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Blue Origin’s powerful new orbital rocket has risen on the launch pad to prep for a debut flight that could happen soon. New Glenn was stacked at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, which is next door to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Blue Origin has not announced an official launch […]
Russian Senator Sergei Muratov presented an S-8 aircraft rocket to a municipal district in his native Kurgan region near Kazakhstan’s border, local media reported Friday. “May you develop as swiftly as this rocket. May you always hit your targets like this rocket,” Muratov said during a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the Pritobolny district […]
SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful launch system ever built, dwarfing even the mighty Saturn V both in terms of mass and total thrust. The scale of the vehicle is such that concerns have been raised about the impact each launch of the megarocket may have on the local environment. Which is why a team […]
Donald Trump joined Elon Musk in Texas on Tuesday to watch a successful test launch of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, a demonstration of the unprecedented closeness between the world’s richest man and the newly chosen president of the United States. Trump tweeted in advance of the launch: “I’m heading to the Great State of Texas to […]
The biggest and most powerful rocket ever built now has a half-dozen launches under its belt. SpaceX‘s 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship megarocket lifted off for the sixth time ever today (Nov. 19), rising off the orbital launch mount at the company’s Starbase site in South Texas at 5:00 p.m. EST (2200 GMT; 4:00 p.m. local […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature How to watch Starship’s flight test SpaceX will be conducting its sixth test of its Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, on Tuesday. The test launch is planned for 6pm CT (5pm ET or 2200 GMT) from […]
SpaceX is slated to launch its gargantuan Starship rocket on Tuesday out of South Texas, a key test that is expected to include a guest visit from President-elect Donald Trump. The sixth major test mission comes as SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is heavily engaged in transition planning for Trump’s second administration. Musk, who […]
ABL Space Systems is dropping plans to compete in the launch market and is switching its focus to missile programs for U.S. national defense. ABL, founded in 2017, had attempted to reach orbit with its RS1 rocket, but suffered setbacks when the first attempt saw the rocket fall back to the launch pad and explode […]
Blue Origin’s much-anticipated New Glenn rocket took a significant step toward its inaugural flight with the assembly of its first and second stages. The rocket, designed for heavy-lift missions, was recently stacked in Blue Origin’s facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Named “GS-1” and “GS-2,” the stages were joined for the first time, […]
A plane of Kyrgyz airline Moalem Aviation was preparing for takeoff when an explosion occurred near the airport in Beirut. Israel struck a powerful blow to a building in the Shuweifat district. A correspondent of Sputnik Arabic captured the moment of the explosion on video. A representative of Moalem Aviation LLC said that the plane […]