SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
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SpaceX is inching closer to sending its Starship rocket into low Earth orbit. A newly proposed flight path for the upper stage would see it fly across Florida skies—an unusual route that would seriously disrupt air traffic and raise the risk of debris falling onto populated areas below.
S paceX is another step closer to the 11th flight of the mighty Starship rocket after it completed a test fire of the Ship’s engines on Monday. The test, which took place at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in southern Texas, appeared to go without a hitch, suggesting the 11th Starship flight could take place by the end of this month, or early next.
A busy week on the Space Coast saw two rockets launch within hours of one another as both SpaceX and United Launch Alliance had missions to proliferate a pair of competing satellite constellations.
An evening launch window could provde perfect for those in Arizona wanting to see a SpaceX Falcon 9 soaring overhead in a dark sky after launch from California.
With ally SpaceX, the Italian Space Agency is set to chart and safeguard future astronaut flights to Mars while testing tech to transplant life across the Red Planet.
SpaceX has completed the final major test ahead of a critical flight test of its Mars-bound Starship rocket. The upper stage of the rocket performed a static fire of its six raptor engines while anchored to the launch pad at SpaceX ’s Starbase facility in Texas on Monday, with the launch expected to take place in the coming days or weeks.
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SpaceX launches 3 probes to study space weather and map the boundaries of our solar system (video)
IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 million spacecraft carries 10 different science instruments, which it will use to monitor solar activity as well as study interstellar dust and the solar wind, the stream of charged particles flowing continuously from our sun.
It appears SpaceX has been offering the rare promotion to certain Starlink Residential subscribers in Australia. Might it one day expand to the US?