Earlier, in May of this year, the MIRA I was to be the first aerospike flight test, butcrashed during take off. Polaris went ahead and built the largerMIRA II and IIIstating "At Polaris, we are advancing our project at an exceptionally rapid pace. To facilitate such swift progress, we ...
The flight test was exciting for those who witnessed the fully integratedSpaceX Starshipand Super Heavy rocket liftoff from the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica,Texas.At 8:33 a.m. CDT, Starship lifted off, clearing the pad and beach as the vehicle began its nominal flight path. Shortly after,...
SpaceX sent its massive Starship up in a monumental test flight before the world's most powerful rocket exploded. (Courtesy: SpaceX)
@astrobotic Breaking news! Our Griffin lander will deliver AstroLab's FLIP rover to the Nobile Region of the lunar south pole as part of Griffin Mission One. Welcome to the mission, FLIP! 🚀🌕Rocket Lab QPS-SAR-12 2025 Launch Complex 1 (LC-1) | Māhia Peninsula New Zealand • Elect...
SpaceX's Starship rocket, the most powerful ever built, exploded minutes after launching on its maiden flight. CBS News' Mark Strassmann shows us why SpaceX still considers the test flight a success.
SpaceX emphasizes that it tries to build "on what we've learned from previous flights" in its approach to developing the massive rocket. SpaceX's Starship lifts off from Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024 during the rocket's fifth flight test. ...
NASA’s moon rocket returned to the safety of its hangar Tuesday as Hurricane Ian approachedFlorida, its launch now unlikely before mid-November. Instead of trying to send it on its first test flight, the launch team moved the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket off the pad at Kennedy Space...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on the USSF-124 mission for the U.S. Space Force and Missile Defense Agency in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2024. Joe Skipper | Reuters Falcon 9 has been on an unrivaled run of success for nearly a decade, chocking up more than 300 consec...
SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launchpad in South Texas at 9:33 a.m. ET Thursday but exploded midair before stage separation. Thursday’s launch marked the vehicle’s historic first test flight. “As if the flight test was not exciting enough, ...
Losing the booster isn’t a huge setback. Initially, Starship continued moving along just fine after breaking away from Super Heavy. A plume forms as SpaceX's Starship separates from its booster during a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Saturday, November 18. ...