Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship launched on ninth test flight after last two blew up

[ad_1] Starship, the futuristic SpaceX rocket vehicle on which Elon Musk’s ambitions for multiplanetary travel are riding, roared into the sky from Texas on Tuesday on its ninth uncrewed test launch, aiming for a clean flight after the last two attempts ended in explosive failure. The two-stage spacecraft, consisting of the Starship vessel mounted atop […]

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SpaceX launches first Falcon Heavy mission since 2019 from Florida

[ad_1] SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the world’s most-powerful active rocket, lifted off on Tuesday for the first time in more than three years through dense fog at Florida’s Cape Canaveral, with Elon Musk’s company sending satellites into orbit for the U.S. Space Force. The rocket system, consisting of three Falcon 9 boosters strapped side-by-side, took off […]

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SpaceX capsule heads to space station ferrying NASA crew and Russian

[ad_1] A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida on Wednesday carrying the next long-term International Space Station crew, with a Russian cosmonaut, two Americans and a Japanese astronaut flying together in a demonstration of U.S.-Russian teamwork in space despite Ukraine war tensions. A high-ranking official of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said shortly after […]

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SpaceX whizzes past annual launch record with Starlink mission

[ad_1] Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Friday broke its record for the number of rockets launched in a calendar year, topping last year’s slate of 31 missions amid a whirlwind campaign to launch its own internet satellites into orbit. SpaceX’s 32nd launch of 2022 using its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket comes as the company races to […]

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