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The Starbase production site is getting an expansion called Starfactory, which should help SpaceX’s plans to produce at least one megastar per day. The construction cost of the Starfactory, which will occupy 9,290 square meters of Starbase’s factory space, is $100 million. After the extremely successful fourth test flight of the Starship (both stages were […]
SpaceX has launched Starship for the fourth time, sending a 122-meter rocket from its Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in southern Texas. The mission was successful for the first time: first, the first stage made a soft landing, and then the ship itself. The fourth test flight had two main goals: to ensure the […]
SpaceX is preparing for the fourth launch of its Starship rocket on June 5, with the main goal of testing a reusable second-stage heat shield to ensure safe re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. This was reported by TechCrunch. During the test, new ceramic tiles will be tested to protect the rocket from extreme temperatures during […]
As SpaceX was preparing for the fourth Starship flight at its facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, a Starship Raptor engine appears to have burned up at SpaceX’s rocket engine test site in McGregor, also in Texas. Local media reported a powerful explosion during the test, with flames engulfing the tower. So far, there have been […]
Engineers of Elon Musk’s company announced on the social network X that SpaceX has completed a launch rehearsal for the fourth Starship flight. The transportation system was fully fueled during the event. Musk commented on SpaceX’s post about the rehearsal of the Starship launch, noting that the next Starship flight will take place in about […]
On March 14, Elon Musk’s company conducted the third test of the Starship transportation system. SpaceX engineers managed to achieve a number of important breakthroughs during the last launch: they opened and closed the Starship’s cargo bay, conducted a fuel pumping test (it is not yet known how successful it was), but failed to bring […]
SpaceX’s Starship megastar, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, reached orbital velocity for the first time on Thursday during its historic third test flight from South Texas. Watch Starship’s third flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/1u46r769Vp – SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2024 Hundreds of spectators, rocket launch enthusiasts and SpaceX fans gathered to watch the […]
SpaceX has announced the loss of the Starship, which was launched as part of the third test flight. The broadcast was conducted on the page in the social network X. The ship was launched from the Texas coast. It was reported that the launch itself and the first phase of the flight went perfectly, the […]
By 2050, Mars will be home to at least a million people. They will be delivered there by a flotilla of Starship spacecraft. This is the biggest dream of the American inventor and billionaire Elon Musk, which he shared a few years ago on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The talented engineer, who is […]
SpaceX plans to conduct 150 space launches this year, up from 96 in 2023, with about a dozen of them to be Starship flights. The head of the company believes that he has found out the reasons for the explosion of the ship during its last, third, test flight, and this allows him to hope […]