SpaceX Plans First Double Starship Catch, With Sonic Booms Near Cameron County
SpaceX’s bid to recover an entire Starship launch system would bring the upper stage back over populated parts of northern…
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SpaceX Starship Reaches Orbit, Deploys 26 Satellites Despite Three Engine Failures
SpaceX’s Starship has crossed an important threshold, but not cleanly. Test 14 reportedly reached low Earth orbit for the vehicle’s…
Starship Moon Plan Faces Estimates of Six to 22 Refuelings
SpaceX and NASA have a wide disagreement to resolve before Starship can carry astronauts toward a Moon landing: a calculation…
NASA’s Starship Moon Plan Needs Two Refueling Stages, Launch Count Unsettled
NASA’s proposed Starship architecture for the first crewed Artemis lunar landing depends on two orbital refueling stages, yet the agency…
SpaceX Proposes 32-Mile Florida Pipeline to Replace Hundreds of Fuel Trucks Per Starship Launch
SpaceX wants to replace a recurring convoy-scale fuel burden with fixed infrastructure. Its subsidiary, Coastal Connect Services, has proposed a…
NASA Safety Panel Seeks Artemis Review Over 22-Launch Refueling Plan
Twenty-two supporting Starship launches may be required before NASA’s planned lunar lander can leave Earth orbit for the Moon. That…
NASA Revises SpaceX and Blue Origin Lander Routes for 2028 Moon Landing
NASA has changed how SpaceX’s Starship and Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers would meet Orion, travel to lunar orbit and…
SpaceX Starship Reaches Orbit, Deploys 26 Satellites Despite Engine Shutdown
SpaceX’s Starship reached Earth orbit and delivered satellites there for the first time on September 28, turning its 14th integrated…
SpaceX Modifies Starship for 10-Hour Test After Booster Relight Failure
SpaceX is preparing Starship for a roughly 10-hour orbital test, but the mission begins with an unresolved problem from a…
FAA Reviews, but Has Not Approved, SpaceX’s 456-Launch Starbase Plan
SpaceX wants to increase Starbase’s authorized ceiling from 25 launches a year to as many as 456, but that higher…
Google Launches First Space AI Chip, Models 1,800 Starship Flights
About 1,800 Starship launches over 10 years that is the scale embedded in Google’s model for driving launch prices low…
Starship Deploys 26 Satellites, but Explosive Return Leaves Reuse Unproven
SpaceX’s Starship finally reached Earth orbit and deployed 26 next-generation Starlink satellites, but it did not return in reusable condition….
SpaceX Starship Deploys 26 Satellites but Cuts Six-Orbit Flight Short
SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit and released 26 operational Starlink satellites on September 28, but the milestone came with a sharp…
SpaceX Plans First Starship Upper-Stage Catch for August, Pending Approval
SpaceX wants Starship Flight 14 to do two things the vehicle has never done before: return its upper stage to…
FAA Reviews Starship Return Route That Could Affect 600 Aircraft Hourly
The Federal Aviation Administration was still reviewing SpaceX’s proposed Starship return corridor across the western United States as of July…
SpaceX’s Conditional Flight 14 Catch Would Test Its Faster Recovery Tower
SpaceX could attempt to catch the Starship upper stage with its launch tower on Flight 14, CEO Elon Musk said…