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See SpaceX Starship’s full Earth re-entry, splashdown and explosive ending

SpaceX launched Starship for 5th time on Oct. 13, 2024 from Starbase in south Texas. Watch the spaceship re-entery Earth’s atmosphere, splashdown in the Indian Ocean and then explode. The Super Heavy booster was caught by the launch tower’s ‘chopsticks’ shortly after separation from Starship. Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-5-launch-super-heavy-booster-catch-success-video Credit: SpaceX source Please enable JavaScript to […]

Blastoff! SpaceX launches private Ax-3 crew to space station, nails booster landing

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Axiom Space Ax-3 crew to the International Space Station from historic launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 18, 2024. Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-ax-3-private-astronaut-mission-launch-success Ax-3 Crew: Commander Michael “LA” López-Alegría, pilot Walter Villadei and mission specialists Marcus Wandt and Alper Gezeravcı. Broadcast courtesy: Axiom […]

Blastoff! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 launches to space station, booster lands in Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Crew-7 mission from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Aug. 26, 2023. Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-nasa-crew-7-launch-international-space-station The four astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon are NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, the second Iranian-American in space; European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi […]

SpaceX launches 15 Starlink satellites from foggy Vandenberg, nails landing

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 15 Starlink satellites From California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 20, 2023 at 12:09 a.m. EDT (0409 GMT; 9:09 p.m. on July 19 local California time). Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-group-6-15 The rockets first stage landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific Ocean shortly […]

Whoa! SpaceX test-fires Raptor engine into ‘water cooled steel plate’

Watch SpaceX douse a steel plate with water and then blast Raptor engine fire into it. The private spaceflight company’s Super Heavy and Starship rockets are powered by 39 total Raptor engines combined. Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-steel-plate-rocket-fire-video?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=space.com See Raptors in action in Starship’s fully integrated launch: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-first-space-launch Credit: SpaceX | edited by Space.com’s Steve Spaleta (https://twitter.com/stevespaleta) […]