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With plans to launch the massive Starship from Florida next year, SpaceX defended its commitment to airspace safety after a Wall Street Journal article claimed an explosive mission in early 2025 was a greater danger to some flights than previously reported. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-spacex-defends-airspace-safety-florida.html Space Exploration Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:28:28 EST news685726082 SpaceX sent up its second launch in less than 24 hours on the Space Coast on Dec. 9, while also bringing home its booster for the last time on a landing zone it has been leasing for the last 10 years. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-spacex-national-mission-cape-canaveral.html Space Exploration Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:21:53 EST news684580838 The Department of the Air Force announced it had given the OK for SpaceX to move forward with its Starship and Super Heavy launch pad plans at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-spacex-starship-pads-canaveral-site.html Space Exploration Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:10:01 EST news683884929 There are tall, pointy metal tubes aplenty at Port Canaveral, but one is extra large. https://phys.org/news/2025-11-blue-1st-recovered-glenn-booster.html Space Exploration Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:02:55 EST news682758171 Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars. https://phys.org/news/2025-11-twin-mars-orbiters-glenn-rocket.html Space Exploration Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:18:04 EST news682316266 SpaceX is set to attempt the next test flight of its massive Starship rocket on Monday, as concerns grow that Elon Musk has overpromised his company's ability to deliver NASA's lunar projects and fulfill his own Mars ambitions. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spacex-starship-flight-monday.html Space Exploration Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:30:01 EDT news679580858 SpaceX executed the most successful flight test of its super-powerful Starship launch system to date, featuring Starship's first-ever payload deployment and a thrilling Indian Ocean splashdown. Today's 10th test flight followed three earlier missions that fell short of full success. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-blaze-glory-spacex-starship-distance.html Space Exploration Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:12:04 EDT news675511921 SpaceX has lined up its massive Starship and Super Heavy rocket for what would be its 10th suborbital test flight, aiming to complete goals that have fallen short so far in 2025. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-spacex-starship-tuesday-night-days.html Space Exploration Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:34:03 EDT news675444841 SpaceX on Tuesday was once again gearing up for the latest launch of its Starship megarocket after two successive postponements. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-spacex-starship-flight.html Space Exploration Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:40:01 EDT news675441483 Bad weather on Monday forced SpaceX to postpone the latest launch of its massive prototype Starship rocket, key to founder Elon Musk's dreams of colonizing Mars and NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-spacex-latest-starship-due-bad.html Space Exploration Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:20:01 EDT news675403972 SpaceX is gearing up for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket on Monday after a technical issue on the launchpad forced a 24-hour delay. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-spacex-megarocket-scrutiny.html Space Exploration Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:10:03 EDT news675355192 With SpaceX champing at the bit to begin construction of a new Starship launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, demolition began on June 12 to remove structures used by the previous tenant, United Launch Alliance. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ula-delta-iv-tower-demolished.html Space Exploration Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:58:32 EDT news669016708 SpaceX's prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk's dream of colonizing Mars. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-starship-megarocket-indian-ocean-latest.html Space Exploration Wed, 28 May 2025 04:41:54 EDT news667625477 SpaceX looks to get its developmental Starship back into space, this time with fewer explosions, and for the first time flying with a reused Super Heavy booster. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-aiming-explosive-spacex-starship-evening.html Space Exploration Tue, 27 May 2025 14:40:03 EDT news667574607 SpaceX is set Tuesday for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket—the linchpin of founder Elon Musk's Mars ambitions—after the vessel's last two outings ended in fiery explosions. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-spacex-starship-fiery-failures.html Space Exploration Tue, 27 May 2025 04:05:58 EDT news667537552 SpaceX's last two efforts to make progress on its Starship and Super Heavy rocket ended with streaks of debris hurtling across the sky. The Federal Aviation Administration, though, is now satisfied it's safe for SpaceX to try again. