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SpaceX wants to take over a Florida launch pad from rival ULA

SpaceX wants to take over a Florida launch pad from rival...

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Enlarge / SpaceX's fully-stacked Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster on a launch pad in South Texas. One of the largest launch pads at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will become vacant later this year after the final flight of United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy rocket. SpaceX is looking to make the sprawling facility…
Rocket Report: Falcon 9 flies for 300th time; an intriguing launch from Russia

Rocket Report: Falcon 9 flies for 300th time; an intriguing launch...

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Enlarge / The upper stage for the first Ariane 6 flight vehicle is seen inside its factory in Bremen, Germany. The upper stage's hydrogen-fueled Vinci engine is visible in this image. Welcome to Edition 6.31 of the Rocket Report! Photographers at Cape Canaveral, Florida, noticed a change to the spaceport's skyline this week. Blue Origin…
Rocket Report: SpaceX at the service of a rival; Endeavour goes vertical

Rocket Report: SpaceX at the service of a rival; Endeavour goes...

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Enlarge / Space shuttle Endeavour, seen here in protective wrapping, was mounted on an external tank and inert solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center. Welcome to Edition 6.29 of the Rocket Report! Right now, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is the only US launch vehicle offering crew or cargo service to the International Space…
Starlab—with half the volume of the ISS—will fit inside Starship’s payload bay

Starlab—with half the volume of the ISS—will fit inside Starship’s payload...

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Enlarge / An artist's concept of the Starlab space station.Starlab LLC The Starlab commercial space station will launch on SpaceX's Starship rocket, officials said this week. Starlab is a joint venture between the US-based Voyager Space and the European-based multinational aerospace corporation Airbus. The venture is building a large station with a habitable volume equivalent…
Rocket Report: A new estimate of Starship costs; Japan launches spy satellite

Rocket Report: A new estimate of Starship costs; Japan launches spy...

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Enlarge / An H-IIA rocket lifts off with the IGS Optical-8 spy satellite.Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Welcome to Edition 6.27 of the Rocket Report! This week, we discuss an intriguing new report looking at Starship. Most fascinating, the report covers SpaceX's costs to build a Starship and how these costs will come down as the company…
Elon Musk’s recent all-hands meeting at SpaceX was full of interesting news

Elon Musk’s recent all-hands meeting at SpaceX was full of interesting...

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Enlarge / Elon Musk, SpaceX's founder and CEO, recently held an all-hands meeting with employees at the company's Starbase facility in South Texas.SpaceX Last year was unquestionably the best year in SpaceX's history, CEO Elon Musk told his employees during an all-hands meeting in South Texas last week. There were 96 flights of SpaceX's Falcon…
Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s

Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing...

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Enlarge / Ship 28, the Starship for SpaceX's next full-scale test flight, fires up one of its engines on December 29 in Texas.SpaceX It's no secret that Elon Musk has big ambitions for SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket. This is the vehicle that, with plenty of permutations and upgrades, Musk says will ferry cargo and people across…
SpaceX completes static fire test in push toward third Starship launch

SpaceX completes static fire test in push toward third Starship launch

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Enlarge / Ship 28 is seen after being moved to SpaceX's launch site in South Texas.SpaceX Just one month after the second flight of its massive Starship rocket, SpaceX is making progress toward a third attempt. On Wednesday, at 1:37 pm local time in South Texas, the company performed a static fire test of the…
NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech

NASA says SpaceX’s next Starship flight could test refueling tech

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Enlarge / A crane is attached to one of several Starship test vehicles at SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. This vehicle, called Ship 28, could launch on the next Starship test flight. SpaceX and NASA could take a tentative step toward orbital refueling on the next test flight of Starship, but the US space…
Sorry, doubters: Starship actually had a remarkably successful flight

Sorry, doubters: Starship actually had a remarkably successful flight

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Enlarge / Starship launched on Saturday with all 33 Raptor engines burning nominally.SpaceX SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas—Starship launches are clarifying events. Pretty quickly after liftoff you find out who understands the rocket business, and who are the casual observers bereft of a clue. Before I had even left the launch viewing area in South Padre…

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