SpaceX
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The first Starship flight test of 2025 flew with ambitious goals: seeking to repeat our previous success of launching and catching the world’s most powerful launch vehicle while putting a redesigned and upgraded Starship through a rigorous set of flight demonstrations. It served as a reminder that development testing, by definition, can be unpredictable. On…
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SpaceX’s colossal Starship launch system lifted off on its seventh uncrewed test flight Thursday, with an upgraded version of the megarocket embarking on the program’s most ambitious flight to date. SpaceX was able to duplicate its prior feat of catching a booster that returned to Earth. But 8.5 minutes into flight, the Starship spacecraft itself…
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SpaceX launched the sixth test flight of its giant Starship rocket on Tuesday. Starship took off from the company’s Starbase facility near Brownsville in the U.S. state of Texas at about 4:01 p.m. Central Time. Starship’s Raptor engines ignited during hot-staging separation. Several minutes after liftoff, the Super Heavy booster initiated its landing burn and…
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Iran’s foreign ministry denied that a meeting was held between the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations and Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and close ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, Iranian state media reported Saturday. The New York Times reported the meeting took place earlier this week, citing two Iranian officials. Associated Press also reported a meeting between…
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Reports that billionaire Elon Musk has held multiple calls with Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, should be investigated by the Pentagon and law-enforcement agencies on national-security grounds, two senior Democrat senators said in a letter seen by Reuters on Friday. Musk, who has been appointed to a senior government role by Republican President-elect Donald Trump,…
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SpaceX launched the Hera mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to interplanetary transfer orbit on Monday. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:52 a.m. Eastern Time. Later SpaceX confirmed Hera’s deployment. Hera is a planetary defense mission that will study the impact of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection…
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Brazil’s ban of X amid a fight with Elon Musk over disinformation on his prized social-media site offers a cautionary message for other democracies trying to balance freedom of expression with the integrity of information ahead of elections. There’s no easy solution, including in Brazil, where the judiciary has broad powers to demand the removal…
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Another attempt at first NASA moon landing in more than 50 years Intuitive Machines is the latest commercial partner NASA has worked with to cut the costs of taking its equipment to the moon. But its last partnership through the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative did not go to plan. Last month, a propellant leak…
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On Wednesday, T-Mobile US said that Elon Musk-owned SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, carrying the first set of Starlink satellites that can send phone signals from space directly to smartphones. In August 2022, the companies had announced that SpaceX’s Starlink satellites will provide mobile users with network access in parts of the…
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World richest man, Elon Musk has revealed he’s okay with going to hell. The tech genius revealed this on his official Twitter page on Monday, 9th May, 2022 while responding to a Tweep. The billionaire had made a disturbing post about his possible demise which had caused quite a stir online. A Twitter user had appealed to him to profess his…
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The 33-year-old previously voiced plans to head to Mars when she approaches retirement age, claiming she will accomplish this whatever it takes, even if it requires her to work “manually until death”. Tech mogul Elon Musk’s girlfriend, Canadian singer Grimes, appears to share his burning passion for the Red Planet, going as far as announcing…
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