starship
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If SpaceX’s Starship Goes Boom on the Launch Pad, NASA Has a Backup Plan
NASA says a Starship launch failure might wreck its Kennedy pad, making it difficult for SpaceX to fly essential cargo and crew to the ISS.
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Star Wars’ Hyperspace Explained
Lucasfilm’s version of faster-than-light travel — hyperspace — is as fundamental to the worldbuilding of Star Wars as the Force. It’s the backbone of making its galaxy an interconnected universe of potential, a concept that has become more and more integral to some of the franchise’s biggest storytelling pushes. But how it works, and how…
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Elon Musk Just Casually Confirmed Why the SpaceX SN11 Test Flight Exploded
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has finally revealed the cause of last week’s Starship SN11 malfunction after the prototype exploded into a massive fireball during a test flight on March 30. In a test flight that departed from SpaceX’s South Texas facility, the SN11 reached a maximum altitude of 10km – as planned – and continued…
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SpaceX Starship Prototype Completes Its First ‘Hop’
SpaceX’s plans to build a reusable rocket capable of landing on the Moon and Mars took a major leap forward on Tuesday, following the first successful test of the Starship system.