Overseen by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and US President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November 2024 from its launch site at Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. The flight was again...
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SpaceX has taken a dramatic leap towards its dream of placing the first humans on Mars after the company successfully returned a 232-foot-tall (71-metre) booster to its launchpad on its first attempt. The Starship Super Heavy Test Flight 5 (IFT-5) (Ship 30 upper stage...
For the third consecutive month, SpaceX has brought launches of its Falcon 9 rocket to a temporary halt after an anomaly occurred on its latest crewed mission. What happened? Crew-9 was launched aboard a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 at 17:17 (GMT) on 28 September from Cape...
The first commercially funded spacewalk mission, Polaris Dawn, was launched at 0923 GMT on 10 September by a Falcon 9v1.2 Block 5 rocket. The four private astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon capsule included the mission’s sponsor, billionaire businessman Jared Isaacman....
In what must feel like a déjà vu moment for SpaceX, the prolific rocket launcher has found its Falcon 9 rockets grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) after one of them lost a booster in a failed landing. At 0748 GMT on 28 August, a Falcon 9 v1.2FT...
