Starship Has Finally Gone Orbital. Now Comes the Hard Part
Reaching orbit for the first time was a major milestone for Starship, but the road to commercial viability remains long.
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Reaching orbit for the first time was a major milestone for Starship, but the road to commercial viability remains long.
SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time Monday, dropping off 26 next-gen Starlink satellites on flight 14. Engine trouble cut the planned 10-hour…
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp. put its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time today on the vehicle’s 14th test flight. Liftoff came at 8:49 a.m. EDT from Starbase in South Texas. The upper stage was back down in the Pacific a little over three hours later, well ahead of schedule.
Starship is slated to replace SpaceX’s reusable workhorse, the Falcon 9, which has allowed the Elon Musk-owned company to achieve a lucrative near-monopoly on satellite launches.
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Starship had already flown 99 percent of the way to low-Earth orbit. Monday's flight added the last bit.
SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket came back to Earth earlier than planned after its first orbital flight Monday, with an explosion visible on the company's livestream just after touchdown in the Pacific Ocean.Why it matters: The massive, fully-reusable Starship is key to SpaceX's commercial…
SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety. The spacecraft reentered over the Pacific and splashed down north of Hawaii three hours after blasting off from Texas.
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The race to build data centers in space is gaining momentum as AI drives unprecedented demand for computing power. Orbital facilities could tap into abundant solar energy and avoid many of the environmental challenges faced on Earth.
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