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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Splashdown

By: Maximiliano Quinteros, Journalist

What is SpaceX Crew 8 splashdown? Space X's Crew-8 is preparing to return to Earth this Friday with a parachute-assisted splashdown after spending around seven months in space. The crew will depend...

The New SpaceX Starship Launch

By: Laith Kassim, Journalist

On October 13th, 2024, SpaceX launched the fifth test flight of the Starship. Towering at almost 400 feet tall, Starship is made of two components: the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy rocket. The Super Heavy rocket is about 230 feet tall, while the Starship rocket is about 160 feet tall. The purpose of Starship is to soon carry crew and cargo to the Moon, and eventually Mars.

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US Firm Unveils Next-Gen Haven-2 Space Station; Maybe The ISS Replacement

By: Miles Kowalewski, Journalist

Vast, a US-based space habitation tech company, has unveiled Haven-2, which could be the new improved International Space Station.

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Private Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope Brings Concerns

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist

The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in Earth Orbit for over 3 decades now, is expected to deorbit in 2034, bringing a close to a major asset that has helped NASA and the world at-large understand the universe. In 2022, billionaire and major funder of the Polaris Program, Jared Isaacman, announced that he would fly to Hubble and perform maintenance on the Telescope, and it would be completely funded privately.

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How SpaceX Transformed The Rocket

By: Andrei Daquioag, Journalist

On March 14th, 2002, Elon Musk founded SpaceX with the hope of revolutionizing spaceflight and making commercial spaceflight more accessible. Initially, SpaceX was struggling. Their first flight of the Falcon 1, in March of 2006, had failed, and subsequent launches failed to reach orbit. The company was on the brink of bankruptcy, but fortunately, SpaceX received grant of $1 billion from NASA. On May 25th, 2012, the SpaceX Dragon capsule docked with the ISS, resulting in shipping contracts for SpaceX, and jumpstarting SpaceX's development for a reusable rocket.

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Elon Musk’s Snailbrook Town

By: Seth Herionimus, Journalist

Elon Musk is building a town outside of Austin Texas for employees from the companies SpaceX and The Boring Company.

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SpaceX and T-Mobile partner up to link satellites to cell phones

By: Yusuf Lashin, Journalist

How did SpaceX and T-Mobile partner up to link satellites to cell phones?

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SpaceX vs Blue Origin

By: Jason Reznikov, Journalist

The billionaire space race that has been taking place for about 20 years has finally hit mainstream media as new innovations and promises take the world by storm.

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Reusable Rockets

By: Eric Yang, Journalist

The newest reusable rocket technology will take spaceflight to the next level.

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Starships Orbital Flight

By: Sebastian Rodman, Journalist

Starship is the rocket that is bound to take us the moon, mars, and the stars beyond.

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STARSHIP RAPTOR ENGINES

By: Sabin Thapa, Journalist

What is this new secret engine that space X is developing?

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SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy

By: Claire Conley, Journalist

The rocket carried SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s red Tesla Roadster with “Space Oddity” by David Bowie playing on the stereo. It is now heading toward Mars. As to why the rocket is carrying this unique cargo; “I love the thought of a car drifting apparently endlessly through space and perhaps being discovered by an alien race millions of years in the future,” Musk tweeted in December.

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