Providing a backdrop to Elon Musk’s long-awaited Starship update, Booster 4 and Ship 20 have been fully stacked at the Orbital Launch Site. Booster 4 was lifted onto the Mount on Sunday, ahead of the use of the Mechazilla chopsticks to stack Ship 20 on Wednesday night. Musk is set to present the latest updates on the Starship program on Thursday.
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Super Heavy Booster 4 has returned to the Orbital Launch Mount (OLM), this time for…
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With Booster 4 and Ship 20 reunited at the launch site, both vehicles will undergo…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
Repaired SpaceX booster returns to action on Starlink Group 4-23
by Lee KanayamaSpaceX has launched its 56th Starlink mission, Group 4-23, taking flight aboard a flight-proven Falcon…
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The recent focus at Starbase has been Booster 7 and Ship 24. Booster 7 appears…
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SpaceX has launched its twentieth Falcon 9 rocket of the year with a batch of…
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SpaceX launched Luxembourg’s first military spacecraft on Wednesday, with a flight-proven Falcon 9 carrying the…
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A redesign to the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) Thrust Vector Control (TVC) Auxiliary Power Unit…
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OtherSpaceXUncrewed
Launch Roundup: Rocket Lab fails during “We Will Never Desert You” launch; SpaceX launches two boosters for 17th time
The week of Sept. 18 through Sept. 24 is set to see four orbital launches,…
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SpaceX has rolled out Ship 25 to the launch site and stacked it on top…
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SpaceX’s Super Heavy Booster 9 prototype has completed its pre-launch static fire test. This follows…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
Starship Update: Booster 9 wearing a crown, construction, and HLS test article
Preparations are taking place at Starbase for the upcoming second Starship test flight, with Booster…
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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…