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SpaceX has posted a dramatic video of the first firing of its Raptor vacuum engine integrated onto a Starship prototype. Starship is a reusable launch system being developed by Elon Musk's company to carry people and cargo to the moon, Mars, and beyond. The firing test of the Raptor vacuum…

by Jeff Foust — October 22, 2021 SpaceX's Starship Ship 20 vehicle fires a Raptor engine during an Oct. 21 static-fire test. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX performed a static-fire test of a Starship vehicle Oct. 21 as debate continues about an environmental assessment of the company’s proposed launch operations…

The DART spacecraft is moved into a shipping container last month at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman A small spacecraft built for a NASA asteroid defense experiment arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California earlier this month and is ready for fueling,…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts (from left) Matthias Maurer, Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron. Credit: SpaceX (Image credit: SpaceX) NASA's next space station launch is set for Halloween and will put four more astronauts into space on a SpaceX rocket. The Crew-3 launch is scheduled for Sunday,…

In July 2021, ByteDance reached a valuation of $425 billion for new private equity investors, according to Chinese technology news portal 36Kr. 36Kr showed three listings of stakes for sale in ByteDance. In 2020, ByteDance more than doubled revenue to $34.3 billion. It posted $2.1 billion in operating losses and…

European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer and NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron pose for a photo during training at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX The astronauts who will ride SpaceX’s newest Dragon spaceship into orbit later this month said Thursday they named their spacecraft…

Home News Skywatching SpaceX's Dragon capsule streaks across the evening sky on Sept. 30, 2021, as it returned to Earth from a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. (Image credit: SpaceX) Late Thursday night (Sept. 30) in the southeastern United States, anybody looking up could have glimpsed a…

A view of the International Space Station captured Sept. 28 by a cosmonaut on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft. Credit: Roscosmos Photos taken by a Russian cosmonaut Tuesday from a Soyuz spacecraft show new exterior views of the International Space Station, with two SpaceX Dragon spaceships, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus supply…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft returned to Earth Thursday night (Sept. 30), packed full of science experiments after one month at the International Space Station. The capsule, carrying 4,600 pounds (2,900 kilograms) of science experiments and other gear, undocked at 9:12 a.m. EDT (1312 GMT) on Thursday, while…

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