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SpaceX’s Starship megarocket has come together ahead of its sixth-ever test flight next week. SpaceX has stacked Starship‘s two elements — the Super Heavy booster and Ship upper-stage spacecraft — on the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site in South Texas. The company confirmed the milestone in a Friday night X post, which featured […]
Unleashing a record 17 million pounds of thrust at launch, the sight of SpaceX’s 120-meter-tall Starship rocket roaring skyward is something to behold. The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company has already performed five Starship flights since the first one in April 2023, with each one increasingly successful. Comprising the upper-stage Starship spacecraft and the first-stage Super […]
In its fifth Starship test flight on Sunday, SpaceX captured the rocket’s towering first stage booster after it hovered back to the launching pad to be secured by giant metal arms. It marks a novel engineering feat in the SpaceX’s ambitions to build a reusable moon and Mars vehicle. Standing at almost 400 feet (121 meters), the empty Starship […]