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Elon Musk has revealed some information about the first orbital flight of the Starship rocket system. As it turned out, the explosion was delayed. SpaceX launched the Starship spacecraft with a Super Heavy rocket (in both cases, prototypes were used) on April 20. The test went wrong from the very beginning. During the launch, the […]
It looks like the first orbital flight of the Starship spacecraft is just around the corner. SpaceX has already sent it to the launch pad in Texas. Elon Musk has postponed the date of the spacecraft’s orbital flight several times. Recently, the SpaceX CEO said that the first flight would be a failure with a […]
The head of the SpaceX company once again reminded about the planned debut launch of the Starship spacecraft. The first commercial application is expected in 2025. What is known Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that the first test launch of Starship will take place in March 2023, if all tests are successful. If the schedule […]
SpaceX continues to prepare the Starship for its first test flight, which does not appear to take place this year. However, everyone is sure that preparations for landing on the moon are going according to plan. Bill Nelson, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), said that he is in constant contact with […]
A launch vehicle developed by the SpaceX company for flights of a new generation of ships caught fire during ground tests taking place in Texas. It is likely that because of this, the launch of the Starship ship into orbit, planned by the company’s founder Elon Musk (Elon Musk) this year, will have to be […]
Elon Musk gave a long interview at the Future of the Car conference for the Financial Times, where he talked about Tesla’s plans. In particular, we talked about another company of billionaires – SpaceX. Musk believes that SpaceX could send the Starship unmanned spacecraft to Mars “in 3-5 years.” But before that, the company must […]
SpaceX will no longer produce new capsules for astronauts of Crew Dragon missions, reports Reuters about the head of the company. Now all resources will be directed to the creation of the next-generation spacecraft. “We are finishing our last (capsule), but we are still producing components for repairs.” — SpaceX President Gwen Shotwell The Crew […]
Last time, the US Federal Aviation Administration promised to issue an opinion on the environmental review – without which it is impossible to proceed to full-fledged testing of the Starship spacecraft – no later than March 25. The new deadline is April 29. If delays from state power continue, SpaceX will have to move from […]
Orbital tests of the next-generation spacecraft, which the private company SpaceX is building in Texas, may take place in May. As Elon Musk wrote on Twitter, The Raptor engines will be ready in April, it will take another month to install and debug them, after which the Super Heavy launch vehicle will be able to […]