Starship on launch pad By Jackie Wattles, Published by CNN, 1 February 2025 It was a typical balmy afternoon across the tropical islands that lie southeast of Florida, where tens of thousands of tourists flock this time of year for winter break. But on January 16, just after sundown, a
Starship on launch pad By William Harwood, Published by yahoo! news, 17 January 2025 The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered SpaceX to carry out a formal investigation into the breakup of its Starship rocket during a test flight Thursday that sent a spectacular shower of flaming debris plummeting back to
Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2024 By Lynda Williams, Published by Honolulu Civil Beat, 10 January 2025 Federal authorities have not required a thorough review, or consultation with Hawaiian stakeholders, for Starshipʻs proposed landing zones. Since 2022, Elon Musk and SpaceX has requested larger and larger landing areas near Hawai‘i for their experimental
By Lynda Williams, Published by Counter Punch, 12 December 2024 On April 20, 2023, SpaceX’s Starship—the largest and most powerful rocket ever built—exploded just four minutes after liftoff from its Boca Chica spaceport in Texas. While CEO Elon Musk touted the mission as a success for clearing the launch pad,
SpaceX’s Starship rocket performs a hot stage separation during a flight test on 18 November, 2023 (SpaceX) By Darren Orf, Published by Popular Mechanics, 5 September 2024 We learned something, though. In mid-November 2023, a disastrous SpaceX launch, which saw the explosion of not one but two rockets, offered a
Starship flies off the launch pad during IFT-3. (Source: Elon Musk /Twitter (X)) By Keith Cooper, Published by Space.com, 10 July 2024 Elon Musk's SpaceX hopes to launch up to 44 flights of Starship each year. SpaceX's plans to launch its Starship–Super Heavy two-stage rocket 44 times per year from
The far side of the moon beyond the Orion spacecraft in an image taken on the sixth day of the Artemis I mission in November. Photograph: Nasa/EPA By Eric Berger, Published by arsTechnica, 19 May 2024 If it were to happen, a revised Artemis III mission could echo Apollo 9
The first mission of the Polaris program, Polaris Dawn, will include the first spacewalk on a commercial mission. Credit: Polaris Program By Seth Kurkowski, Published by Space Explored, 14 April 2024 Things are slowly falling into place for the Polaris Program‘s first mission, Polaris Dawn. The mission is nearing milestones that might
