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What just happened? Starship SN10, SpaceX's third prototype subjected to a high-altitude test flight following two failed attempts with the SN8 and SN9, became its first rocket to make it back to the ground in one piece. However, a fire broke out upon touchdown, and around eight minutes later, the…

MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer March 4, 2021Updated: March 4, 2021 11:30 a.m. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s futuristic Starship looked like it aced a touchdown Wednesday, but then exploded on the landing pad with so much force that it was hurled into the air. The failure occurred just minutes after…

A Falcon 9 rocket disappears in a blanket of clouds shortly after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center early Thursday. Credit: SpaceXLaunching through a blanket of low-hanging clouds and light mist, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered into the sky over Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday and delivered 60 more…

by Jeff Foust — March 4, 2021 A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off March 4 carrying 60 Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a new set of Starlink satellites and landed the booster March 4, two and a half weeks after the landing failed…

Updated / Thursday, 4 Mar 2021 08:11 As seen on SpaceX video, the rocket appeared to have otherwise landed properly after its flight (Pic: SpaceX YouTube) An unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded on the ground after carrying out what had seemed to be a successful flight and landing. It was the third…

SpaceX "successfully" landed a high altitude test flight of their Starship SN10 Wednesday morning and it was so incredibly done it looks like CGI. Like so much like CGI if it wasn't SpaceX you would 100% think this was faked footage. Similar to the high-altitude flight tests of Starship SN8…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's latest Starship prototype went out in a blaze of glory. The Starship SN10 spacecraft touched down successfully after a high-altitude test flight today (March 3), a major milestone for the company and its crewed Mars ambitions. But the vehicle didn't manage to hold itself together, exploding…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center before launching in May 2020 with the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission. Credit: NASA/Bill IngallsLaunch companies and U.S. Space Force range officials at Cape Canaveral are reassessing long-standing weather rules, looking at beefing up rocket defenses against…

The latest prototype of SpaceX’s  Starship launch vehicle — Starship SN10 — took off from the company’s South Texas test site and flew to an altitude of more than 30,000 feet Wednesday, then descended to a controlled vertical landing after two previous test vehicles crashed at touchdown. Minutes later, the…

Yusaku Maezawa is inviting people to join him on a Moon voyage aboard Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket in 2023 Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for eight people to join him on the first civilian lunar flight on SpaceX in 2023. Reuters If making it to the Moon has been an…