Starship in orbitSpaceX SpaceX's Starship Flight 6 launched today, missing a second capture landing for the Super Heavy first stage. However, it featured a dramatic daylight soft landing of the Starship second stage in the Indian Ocean—along with a banana. Today's mission experienced an unusually smooth countdown for an experimental development flight, with the final hold...
Super Heavy just before captureSpaceX In an impressive display of space engineering, SpaceX achieved a groundbreaking milestone. At around 7:31 am CT, they successfully captured a Super Heavy booster using their launch tower after it deployed a Starship second stage into orbit and performed a controlled reentry. After following space launches since the Mercury missions, I...
Artist's concept of the USDV docked with the ISSSpaceX NASA has shared details about its plan to deorbit the International Space Station (ISS) after it is decommissioned in 2030. During a press conference, NASA explained that the US Deorbit Vehicle (USDV), which is being built by SpaceX, will be used for this task. The ISS, one...
Credit: Pixabay NASA announced on Tuesday that it has chosen SpaceX to construct a spacecraft that will return the International Space Station to Earth’s atmosphere and guide it to its final resting place in the Pacific Ocean upon its retirement in 2030. Elon Musk’s company has secured a contract potentially worth $843 million to develop and...
Starship sitting atop the launch padspacex Starbase, located in Boca Chica, TX, is undergoing a major upgrade known as Starfactory, set to be operational by this summer with a hefty price tag of $100 million and ambitious objectives. Construction began in February, adding an extra 100,000 square feet (9,290 sq m) of factory space dedicated...
3D printing creates the EVA suit helmet using polycarbonate materials. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has unveiled its latest Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suits, which could debut in low-Earth orbit by the end of summer. These new suits represent an evolution from the current Dragon mission spacesuits, limited to pressurized environments. Unlike their predecessors, the EVA suits enable...
Credit: Pixaobay With the objective of testing different aspects of the rocket, SpaceX has launched for the 3rd time a flight test of Starship. This time, the stainless-steel rocket and its Super Heavy booster, which together stand 400 feet tall (122 meters) filled with more than 10 million pounds of liquid methane and liquid oxygen...
SpaceX has used an unmodified smartphone to post to the X platform via Direct to Cell satellite technologyDepositphotos SpaceX and T-Mobile launched Direct to Cell Starlink satellites in January, aiming for universal coverage. This collaboration began with the Coverage Above and Beyond initiative in August 2022, aiming to provide phone connectivity everywhere by enabling LTE/5G...
The intended duration of Starship's second test flight was approximately 90 minutes, with the plan for it to conclude by splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawai'i. Credit: SpaceX via X On Saturday morning, SpaceX's Starship rocket embarked on its second test flight, soaring into the sky from Starbase in Texas. However, the triumph...
"Starlink Satellites Do Cool Moves Over 50,000 Times to Stay Safe in Space!" credit: Arda Kucukkaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Starlink (SpaceX) Satellites Do Fancy Dance Moves to Stay Safe, But There's a Worrying Problem! SpaceX's Starlink satellites have been doing impressive maneuvers to avoid bumping into other spacecraft and space junk. In just six...
