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It was a one-step-forward, one-step-back kind of day for SpaceX. The Mechazilla tower once again caught the incoming Starship booster in dramatic fashion, but the upper stage was lost due to an anomaly during ascent. Starship lifted off from the Boca Chica launch mount at 5:37 p.m. ET, soaring into…

SpaceX has made an incredible catch of its Super Heavy Booster during the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket, but has lost the vehicle. Launched at 5:37 p.m. ET today, Thursday January 16, from SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas, this is only the second time that the enormous…

Home » Space » SpaceX Starship Flight 7 Launched, BOOSTER CAUGHT, Upper Stage Lost The seventh fully integrated test flight of Starship with its Super Heavy booster launched. the Starship booster is a block 2 version with a lot of improvements. Go for booster return AND IT WAS CAUGHT. Telemetry…

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It was an ordinary night—or so Elon Musk thought. The world was asleep, but Elon was pacing the corridors of his SpaceX headquarters, unable to shake a strange sense of urgency. Sleep had eluded him for days, and an unexplainable weight pressed on his chest. Suddenly, the lights flickered, casting…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Get ready, moon: Two private landers have made it to space and will soon be headed your way! The two lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, and Resilience, built by the Japanese company ispace — lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early this…

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander pictured atop a bespoke payload canister, which encased ispace’s Resilience lunar lander prior to encapsulation inside SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload fairings. Image: SpaceX For the first time in lunar exploration, two robotic landers, from two different nations launched to the Moon on one rocket.…

An ispace engineer inspects the “Tenacious” micro rover in the payload bay of the company’s lunar lander, “Resilience.” (Image credit: ispace) Japanese space exploration company ispace is all set to launch its second lunar lander early Wednesday morning (Jan. 15), but what will the spacecraft carry with it to the…

A Falcon 9 rocket roars away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Jan. 14, 2025, on the Transporter 12 mission. Image: Space X. SpaceX launched 131 payloads Tuesday onboard the company’s 12th smallsat rideshare mission to date. The Transporter-12 mission flew onboard a Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from pad…

Home » Space » What Will New Glenn Do When It Finally is Flying? Blue Origin New Glenn rocket had a scrubbed first launch. Blue Origin will not try again for at least two days and weather will likely cause further days of delays. The rocket seems ready. The problem…