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SpaceX Starship Stacking Produces the Tallest Rocket Ever Built
Starship SN20 as it’s being lifted to the top of the Super Heavy booster. Image: Elon Musk/SpaceX Earlier today, engineers…
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NASA Selects SpaceX to Build Upcoming Lunar Lander
Artist’s conception of SpaceX’s lander on the lunar surface. Image: SpaceX SpaceX has won a lucrative NASA contract to build…
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ISS Ditches 2.9-Ton Pallet of Batteries, Creating Its Most Massive Piece of Space Trash
The external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries, photographed shortly after being released by the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The object…
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Elon Musk Explains Why the Starship SN10 Prototype Exploded After Landing
Photo: Loren Elliott / Stringer (Getty Images) The third high-altitude test of a SpaceX Starship prototype ended with a successful…
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SpaceX Attempts Third High-Altitude Starship Test
The launch of SN9 on Feb. 4, 2021. Image: SpaceX The third high-altitude test of a SpaceX Starship prototype is…
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FAA Ends Investigations Into Crashed SpaceX Starship Prototypes: Report
Photo: Bill Ingalls/NASA (Getty Images) The Federal Aviation Administration has ended its investigations into SpaceX’s last two Starship prototype tests,…
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