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NASA and its industry partners are preparing for next year’s Artemis III demonstration mission by completing new wind tunnel tests on SpaceX’s Super Heavy Version 3 rocket booster. The tests, conducted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, focused on better understanding the extreme aerodynamic forces the rocket…

FILE - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A with a payload of a pair of lunar landers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Jan. 15, 2025. John Raoux/AP Photo/John Raoux CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision…

SpaceX is making minihard, an improved modular 220K GB300 data center. It will be small building to the right of Macrohard and Macrohardrr. It is the most important thing Elon and SpaceXAI has said about its infrastructure this year. Minihard is about 25% of the floor area of Macrohardrr but…

A streak shot of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from liftoff through landing at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the NROL-95 mission on July 30, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update July 30, 10:27 a.m. EDT (1427 UTC): The NRO confirms its payload was deployed. A classified payload for the…

A visualization of the Roman Space Telescope in space. (Image credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio) A major space observatory is just one month away from leaving this planet. NASA scientists got together Wednesday (July 29) to share a status update on the Nancy Grace Roman Space…

A quantitative model of how Starship’s cost per kilogram falls as booster life goes from 5 to 30 flights, ship life from 1 to 10, and payload from 100 to 200 tonnes — and why the last flight of every ship is the cheapest kilogram in the system. Starship will…

SpaceX launched a secret reconnaissance mission for the U.S. government early on Thursday morning (July 30). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, kicking off the mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) called NROL-95. The launch occurred at 3:10 a.m.…

SpaceX Starship flight 13 shows white powder on the surface of the heat shield. The flaps that were in the water showed a lot of the powder washes off. The theory would be that there were some broken tiles and some tiles had plasma penetrations that cause some ablative damage.…

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The 13th test flight of SpaceX's Starship megarocket went pretty well — and provided some amazing visuals, too. Flight 13 launched on Friday (July 24), sending the 408-foot-tall (124 meters) Starship Version 3 (V3) vehicle aloft from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas. Starship's Super Heavy booster had some engine…