Preparations are taking place at Starbase for the upcoming second Starship test flight, with Booster 9 expected to return to the launch site in the coming days following the installation of its hot staging ring. Future vehicles are also being prepared for flight. At the same time, long-term aspirations are being worked on, with an old, scrapped ship reappearing, now repurposed as the newest test article for NASA’s Human Landing System.
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Artemis
Lockheed Martin, NASA working around the clock to finish Artemis II Orion assembly and hold 2024 launch date
by Philip SlossThe Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission is nearing final assembly and testing at…
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After the Static Fire of what appears to be 29 Raptor engines below Booster 9,…
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After last week’s testing of Booster 9, the water deluge system, and other important activity…
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CommercialEuropeanIndianSpaceX
Launch roundup: Falcon Heavy launches largest GEO satellite, Rocket Lab’s Electron to complete 40th flight
The week of July 24 through July 30 will end the month with at least…
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Booster 9 has arrived at the Orbital Launch Site ahead of a Static Fire test,…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX Transporter-8 launches 72 payloads marking 200th booster landing
by Danny LentzSpaceX launched the Transporter-8 rideshare mission on Monday, June 12, 2023, from Space Launch Complex…
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Action finally returned to the United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) as…
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ChineseInternational
Beidou-3 G4 gets launched and Chinese Raptor gets tested, as it receives its own name
by Adrian BeilOne of China’s biggest rockets flew again this Wednesday. Chang Zheng 3B/E successfully launched the…
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Just over six months ago the European Space Agency (ESA) revealed the much-anticipated Ariane 6…
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OtherSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX surpasses 4,000 Starlink satellites on-orbit with Starlink Group 5-6 launch
Lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station…
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As SpaceX resumed Falcon launches after Starship’s exhilarating first orbital flight test last week, the…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX Transporter-7 launches 51 payloads, booster return to LZ
by Danny LentzSpaceX launched the Transporter-7 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space…
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SpaceX has launched its 23rd mission of 2023 with the company’s Falcon 9 rocket lofting…
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SpaceX launched 40 high-speed internet communication satellites to a polar low Earth orbit on the…
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With Booster 7 returned to the Mega Bay (High Bay 2) at Starbase, all eyes…
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ArtemisNorthrop Grumman
Solid Rocket Boosters meet performance targets in first-look data review for Artemis I
The Artemis I launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from LC-39B at the…
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Booster 7 resumed its static fire test campaign Monday with a full-duration firing of 14…
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The world’s most powerful operational rocket, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, took to the Florida skies for…
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SpaceX’s 49th Falcon 9 flight of 2022 has lifted off from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space…