On Saturday, May 30, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon’s second demonstration(Demo-2)mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the spacecraft. Dragon autonomously docked to the Internatio...
By Reuters | May 11, 2024, at 3:09 p.m. Save More Musk Sees Fourth Flight of SpaceX's Starship in 3-5 Weeks More Reuters SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft, atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket, lifts off on its third launch from the company's Boca Chica l...
SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft, atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket, lifts off on its third launch from the company's Boca Chica launchpad on an uncrewed test flight, near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. March 14, 2024. Cheney Orr | Reuters The Federal Aviation Administration may i...
Working under first 2CLPS contractsawarded in 31 May 2019, Astrobotic of Pittsburgh PA and Intuitive Machines of Houston TX now in countdown mode to Moon launch; Astrobotic awaiting ULA readiness to ship Peregrine lander to KSC as Vulcan Centaur being prepped forNET 24 Dec launchon inaugural Cer...
Iridium representatives said Monday (May 14) that the launch would slip by two days, to give SpaceX time to deal with a "minor processing issue" associated with the two-stage Falcon 9,according to Spaceflight Now. And yesterday (May 15), Iridium announced that range issues at Vandenberg had...
While SpaceX does have launch windows on Thursday and Friday evening (March 13 and March 14), any attempts on those days will hing e on how fast the company can pinpoint and fix the hydraulic issues. NASA has ended its livestream at this point, so our live launch day coverage will con...
The private company plans to launch reusable Starships atop still-in-the-works rockets, carrying cargo or crew not only to low-Earth orbit but also the moon and Musk's most desirable destination, Mars. The entire stack will stretch nearly 400 feet (120 meters). On Sunday, SpaceX sa...
The launchpad appears to have avoided a "rock tornado" Members of an unaffiliated cleanup crew pick up debris around SpaceX Starbase after the Starship launch near Brownsville, Texas, on March 14. Jackie Wattles/CNN During a visit to the Starship launchpad after Thursday’s test flight, at ...
It's not the first time for SpaceXto launch astronauts into space.B. SpaceX launched astronauts intospace on May 30.C. SpaceX is a government agency.D. The launch kicked off SpaceX'sDemo-2 mission.2. When did NASA make a decisionto rely on private companies to takeastronauts into ...
Later, the Starship spacecraft may attempt something similar, making use of a belly flop maneuver as it heads in for landing over an hour into its flight. GO DEEPER Was the explosive first Starship test launch a ‘success’? GO DEEPER Was the explosive first Starship test launch a ‘succe...