For Mr. Musk, Starship is really a Mars ship. He envisions a fleet of Starships carrying settlers to the Red Planet. 对马斯克来说,“星舰”实际上是一艘火星飞船。他展望着组建一支将定居者运往这颗红色星球的“星舰”飞船舰队。 For NASA, the vehicle is to be a lunar lander, carrying astronauts...
Shortly after launch, the first-stage booster rocket was separated(分离) from Crew Dragon. It landed on a drone(无人机) ship floatingon the Atlantic Ocean about 10 minutes after taking off.The Crew Dragon spacecraft, which was also named Resilience, reached the International Space Stationaround...
Overall, the test demonstrated enormous improvement over the third flight on March 14, when the extreme heat caused by air friction destroyed the ship early in its path back to Earth. Tweet may have been deleted NASA will depend on Musk's rocket company to ferry astronauts to the lunar surfa...
Starship will once again try to send back the booster for mid-air capture with the launch tower's so-called "chopsticks" and have a controlled splash down of the spacecraft in the Indian Ocean. The switch to an afternoon liftoff should enable the ship to reenter the atmosphere in daylight...
SpaceX postponed the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a used Dragon cargo ship for NASA Friday (May 3) due to an issue with the mission's drone ship landing pad in the Atlantic Ocean. The next launch try will be Saturday, May 4.
NASA%27s Space Launch System: A New Opportunity for CubeSats Over the past four years, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has built and tested the Triana observatory, which will be the first Earth observing science satellite to take advantage of the unique perspective offered by a Lissajous orb...
"The ship has been lost. So, no splashdown today," said SpaceX's Dan Huot. "But again, it's incredible to see how much further we got this time around." Two previous test flights of Starship last year ended in explosions minutes after liftoff. ...
The launching was a thrilling moment for SpaceX employees, NASA workers, Space Coast residents and President Trump, who traveled to the launch site despite the questionable weather forecast to witness the dawn of a new era in space travel. ...
SpaceX officials have described the two-part rocket ship – which stands 120 meters high – as the largest and most powerful space vehicle ever built. The vehicle is by far more powerful than any rockets built by the American sp...
That’s true at NASA launch sites on the East Coast and West Coast. But SpaceX is launching from its own private spaceport on Texas’ southern tip. The company is still receiving some government weather support, but it’s up to the company to make the call on whether to launch. And ...