Several human spaceflights were announced during September, alongside other updates relating to astronaut activities. Women outnumber men in NASA astronaut class 2025: For the first time in its 67-year history, NASA’s astronaut class saw women outnumber men. The...
SpaceX has suffered another Integrated Flight Test failure and lost both Starship and its Super Heavy booster. The IFT-9 test flight of the Super Heavy/Starship combination took place from the Boca Chica base in West Texas at 2336 GMT on 27 May. All seemed to go well...
A string of recent orders indicates a rising appetite for point-to-point (P2P) deliveries on Earth, as the US military looks for ways to deliver large cargos anywhere in the world within an hour. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) of the US Department of Defense (DoD)...
The Starship/Super Heavy suffered a serious launch failure during a suborbital flight test, for the second time in a row. Numerous observers in the Bahamas and at least one aircraft saw the Starship stage break up into fiery debris at nearly nine minutes after its...
SpaceX suffered a launch failure on the seventh test flight of Starship after an unexpected leak and the ensuing explosion led to its untimely end. Some commercial airlines were affected after concerns were raised about falling debris from the launch vehicle. SpaceX...
Observed by Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump, the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Super Heavy/Starship combination lifted off at 2200 GMT on 19 November from Boca Chica, near Brownsville, Texas. Its primary aim was to enact a controlled splashdown in the...
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