"Unfortunately, we were not able to stick the landing today," said SpaceX's launch commentator, who described the loss as "a bummer." It was the first unsuccessful booster recovery for SpaceX since the sixth Starlink mission in March 2020. Since then, the California rocket builder carried o...
Because SpaceX was launching at the Cape and not on a drone ship in the ocean, the company was able to track almost every stage of the landing using cameras on the Falcon 9 booster and off. Tweet may have been deleted One camera even caught the first stage of the Falcon 9 as it mad...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just set a new reusability record, on what may have been its final flight. The Falcon 9 launched 21 of SpaceX's Starlink satellites today (Aug. 28), lifting off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:48 a.m. EDT (0748 GMT). It was the ...
SpaceX will try to land a rocket on a ship at sea for the third time in less than two months on Friday (May 27), and you can watch the exciting spaceflight action live.
SpaceX wants to eventually be able to mass produce reusable rockets to cut down on the cost of launching to space, which could revolutionize the space industry. For now, most rockets burn up in the atmosphere after delivering space crafts into orbit, but SpaceX is working towards recycling th...
Today's failed attempt wasn't a big surprise. Musk has warned in the past that the landing had a 50-50 chance of working out. SpaceX even compared the feat to balancing "a rubber broomstick on your hand in the middle of a wind storm" backin December, right beforecanceling the first ...
SpaceX has a video on X (formerly Twitter) showing the test firing. Remove All Ads on Universe Today Join our Patreon for as little as $3! Get the ad-free experience for life NASA saidthat one challenge that differentiates Artemis missions from those in low Earth orbit is that the ...
"We just had an incredible day today," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said during a live webcast of the launch. "The first reflight of an orbital class booster did its mission perfectly, dropped off the second stage, came back and landed on the droneship, right in the bullseye." ...
On the morning of June 6th,SpaceXsuccessfully landed the most powerful rocket ever built,Starship, from orbit. Sign up for the KFYO Newsletter Takeoffoccurred around 7:50 this morning near Boca Chica, TX, until re-entering Earth's atmosphere about an hour later and successfully landing on a ...
Wooster reiterated that SpaceX is still targeting the early 2020s for its first true BFR missions to Mars, perhaps less than five years from today. He further discussed prospective landing locations on the planet, emphasizing a need for a smooth landing site, easy access to on or near-surface...