SpaceX

Elon Musk is the most morally dubious rocket pioneer since Wernher von Braun. And the most successful. With each, we can critique faults and celebrate achievements. Von Braun, who supervised the V-2 weapon program for the Third Reich and once calculated the number of slave laborers needed for more efficient…

SpaceX needs to rebuild and reinforce its launch pad after the powerful SpaceX Starship tore up hundreds of tons of concrete and dirt. SpaceX will not be using a flame diverter for the rebuilt Starship launch facility. They have been building a massive water-cooled steel plate for the past 3…

Updated April 25, 2023 at 10:48 AM Published April 25, 2023 at 9:37 AM WASHINGTON – The United States Space Force said on Monday that Mr Elon Musk’s SpaceX was granted approval to lease a second rocket launch complex at a military base in California, setting the space company up…

If you buy through links on BGR, we may receive an affiliate commission. Learn more. Elon Musk may consider the destruction of Starship midway through its flight into orbit a success, but the first launch of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket left more than just a field of destruction and a damaged…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's Starship vehicle lifts off on its first full-stack test flight on April 20, 2023. (Image credit: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The most powerful rocket ever built did a number on its launch pad last week. SpaceX's gigantic Starship vehicle lifted off Thursday (April…

Home News Spaceflight An illustration of a Sateliot GroundBreaker satellite in orbit above Earth. (Image credit: Sateliot) SpaceX has launched what is reportedly the first satellite in low Earth orbit (LEO) to operate on the 5G cellular standard. Known as "The GroundBreaker," the relatively small, 22-pound (10-kilogram) orbital data relay,…

Last week’s much-hyped test flight of SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever constructed, ended in a fiery explosion minutes after launch, falling far short of the SpaceX team’s optimistic goal of a watery landing near Hawaii. The truncated conclusion was not entirely surprising, however—SpaceX CEO Elon Musk himself estimated…

The world’s first integration of a Light Fidelity (LiFi) module onto a nanosatellite marks a new era for LiFi technology, HomeGrid Forum said today. Speaking after the successful launch of the INSPIRE SAT-7 nanosatellite by SpaceX earlier this month in California, HomeGrid Forum President Livia Rosu discussed how the implementation…

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The SpaceX Starship has twice the thrust of the Apollo Saturn V rocket. This massive power ripped up the concrete pad and dirt under the rocket in the launch attempt. This means that SpaceX will need to build a flame diverter/deflector. A flame deflector is a sloped construction beneath a…