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SpaceX's mishap investigation is officially closed but that doesn't mean it can fly its Starship rocket just yet
The FAA has closed its mishap investigation for SpaceX's Starship. Musk said the giant rocket is re…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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Elon Musk owned SpaceX completes its first polar orbit mission as Falcon 9’s booster nails off-shore landing
Instead of making use of the Earth’s gravitation spin to reach low orbits like usual, the rock…
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India’s space agency wants to design and build reusable rockets for the world
The Indian Space Research Organisation has said that it wants to design and build reusable rockets.…
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L&T delivers rocket booster for Indian human space flight
"The hardware, a booster segment, will be used in the heavy rocket for launching the country's f…
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How big is the SpaceX Starship mega-rocket? Photos show how tall it is
SpaceX's Starship is the biggest rocket ever built by height, but it can be hard to depict how enor…
Crystal Raypole
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Elon Musk congratulated SpaceX for an 'exciting' launch of Starship after the rocket exploded
Starship made its first attempt at space and burst into a fireball on the way. Elon Musk tweeted sh…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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SpaceX finally says it's ready to launch Starship, again. The world's most powerful rocket could reach space for the first time in mid-November — if the FAA says yes.
SpaceX is gunning for a mid-November launch date of it's massive Starship rocket
Hannah Getahun
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Elon Musk is gearing up to launch his Starship mega-rocket in August. Here are 2 changes SpaceX made to stop it exploding.
SpaceX hopes its modifications, which include a blast-proof launchpad and a booster vent, will keep…
Marianne Guenot
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Photo shows the moment lighting struck the launchpad as SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket was preparing for liftoff
Severe weather at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida forced the Falcon Heavy launch attempt to …
Marianne Guenot
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Rocket Lab is about to recover a used rocket booster for the first time. Watch the company launch its SpaceX-inspired mission live online.
The 'Return to Sender' mission is a bid to recover expensive aerospace hardware, a move that could …
Dave Mosher
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Russia is evacuating a village that may be hit by falling rocket debris as it prepares for its first moon landing in almost 50 years
Ahead of Russia's launch of Luna-25, Shakhtinsky's villagers will be evacuated over concerns their …
Joshua Zitser
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket booster for a record-breaking 9th time
SpaceX propels Falcon 9 booster for the ninth time, delivering to orbit a payload of Starlink satel…
Zahra Tayeb
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Rocket Lab will soon attempt its first-ever recovery of a rocket booster — a SpaceX-like capability that could save the company millions per launch
Peter Beck, Rocket Lab's founder and CEO, hopes the planned test on November 15 will help the compa…
Dave Mosher
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China is set to launch the next piece of its space station on Sunday — in a rocket that previously rained parts back onto Earth
The Long March 5B rocket has launched twice before, and both times its heavy body fell back to Eart…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Liquid nitrogen leaked onto wetlands around SpaceX launch pad before rocket-test explosion, federal regulators confirm
An aerial video shows patches of wetland around SpaceX's launch pad that are snow-white from the li…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX successfully launched more Starlink internet satellites, but lost a rocket booster in the process.
The rocket booster was supposed to land on a ship waiting in the Atlantic Ocean.
Annabelle Williams
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Mystery solved: NASA confirmed the space object that just zipped past Earth is a 1960s rocket booster
Earth's gravity briefly captured the old Centaur booster, leftover from a failed moon mission. It's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA wants SLS rocket boosters for 6 more Artemis missions
Washington, June 30 (IANS) NASA is taking steps towards building Space Launch System (SLS) solid ro…
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SpaceX's mega-rocket has a 'decent chance' of making orbit on its next flight, Musk said. Last time, Starship blew up the launchpad and exploded in mid-air.
Elon Musk said this time, SpaceX will try hot staging, meaning Starship's engines will be lit while…
Sonam Sheth,Marianne Guenot
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Ghostly flying 'whirlpool' that appeared above Hawaii could be leftover SpaceX rocket fuel
Video footage shows a strange blue whirlpool flying over Hawaii, then breaking apart, shortly after…