SpaceX Starship, Mars sample-return mission
SpaceX's giant Starship will be 500 feet tall for Mars missions, Elon Musk says (video)
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, told employees on April 4 that Starship will eventually be as tall as 500 feet (150 meters), roughly 20 percent higher than the massive system aboard the Super Heavy rocket right now.
SpaceX’s Starship Could Save NASA’s Beleaguered Mars Sample Return Mission
Facing budgetary pressure for its Mars Sample Return program, NASA has turned to private industry for ideas—perhaps with one specific company in mind
Experts Suggest Using SpaceX's Starship to Rescue Stranded Samples on Surface of Mars
NASA's highly ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission is on thin ice. An independent review board balked at the Mars Sample Return mission's "unrealistic" budget last year, highly complex mission design,
SpaceX's Starship set to reach new heights for Mars missions
SpaceX 's Starship, currently the world's largest rocket, is set to become even larger. The company's billionaire founder, Elon Musk, has announced that the Starship will eventually reach a height of 150 meters.
Rocket Report: Starship could save Mars Sample Return; BE-4s for second Vulcan
Gilmour Space has raised its privately developed Eris rocket vertical on a launch pad in North Queensland for the first time, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports. This milestone marks the start of the next phase of launch preparations for Eris,
How Many Raptor Engines Does SpaceX's Starship Heavy Have & How Powerful Are They?
You may be surprised to learn that today's modern spacecraft are not powered by just one but multiple rocket engines. Here's ...
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WATCH: SpaceX launches Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, on third test flight
After two nail-biting and explosive test flights in 2023, a SpaceX Starship rocket has launched from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas.Watch video of the launch in the player above.The ...
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SpaceX launches massive Super Heavy-Starship rocket into space in most successful test yet
SpaceX successfully launched its Super Heavy-Starship rocket on Thursday morning from Texas, in what was its third and most successful test yet. The spaceflight company's live stream had more than ...
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SpaceX, Blue Origin Start Work on Large Moon Cargo Landers
SpaceX and Blue Origin have started work on lunar cargo landers for NASA's Artemis missions. They're expected to be variants ...
SpaceX could finally face competition. It may be too late.
Elon Musk’s space venture may finally be facing a space industry that is poised to challenge SpaceX on a number of fronts.
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SpaceX fires up Starship rocket ahead of 4th test flight (video)
SpaceX's next Starship vehicle has breathed fire ahead of its coming test flight. A 165-foot-tall (50 meters) Starship upper stage just fired up all six of its Raptor engines in a full-duration ...
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SpaceX Reusable Starship Could Become Cheaper than Intercontinental Airplanes for Earth Cargo
Currently, the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster stages are reused about 20 times but could get reused for 50-100 times. Citi has an analysis that the cost per kilogram to orbit for Starship would be $300 ...
SpaceX Ignites Starship Booster Ahead Of Fourth Test Flight In May; Watch
The fourth test flight is targeted for early May if SpaceX is able to procure a launch license from the US Federal Aviation ...
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As IFT-4 prepares for launch, Starship’s future is...
After the historic IFT-3 launch in March, the Starship program is proceeding with plans to fly Ship 29 and Booster 11 on ...