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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A prototype SpaceX Starship vehicle exploded on touchdown after a successful climb and descent. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX launched a prototype Starship rocket Tuesday from its Boca Chica, Texas, flight facility, successfully sending the silver booster up to an altitude of about six miles…

SpaceX SN9 Successful Flight But Crashes Again Brian Wang | February 2, 2021 | SpaceX SN9 Starship matched the SpaceX SN9 Starship flight and also matches the crash on the final attempt at landing. There still seems to be difficulty getting the header tank issues resolved. They needed two of…

Update: Starship completed a successful climb to approximately 10 kilometers altitude and descended horizontally toward the landing site. It appeared to lose control as it was in the process of flipping back to a vertical position and exploded as it bellyflopped onto the landing pad. We’ll have a full report…

Internet users are not happy about Comcast’s data caps, Elon’s Musk is up to some monkey business, and SpaceX could be launching 100 more broadband satellites.  It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Tuesday, February 2, and I’m your host Baneet Braich. Comcast’s…

by Jeff Foust — February 1, 2021 Jared Isaacman sitting inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft. He purchased a Crew Dragon flight for an all-civilian mission called Inspiration4 flying as soon as the fourth quarter of 2021. Credit: Inspiration4 WASHINGTON — An entrepreneur has purchased a SpaceX Crew Dragon mission slated…

Home News Spaceflight Shift4 Payments founder and CEO Jared Isaacman will command a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceflight in late 2021 and is donating three seats to fly with him in support of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. (Image: © SpaceX) SpaceX continues to blaze new paths to the final frontier.…

Elon's pissed over a failure to launch. Image: PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty Images By Jess Joho2021-01-31 21:24:46 UTC Back in December 2020, SpaceX staged a test in which it launched a rocket that's meant to one day bring us closer to Mars than ever before. Then, on its way back…

SpaceX SN9 Launch Monday and Both SN9 and SN10 are on Launch Pads Brian Wang | January 30, 2021 | SpaceX SN9 Starship is targeting a Monday launch. The SN9 and SN10 prototypes are both complete and are on launch pads. Elon Musk plans to drill for natural gas in…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's Starship SN10 prototype (left) rolls out to its test stand while the company's Starship SN9 stands on its own pad at the company's South Texas facility near Boca Chica Village on Jan. 29, 2021. (Image credit: SpaceX/Elon Musk via Twitter)It looks like a scene from science…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's Starship SN9 prototype performs a static-fire test on Jan. 22, 2021. (Image: © Elon Musk via Twitter) We'll have to wait until next month to see SpaceX's latest Starship prototype fly. The company is now targeting Monday (Feb. 1) for a highly anticipated test flight that…