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Starship Flight 7 mission patch, credit: SpaceX,

FAA investigates Starship's seventh test flight explosion following reports of property damage

A fuel leak caused the upper stage of a Starship to explode in mid-air, leaving debris over the Turks and Caicos Islands. The FAA and SpaceX are investigating the incident to improve launch safety.
Fire show resulting from the disintegration of the second stage of the Starship spacecraft. From social networks, Section 27A of the Copyright Law

Another failure for SPACEX's Starship spacecraft: The booster landed successfully, but the spacecraft exploded

A Starship probe launched from Texas broke apart minutes after liftoff, but the "Super Hubble" booster successfully landed on metal arms on the launch pad.
Storm clouds over the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Archive photo). Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky

Due to Hurricane Milton, the launch of the Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter, which was planned for yesterday, 10/10/2024, was postponed

Severe weather conditions in Florida are forcing NASA and SpaceX to delay the launch of the Europa Clipper mission, which was designed to explore Jupiter's icy moon.
Sonny Williams smiles for the camera in the middle of maintenance work on the Kivu Laboratory Module of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

Goodbye Starliner, Hello Soyuz: The International Space Station's busy week

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams became full crew members on the International Space Station
Night landing in the desert for the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, 7/9/2024

Starliner spacecraft lands safely unmanned after 3-month mission with multiple technical issues

The malfunctions experienced by the Starliner during the launch led to NASA choosing not to return the crew via Starliner, and instead the astronauts will be returned in February 2025 via SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. In fact they will be used
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which flew NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams on a manned test flight to the International Space Station, is seen docked at the front dock of the Harmony Module. The image was taken from the window of SpaceX's Dragon Endeavor spacecraft docked in the port adjacent to the Starliner. Credit: NASA A

Is the Starliner spacecraft stuck in space? NASA answers frequently asked questions about the status of the astronauts' return

NASA is expected to make a decision by the end of August when and how to return the two astronauts stuck on the space station
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore upon their arrival at the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

Difficulty sleeping and the mismatch between Boeing's spacesuits and SpaceX's. The astronauts are still lost in space

NASA faces dilemmas over return of astronauts stranded in space following malfunctions in Boeing's Starliner mission
The Webb telescope, seen in the lower right corner of this figure, was used to verify the presence of mummified minerals on the surface of the asteroid Psyche. Credit: Southwest Research Institute

The Webb telescope reveals water compounds in asteroid Psyche

The observations will help analyze data from NASA's Psyche spacecraft on its way to this interesting asteroid that orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt - between Mars and Jupiter
Simulation of the USDV spacecraft that SpaceX will develop for NASA for the purpose of deorbiting the International Space Station in 2030. PR photo, SPACEX

NASA awards SpaceX an $843 million contract to deorbit the International Space Station in 2030

"NASA will take ownership after development and operate it throughout its mission," according to the statement. "Along with the space station, it is expected to be dismantled as part of the re-entry process." SpaceX's International Space Station descent vehicle
The moment the Starship spacecraft exploded during a test flight on 20/4/2023. From the live broadcast of Spice X on YouTube

SPACEX's Starship spacecraft exploded four minutes after launch on its first full test flight

Apparently the thrust of the first stage was not strong enough and the spacecraft was unable to separate from it. This is still an unmanned test flight and it seems that now the manned experiments will move away * This is the prototype
A "selfie" photo of the Orion capsule on the Artemis 1 mission, taken during a routine inspection of the spacecraft on the third day of the journey - 18/11/2022. Photo: NASA

NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the moon sets the stage for routine space exploration beyond Earth orbit

An astronomer explains what to expect and why it's important and how technological developments in the last 50 years have made the moon a much more accessible place
Eitan Stiva in the Coppola Observation Module on the International Space Station

The landing of AX-1 and Ethan Stiva: The Dragon is on its way to land around 20:00

Monday night there will be two broadcasts at 01:30 from the transmitter of the departure from the space station to the Dragon spacecraft, 03:30 the disconnection of the Dragon. The article also includes videos taken during the mission
SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches docking at the space station. Illustration: depositphotos.com

SpaceX stops producing "Team Dragon" capsules and soon also cargo spaceships and will reuse the existing fleet

According to SpaceX president Gavin Shotwell, the company has already stopped production of Crew Dragon capsules after building its fourth spacecraft scheduled for an April 19, 2022 launch for NASA to the space station.
A Soyuz spacecraft is approaching the space station. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The head of the Russian space agency threatens: we will stop providing stabilization services to the International Space Station "from our side it will fall on the USA or Europe"

Director of Roscosmos Dimitri Rogozin referred to the DMS-R facility used to navigate the station, although it was designed by the European Space Agency and integrated into the Russian component of the Zavezda space station * as well as the Progress cargo spacecraft
The landing of the SpaceX crew Dragon spacecraft on the first all-civilian mission. Screenshot

The spaceship with the four civilian astronauts landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft entered the atmosphere and autonomously deployed the parachutes. The four passengers intended the flight to collect donations for childhood cancer research
SpaceX's SN9 launcher crashes in Texas, 2/2/21, not far from the launch pad that is carrying the SN10 prototype of the Starship spacecraft. Screenshot from a SPACEX broadcast

A day after SPACEX announced a raffle for passengers on a spacecraft to Mars, another prototype exploded

About five and a half minutes after launch, the launcher's engines were ignited in order to move it to a vertical position and then align with the nose up to land on its bottom, however, as it was seen in the broadcast, the launcher overturned when
Screenshot from the moment the SN8 spacecraft crashed during a test flight in Texas, 9/12/2020. Photo: SPACEX

SpaceX's Starship 8 spacecraft crashed tonight during a test landing in Texas (video)

SN8, a prototype of a spacecraft that is supposed to transport humans to Mars, took off and even circled in the air but did not succeed in the landing phase apparently due to low fuel pressure in the central tank, which caused
The astronauts of the Crew-1 mission: from left: Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Soichi Noguchi don SpaceX spacesuits on their way to launch. Photo: NASA/Joel Kowsky

Four astronauts are on their way to the space station aboard the first commercial manned spacecraft

SpaceX's Falcon 9 launcher carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA's CREW-1 mission and SpaceX is being launched tonight to the International Space Station and inside it is a spacecraft containing NASA astronauts Mike
From right to left: Moshe Golani, VP of Engineering at Space Communications, Lee Rosen, Launch Manager from SpaceX, David Polak, CEO of Space Communications, and Itzik Shinberg, Deputy CEO of Space Communications. Photo: SPACECOM

The Amos 17 satellite was successfully launched; Live Broadcast

Alon Shikar (right) and Jackie Faye, two of the astronauts who spent four days in an analog Mars simulator in the Mitzpe Ramon area. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

For the information of travelers to Mars

The illuminated trail left behind by the Falcon 9 launcher, which stunned the people of California last Friday. Photography: Kevin Gill.

2017: SpaceX's incredible year

Assembling the payload fairing of the Falcon Heavy launcher around Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster. Photo: SpaceX.

Musk's Tesla car is getting ready to launch near Mars

Simulation of a Falcon Heavy launcher. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX will launch a Tesla car into orbit near Mars

A simulation of a base on Mars, with several models of the giant ship that Elon Musk will use for development. Source: Elon Musk / SpaceX.

Elon Musk's space settlement vision

Simulation of the BFR spacecraft taking off from Mars back to Earth. The weak gravity of Mars, together with its thin atmosphere, allow a spacecraft to take off into space without the need for the huge launcher that it carried on its launch from Earth. Source: SpaceX.

Elon Musk reveals the way he will pay for his giant Mars rover