The US will face high costs and “monster” complexities to realise the Trump administration’s proposed “Golden Dome” missile defence shield designed in response to China’s expanding arsenal, according to analysts. Citing six sources familiar with the matter, Reuters reported last week that SpaceX, the rocket and satellite company run by Elon Musk, who is also…
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart. This time, wreckage from the latest explosion was seen streaming from the skies over…
Published on Jan 17, 2025 09:31 AM IST SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight. However, the top section of the rocket was lost, SpaceX succeeded in another complicated maneuver, bringing the spacecraft’s Super Heavy lower portion back down to Earth and catching it in midair using giant mechanical arms. Explaining…
Topline SpaceX launched Starship on Thursday for a seventh test flight, after weather concerns pushed back an experiment that will feature the spacecraft’s first payload deployment test, and while it successfully caught the Super Heavy Booster, SpaceX lost communication with Starship shortly after. SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship stands ready for a test flight from Starbase…
Jeff Bezos just scored a huge win: Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit. Now it’s the turn of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which is set to launch Starship for the seventh time later Thursday. The two billionaires are locked in a race to dominate the global space industry. Ahead of the most…
AliExpress Starship China has showed off a concept for its upcoming Long March 9, a ultra heavy-lift reusable rocket designed to deliver the first Chinese astronauts to the surface of the Moon in the 2030s. And as Ars Technica reports, its design is an unabashed ripoff of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, also currently in development. A…
Elon Musk wants his new rocket to revolutionise spaceflight. And that rocket, Starship, is now the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever built. It’s also designed to be fully and rapidly reusable. His private company SpaceX, which is behind the creation, is hoping to develop a spaceship that can be used more like a plane…
Elon Musk set out SpaceX’s timeline for getting humanity to Mars this week. He said SpaceX plans to send five Starship rockets to Mars in 2026, with crewed missions following two to four years later. Experts say SpaceX will face major engineering and regulatory challenges. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a…
Elon Musk announced on Sunday that SpaceX is preparing to launch around five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars over the next two years.In a post on social media platform X, Musk confirmed the timeline, saying that these missions will coincide with the next Earth-Mars transfer window, set to open in two years.“No matter what happens…