SpaceX has also won a $2.9 billion contract with NASA to develop the Starship into a human-rated lander for the agency’s Artemis moon missions. A moon derivative of the Starship, assisted by Starship refueling tankers, will be utilized for a lunar landing with astronauts, an event NASA say...
NASA is interested in Starship, too. The agency has tapped SpaceX to provide the Human Landing System (HLS) for its upcoming Artemis moon missions. The timeline for these missions is still unclear as it relies on the Space Launch System (SLS), which finally flew the uncrewed Artemis I miss...
Being the first to land an orbital-class rocket’s first stage on an ocean platform. Becoming the first private company to send humans into orbit. The engineers and technicians at SpaceX have continued to innovate. In 2019, the company launched 60 satellites that would become the first of an...
"It is rocket science, on ludicrous mode." NASA tapped SpaceX to develop a human landing system version of Starship.Credit: SpaceX How will NASA use Starship? NASA plans to use Starship to land astronauts on the moon duringArtemis III and IV, two upcoming missions which could come as earl...
Thursday's orbital flight test was supposed to be a crucial demonstration of hardware NASA will depend on to get humans back on the moon in the next few years. The space agency has a $4 billion contract with SpaceX to use Starships to land astronauts on the moon during Artemis III and ...
Welp, SpaceX's Starship just blew up. The revolutionary spacecraft experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” just after takeoff.
About four minutes after SpaceX's gargantuan rocket lifted from its Texas launch pad, it burst into a fireball over the Gulf of Mexico, never reaching space. Though SpaceX hasn't shared many details yet about what happened during Starship's maiden voyage, one fact is known: It was ...