1 month ago NASA, SpaceX prepare to launch capsule to bring home Starliner astronauts Saturday’s scheduled launch of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will go up with two empty seats in the capsule to return astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth....
SpaceX leadership repeatedly stressed the experimental nature of the launch and said any result that involved Starship getting off the launchpad would be a success. The rocket flew for nearly 4 minutes andsuccessfully separatedfrom the Super Heavy booster, a key in-flight milestone, before suffering...
They were going to try again with the next launch, in February, but it was scratched because of weather. They finally got a second chance to try in April, and this happened (the video is sped up):32 Just…almost…got it…but then the rocket tipped over like an asshole and exploded...
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SpaceX engineers now have the task ahead to understand why the Starship vehicle detonated itself using its flight termination system just before completing its launch burn. The company has said it will also study Super Heavy's explosion so future iterations of the vehicle can be returned to Earth...
If the test flight went as planned, SpaceX said Starship would launch from Texas and fly around theEarth, landing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast ofHawaiiabout 1.5 hours after liftoff. After Starship's successful takeoff, the separation from the Super Heavy booster ended in an explosion sh...
The test flight did mark progress compared with the last test seven months ago, whichended in an explosiona few minutes after liftoff,raining debris over the nearby areaand destroying its launch pad. Advertisement That explosion, too, was triggered by the rocket...
After the launch and subsequent midair explosion of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, Rob Nixon said particles fell from the sky on Thursday. He was about six miles from the SpaceX launch facility, at the Port Isabel-San Benito Navigation District area in Port Isabel, Texas. Nixon said the wet...