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-faa-spacex-starship-flight-destruction.html Space Exploration Mon, 26 May 2025 09:10:01 EDT news667467920 Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the moon next year on Artemis II, NASA's first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-nasa-crewed-moon-mission-spacecraft.html Space Exploration Tue, 06 May 2025 16:44:04 EDT news665768641 Launched way back in 1972, Kosmos-482 is about to meet a fiery end. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-soviet-era-venus-mission-reenter.html Space Exploration Thu, 01 May 2025 09:33:04 EDT news665310782 On March 15 at 8:15 p.m. Beijing time (March 14 at 8:42 p.m. EDT; 5:42 p.m. PDT), China launched two satellites atop a Yuanzheng-1S mounted on a Long March-2C rocket. While the first and second stages were successful, a technical launch with the upper stage prevented the satellites from reaching their intended orbit. Several months of rescue attempts followed as Chinese engineers tried to find a solution, which included deorbiting the satellites so they would burn up in the atmosphere. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-chinese-gravitational-slingshots-pair-satellites.html Space Exploration Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:12:04 EDT news664625522 SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Saturday its massive Starship rocket would leave for Mars at the end of 2026 with Tesla humanoid robot Optimus onboard, adding that human landings could follow "as soon as 2029." https://phys.org/news/2025-03-musk-starship-depart-mars.html Space Exploration Sat, 15 Mar 2025 07:10:04 EDT news661241399 Elon Musk's SpaceX on Thursday once again lost the upper stage of its massive Starship rocket in a fiery explosion, even as the booster was successfully caught in its orbital test—a near replay of the previous attempt. https://phys.org/news/2025-03-musk-spacex-setback-starship-explosion.html Space Exploration Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:20:01 EST news660543613 Elon Musk has been making headlines for mass layoffs and funding cuts at US federal agencies under his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But on Monday, his towering Starship rocket will return to the spotlight with its next test flight. https://phys.org/news/2025-03-spacex-monday-starship-megarocket.html Space Exploration Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:29:47 EST news660212977 Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket on Friday, following a dramatic mid-air explosion over the Caribbean during its last trial. https://phys.org/news/2025-02-spacex-friday-starship-megarocket.html Space Exploration Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:20:01 EST news659632420 Hours after Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin nailed its first-ever orbital mission, SpaceX seized back the spotlight on Thursday as its latest test of Starship, its gargantuan next-generation megarocket, ended with the upper stage dramatically disintegrating over the Atlantic. https://phys.org/news/2025-01-spacex-starship-booster-upper-stage.html Space Exploration Fri, 17 Jan 2025 03:34:23 EST news656307255 The upper stage for Europe's newest rocket Ariane 6 passed its final tests at ESA's facilities in the Netherlands last week, qualifying the upper stage for a launch on the most powerful, four-booster, variant of the Ariane 6 rocket. https://phys.org/news/2024-11-ariane-upper-stage-esa-temple.html Space Exploration Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:50:01 EST news650625149 The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June welcomed their new ride home with Sunday's arrival of a SpaceX capsule. https://phys.org/news/2024-09-stuck-nasa-astronauts-spacex-capsule.html Space Exploration Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:37:17 EDT news646889829 SpaceX shot up three Falcon 9 rockets from three launch pads last weekend once the Federal Aviation Administration gave its grounded rocket the OK to return to flight. Now it's set to go another round. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-spacex-company-50th-space-coast.html Space Exploration Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:10:01 EDT news642064026 SpaceX shot up three Falcon 9 rockets from three launch pads last weekend once the Federal Aviation Administration gave its grounded rocket the OK to return to flight. Now it's set to go another round. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-spacex-lines-space-coast-friday.html Space Exploration Fri, 02 Aug 2024 09:00:02 EDT news641807500 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has advanced the Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration (CRD2) Phase I project. Under this initiative, the demonstration satellite ADRAS-J, developed by Astroscale Japan Inc., has successfully captured images of space debris, a non-cooperative target, through "Fly-around observation." These images have now been released by Astroscale Japan Inc. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-fly-images-space-debris.html Space Exploration Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:20:01 EDT news641642477 After more than two weeks grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, SpaceX returned to launching its workhorse Falcon 9 lifting off early July 27 from Kennedy Space Center. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-spacex-flight-falcon-kennedy-space.html Space Exploration Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:00:01 EDT news641462260