The engine static fire occurred yesterday, with SpaceX posting a photo and video of the test to the company's social media with the simple caption, "Static fire of Flight 7 Starship." You may like SpaceX rolls 7th Starship spacecraft out for testing ahead of ne...
Dawn will also measure the tug of gravity from Vesta and Ceres to learn more about their internal structures. By the end of its mission, Dawn will have travelled 3 billion miles (5 billion km) since its launch in September 2007. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and ...
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Senator Cruz:As a country, we're in the midst of a tough week. We're seeing protests. We're seeing a lot of anger. We're seeing violence. And I have to say this launch and y'all's docking is...a powerful inspiration of what we can do when we come together, of the power of...
The crew of SpaceX's first all-civilian mission, Inspiration4, will have to wait just a little longer to go into space as the mission launch has been delayed by a day. The launch date had originally been set for Wednesday, September 15 UTC (Tuesday, September 14 EDT). But this has ...
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But yesterday's test launch saw Grasshopper do something it's never done before: launch straight up about 800 feet, then travel over 300 feet sideways, or laterally, before returning to its original position in mid-air and landing. The lateral maneuver shows off SpaceX's ability to steer ...
Experts at Spaceweather.com suggested that the "magnetic underpinnings of this sunspot are corkscrewing in an unusual way. If opposite magnetic polarities get twisted together too tightly, there could be an X-class solar flare." Lo and behold the sunspot did just that. ...