SpaceX, NASA and Starship
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Transportation Secretary and acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says SpaceX is falling behind on Artemis III, so they could lose a contract.
The most recent Starship test was also the last of SpaceX's current iteration of the rocket. Up next, plans to roll out the next-gen “V3” Starship.
SpaceX wants to create the Rockhands Mitigation Bank to offset a proposed launch pad expansion that would destroy 18 acres of wetlands in South Texas.
SpaceX closed a troubled but instructive chapter in its Starship rocket program Monday with a near-perfect test flight that carried the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world from South Texas to the Indian Ocean.
In 2022, the National Academy of Sciences Planetary Science Decadal Survey recommended exploration of Uranus as its highest priority Flagship mission for the
Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas.
Today's launch will be the latest in a series of milestones that SpaceX has notched recently. For example, the company launched two Falcon 9 missions on Sunday (Oct. 19); one sent the 10,000th Starlink satellite to LEO, and the other was the record-breaking 31st flight for that particular Falcon 9's first stage.
SpaceX's upper-stage spacecraft made a soft, controlled landing on water at the end of its 11th test flight on Monday.