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Starship has Exploded Yet Again

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist

On Tuesday, May 27, at just after 7:30 P.M. Eastern Time, Starship Flight 9 lifted off the launchpad in Starbase, Texas. The launch was a first for Starship, since it was the first time SpaceX were going to refly a Super Heavy booster, using the one flown on Flight 7. As part of reflying the booster, SpaceX put the booster through a battery of tests, intending to test how it would respond to a variety of situations. As well as reflying a booster, SpaceX hoped to deploy a set of Starlink simulators using the Ship upper stage.

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Starship Flight Nine: Success or Explosion?

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist

The FAA has given SpaceX the go-ahead for the next launch of Starship, its super heavy launcher, from Starbase, Texas (yes, that is the name of the city). This is Starship's ninth test flight, and the...

Elon Musk’s Hurting SpaceX?

By: Peyton Farahi, Journalist

Okay, so back in January, SpaceX's Starship totally blew up and debris fell all over the Caribbean. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was like, "Hold up, whoa!" and put the rocket program on hold for a bit to figure out what happened.

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Why has Starship Failed So Much?

By: Rory Peterson, Journalist

Several days ago, Starship Flight 8 took off from its launchpad in Texas, slowly ascending through the atmosphere. About six minutes after that, the first stage of the rocket, called Superheavy, landed back at Starbase, where the rocket took off from. Two minutes after this, the second stage, still climbing into space, exploded. The launch before this one, Flight 7, had the same result, with the booster landing and the Starship itself exploding while trying to reach orbit. Why is this, and why has Starship failed so much?

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SpaceX crew 9 rescues stranded astronauts

By: Jedediah Smith, Journalist

After 9 months in space, astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have finally splashed down off the coast of Florida. They were rescued from their predicament by SpaceX's Crew 9 spacecraft, reentering Earth's atmosphere on the 18th of March.

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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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