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As IFT-4 prepares for launch, Starship’s future is coming into focus
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32 After the historic IFT-3 launch in March, the Starship program is proceeding with plans to fly Ship 29 and Booster 11 ...
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites could be eroding Earth’s magnetic field and slowly poisoning us all, ex-NASA scientist warns
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An ex-NASA physicist warns cheap satellite ‘megaconstellations’ like Elon Musk’s Starlink could disrupt Earth’s magnetosphere exposing all life to deadly cosmic rays. Dr. ...
SpaceX launches U.S. military weather monitoring satellite
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COLORADO SPRINGS — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 11 launched a U.S. Space Force weather monitoring satellite. The vehicle lifted ...
Booster 11 Rollout for Engine Testing as Starbase Continues to Change
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14 Peparations for the fourth flight of Starship are in full swing, with Ship 29 having completed its engine testing campaign, while ...
Spectacular SpaceX launch illuminates the California evening sky sending 22 Starlink satellites into space
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By James Gordon For Dailymail.com 07:02 02 Apr 2024, updated 12:13 02 Apr 2024 Share or comment on this article: The skies ...
Elon Musk’s Mars colony plan is ‘dangerous illusion’, says Astronomer Royal
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In 2016, Musk announced plans to build a settlement on Mars and said that he hoped to make humans a multiplanetary species. ...
SpaceX’s 30th resupply mission uses new access tower at SLC-40 for the first time
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15 SpaceX has debuted a new capability on their 30th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. For the first time, ...
Launch providers look for competitive advantages in era of transition
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WASHINGTON — The launch industry is negotiating a transition into new families of launch vehicles, working to bring additional capacity into the ...
China building 20-storey nuclear space engine to power mission to Mars…with boffins ordered to ‘innovate or DIE’
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CHINA has built a 20-storey tall nuclear space engine to power a mission to Mars. Boffins have reportedly been ordered to “innovate” ...
SpaceX planning rapid turnaround for next Starship flight
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WASHINGTON — SpaceX hopes to conduct the next launch of its Starship vehicle as soon as early May, a schedule that will ...