SpaceX Starship rocket breaks up again
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After back-to-back Starship upper stage failures, SpaceX on Tuesday again launched the world's most powerful rocket, but faced new problems.
Elon Musk's giant, multi-billion-dollar mega rocket launched again from Texas on Tuesday evening for another test flight. T his time, however, the rocket lost control of its altitude control due to a leak, making a controlled landing unlikely, SpaceX announcers said during the flight's livestream.
As Elon Musk pulls back from his political work in the US government, the SpaceX chief is turning his attention back to his rocket company, planning an all-hands-style X livestream to discuss his long-term goal of sending humans to Mars.
Elon Musk’s Starship is believed to have exploded into pieces during its return to Earth on Wednesday morning – shortly before the billionaire SpaceX founder scrapped a planned speech on his ambition to “make life multiplanetary”.
Physicists who record rocket launches and landings are learning important facts about the acoustics of spaceflight.
SpaceX's latest Starship ended in disappointment as the spacecraft spun out of control and exploded mid-flight. Despite hopes to demonstrate several key features, including satellite deployment and heat shield durability,
Elon Musk, who is juggling ... his aspirations of sending humans to Mars. Musk’s SpaceX has faced multiple hurdles recently, ending two straight rocket launches with explosions.
The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was ...
On the morning of April 20, the world’s largest rocket blasted off from Starbase ... Not only did it seem that Elon Musk and his company were forgoing basic safety precautions, evading ...
Critics of Elon Musk and SpaceX say that a new city will give more power to a company they believe is harming the environment.
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