By Mike Wall, Published by Space.com, 29 April 2022 The FAA has repeatedly pushed back the estimated release date of the final report. We'll have to wait at least another month to see the results of the U.S Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program. The FAA
By Justin Bachmann and Sergio ChapaPublished by Bloomberg, 6 April 2022 Company failed to provide requested info, according to letterElon Musk’s firm is seeking to launch new Starship rocket SpaceX’s application for an expansion of its South Texas launch site was suspended by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after
By Sandra Erwin, Published by SpaceNews, 4 April 2022 Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy: Seeing Starbase 'gives you a lot of ideas of what the future could be' COLORADO SPRINGS – Brig. Gen. Stephen Purdy was in Boca Chica, Texas, last month visiting Starbase. That is SpaceX’s launch and rocket manufacturing
By Jeff Foust, Published by SpaceNews, 26 March 2022 SpaceX showed off a completed Starship/Super Heavy vehicle in February, but that vehicle now appears unlikely to perform the first orbital launch attempt once the FAA awards a license to the company. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration has
By Anthony Cuthbertson, Published by The Independent, 17 March 2022 SpaceX boss Elon Musk has set 2029 as the year humans will make it to Mars aboard his company’s Starship rocket. The tech billionaire had previously hoped to make the first crewed missions to the Red Planet in either 2024
By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Universe Today, 18 March 2022 The path back to the moon is long and fraught with danger, both in the real, physical sense and also in the contractual, legal sense. NASA, the agency sponsoring the largest government-backed lunar program, Artemis, has already been feeling the
By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Universe Today, 14 March 2022 This will likely come as a surprise to no one who has closely watched the development of NASA’s next giant rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), but it’s going to be expensive to use. Like, really expensive – to the
