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SpaceX Adds New Tower at Starship Base, Mars Dream Moves Closer
August 23, 2024 – SpaceX has recently announced the completion of the capping process for the second Starship launch tower at its Starbase, located in South Texas. Remarkably, this significant milestone was achieved in just 41 days. In addition to this progress, SpaceX is gearing up for the launch of two manned Crew Dragon spacecrafts…
SpaceX Faces Allegations of Multiple Wastewater Violations, Polluting Texas Waters this Year: Regulatory Report
August 13, 2024 – SpaceX, the space exploration company owned by Elon Musk, has been accused of violating environmental regulations multiple times this year by illegally discharging pollutants into Texas waters. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) issued a notice of violation last week, specifically pointing out serious issues with the water deluge system…
SpaceX’s Starship Gearing Up for Fifth Test Flight in Roughly Three Weeks
August 12, 2024 – SpaceX, the leading space exploration company, has announced that the highly anticipated fifth test flight of its Starship may be postponed to September. This update comes from the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, who revealed the potential delay on social media. In June of this year, SpaceX achieved a historic milestone with…
SpaceX’s Next Adventure: Starship Recovery Tests in Australia
August 01, 2024 – According to recent reports from Reuters, SpaceX is considering expanding its rocket testing program and has been in discussions with the Australian Space Agency regarding this matter. The company hopes to launch its Starship from Texas, send satellites into space, and then recover them from Australian waters. Interestingly, this news comes…
SpaceX’s Next Starship Launch Targets Mid-Season with 50% Capture Prospects
July 29, 2024 – Following the successful test flight of its Starship rocket, SpaceX is gearing up for an even more challenging mission. Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, announced during a live broadcast on X Takeover that the company’s fifth orbit test flight (IFT-5) of Starship is scheduled for late August or…
SpaceX Secures $6.1B NASA Mission: Guiding the ISS to a Safe Pacific Ocean Splashdown
June 28, 2024 – SpaceX Wins Lucrative NASA Contract to Safely Deorbit the Aging International Space Station into the Pacific Ocean In a significant milestone for space debris management, SpaceX has been awarded a lucrative $843 million contract by NASA to oversee the safe deorbiting of the 24-year-old International Space Station (ISS) into the Pacific…
SpaceX Starship Gears Up for Flight with Completed Fourth Launch Rehearsal
May 21, 2024 – SpaceX has announced via its official X account seven hours ago that Starship 29 has completed its Wet Dress Rehearsal, and is now awaiting final launch date approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). According to a report on May 17th, SpaceX had already stacked Starship 29 atop Super Heavy Booster…
SpaceX Announces Breakthrough in SMS Transmission via Starlink Satellites
January 11, 2024 – In a recent announcement, SpaceX has officially declared the successful utilization of its Starlink satellites for SMS transmission. According to the company, this breakthrough was achieved through collaboration with T-Mobile, paving the way for the planned rollout of their direct-to-phone satellite services within the next year. SpaceX intends to commence its…
SpaceX’s Accelerated Rocket Launch Schedule: Musk’s Bold Announcement
November 08, 2023 – Elon Musk took to social media to announce that SpaceX is currently launching rockets on an average of once every three days, with plans to increase the frequency to once every two days next year. This signifies that in the coming year, SpaceX will be launching an average of 15 rockets…
Advancing the Frontiers: SpaceX’s SN25 Prepares for Second Orbital Flight Test
June 28, 2023 – The latest breakthrough in space exploration unfolds as SpaceX successfully conducts a pivotal static fire test of its prototype Starship, SN25. At 8:27 PM Eastern Time, technicians ignited the six Raptors engines housed within SN25, marking a crucial step towards SpaceX’s second orbital flight test of the Starship system. Lasting approximately…