After the Static Fire of what appears to be 29 Raptor engines below Booster 9, SpaceX rolled back the first stage of the next flight test to the production site. Meanwhile, the hot staging extension is still at the Masseys test site as the company gets ready to test the most significant modification between flights one and two.
"outfitting"
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The International Space Station’s iROSA (ISS Roll-Out Solar Array) solar panel upgrade, started in 2021,…
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The first crewed Artemis mission is now the focus of NASA’s beyond-Earth orbit human spaceflight…
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EGS launch team looking forward to working with Artemis II crew
by Philip SlossNASA Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) have been preparing and planning for the Artemis II launch…
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The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, which launched Expedition 68 crewmembers Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin,…
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Astronauts Koichi Wakata and Nicole Mann have completed another spacewalk, continuing work to enable the…
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Boeing expanding SLS Core Stage production to KSC to build Artemis inventory
by Philip SlossBoeing, the prime contractor for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage, is adding two…
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With Booster 7 returned to the Mega Bay (High Bay 2) at Starbase, all eyes…
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In low Earth orbit (LEO) this week, NASA, Roscosmos, and the China National Space Administration…
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A fully stacked Starship is still set to conduct the next round of tests for…
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Russian cosmonaut pair perform follow-on EVA to outfit robotic arm
by Tyler GrayRoscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev returned to work outside the International Space Station…
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Russian spacewalk to end early as suit power issue appears
by Pete HardingA prematurely-ended Russian spacewalk took place at the ISS Wednesday to continue preparations to fully…
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A Russian spacewalk was completed outside the International Space Station (ISS) to continue preparations to…
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Lockheed Martin powers up Artemis 2 Orion, updates status on other capsules
Lockheed Martin has completed the first-time power-up of the Orion capsule for the Artemis 2…
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Providing a backdrop to Elon Musk’s long-awaited Starship update, Booster 4 and Ship 20 have…
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Numerous Raptor 2 engines are now being put through their paces at SpaceX’s test center…
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The arrival of the second Orion European Service Module (ESM) at the Kennedy Space Center…
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Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have completed a 6 hour 54 minute…
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Russian cosmonauts begin series of spacewalks to integrate Nauka with the ISS
ISS Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitsky and Pytor Dubrov exited the International Space Station…
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After nearly 20 years in orbit serving as a docking port and airlock for the…