The pace of rocket launches has ballooned in recent years, making it a challenge to know what mission is launching and when. In this launch guide, the Space.com news team aims to keep you up to date on the latest rocket launches. If there is a rocket launch today, you'll find details...
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SpaceX's next step is a large rocket called Starship, which would have more than double the thrust of Falcon Heavy. It is a next-generation rocket designed to surpass the power of the Saturn V rockets that initially sent astronauts to the moon. Some Starships will be designed for Mars and...
What Is Starship? The vessel we currently refer to as "Starship" used to be known as the BFR (Big Falcon Rocket) and ITS (Interplanetary Transport System). Along with the name change, SpaceX clarified its vision for moving all its operations to the Starship platform...someday. At its mo...
Despite the craft’s “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” the team is ready to learn and keep moving forward.SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft just blew up. After a delayed launch on Monday due to a frozen pressurant valve, the rocket and team alike were back on the launch pad in Texas this...
SpaceX completed its seventh launch of the Starship rocket, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit and a NASA astronaut stuck in space went on her first spacewalk in seven months. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood brea
SpaceX launches Starship on its eighth flight. SpaceX launched the eighth full-scale test flight of its enormous Starship rocket on Thursday evening after receiving regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. The test flight sought a repeat of what SpaceX hoped to ...
SpaceX is looking to do the same with its Starship system — guiding the Super Heavy booster that launches the Starship spacecraft toward orbit back to a landing on terra firma. The 33 Raptor rocket engines affixed to the bottom of the Super Heavy rocket booster are seen firing as SpaceX ...
Starlab is being designed to be deployed to LEO in a single launch. That approach stands in stark contrast to the way the ISS was deployed which took multiple launches over several years. The SpaceX Starship rocket with a heavy-lift capacity will carry out the launch. SpaceX is designing ...
The revenue brought in from Starlink can help "the company attract large amounts of capital at attractive rates," says the Morgan Stanley report. This could fund further development of more complex launches, such as Starship, a rocket that Musk says could eventually take people to Mars. ...