SpaceX Starship megastar explodes during test flight, but accelerator «saved by Mechazilla tower robotic arms

News Science and space 01-17-2025 at 10:05 comment
The seventh test flight of Starship had two main objectives — to replicate the success of the first stage “landing” and to test the updated version of the spacecraft, but unfortunately, things did not go as planned with the second item for SpaceX.

Elon Musk «revealed a» dialog with a SpaceX engineer in the Diablo IV stream — he made excuses for the «failure with Starship»

News Technologies 10-28-2024 at 09:01 comment
Elon Musk occasionally publishes slices of his Diablo game or launches streams with «rink»However, this time the audience was in for an unplanned surprise.

SpaceX Starship from a rocket caught by Mechazilla exploded after being driven

News Science and space 10-15-2024 at 14:16 comment
On Sunday, the world witnessed an amazing landing of the first stage of the rocket SpaceX to automated «hands» Mechazilla towers. However, the Starship itself exploded after being powered up.

The first stage of the SpaceX Super Heavy rocket successfully landed «in the hands of» the Mechazilla tower

News Science and space 10-13-2024 at 19:06 comment
Today, SpaceX’s Mechazilla service tower «caught the first stage of the Starship’s Super Heavy Flight 5 rocket on its way back.

SpaceX completes Starfactory at the Boca Chica Cosmodrome to produce one Starship per day

News Science and space 06-10-2024 at 10:55 comment
The Starbase production site is getting an expansion called Starfactory, which should help SpaceX’s plans to produce at least one megastar per day.

SpaceX launches the world’s largest rocket, Starship, for the fourth time — both stages were able to be driven (but not without losses)

News Science and space 06-06-2024 at 18:27 comment
The fourth test flight of the SpaceX Starship super-heavy launch vehicle was much more successful than the previous ones — both stages completed their missions and successfully re-entered the atmosphere (although the second stage was damaged) The launch was broadcast live in the account SpaceX on X/Twitter.

SpaceX will try to re-launch Starship on June 6

News Science and space 06-05-2024 at 18:21 comment
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a launch license to SpaceX for the Starship Flight 4 test mission. The launch is currently scheduled for Thursday, June 6. The launch will take place from the SpaceX Starbase near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas.

SpaceX’s Starship Raptor rocket engine explodes during testing

News Science and space 05-24-2024 at 09:49 comment
As SpaceX was preparing for the fourth Starship flight at its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, a Starship Raptor engine appears to have burned up at SpaceX’s rocket engine test site in McGregor, also in Texas.

20 times is not the limit. SpaceX updates Falcon 9 reusability record

News Science and space 04-15-2024 at 13:34 comment
Do you still remember the famous SpaceX skeptic meme «then we’ll talk»?

Starship reaches orbit for the first time, but fails to «land» in the ocean — SpaceX loses spacecraft on approach

News Science and space 03-14-2024 at 19:58 comment
Today’s third test flight of SpaceX’s super-heavy Starship booster (IFT-3 mission) ended in partial success (more than the previous ones) — in fact, the team managed to «go further than ever before». The launch was broadcast live on in the SpaceX account on X/Twitter.

How to watch the third test launch of the SpaceX Starship live

News Science and space 03-14-2024 at 09:22 comment
SpaceX is preparing for the third Starship test flight. The 122nd rocket will launch from the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, at about 14:00 Kyiv time on March 14. This will open a 110-minute launch window.

SpaceX has announced the next Starship launch. It will take place on the day of «Pi» March 14.

News Science and space 03-06-2024 at 15:15 comment
SpaceX has announced the date of the third Starship test flight. It will take place on the day of March 14.

SpaceX reveals the cause of Starship anomalies that caused delays from the FAA

News Science and space 02-27-2024 at 11:44 comment
Three months after preliminary launch of the Starship launch vehicleThe US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has completed an investigation into the incident, which resulted in the loss of a launch vehicle and upper stage in the final phase of flight.

SpaceX has requested permission from the FAA for at least 9 test launches of Starship this year

News Science and space 02-23-2024 at 10:06 comment
SpaceX is approaching the first Starship launch in 2024 from its Starbase in Texas, probably in three weeks. But the company is already pressuring regulators to increase the number of test flights.

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