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NASA plans unpiloted Starliner test flight at end of year – Spaceflight Now (opens the original)
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NASA is working with Boeing to launch an unpiloted Starliner capsule in the December-January time frame to test upgrades and improvements ordered in the wake of a 2024 mission that suffered multiple propulsion system failures, stranding two astronauts on the space station for more than nine months. If the unpiloted test flight goes well, NASA and Boeing hope to launch a piloted Starliner flight in mid 2028, officials said Monday, incorporating redesigned propulsion system valves, more robust sub
Starship returns to Earth; rocket splashes down north of Hawaii after three-hour flight – Spaceflight Now (opens the original)
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With thirteen suborbital test flights behind them, SpaceX engineers launched the company’s Super Heavy-Starship on its first flight to orbit Monday, a major step toward perfecting the world’s most powerful rocket for commercial flights and NASA moon missions. One of the Starship upper stage’s six Raptor engines shut down early during the climb to an initially suborbital trajectory. After assessing telemetry, Elon Musk’s flight control team decided the spacecraft was otherwise healthy and a secon
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch first Starlink V3 satellites to orbit on Starship – Spaceflight Now (opens the original)
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SpaceX is poised to send its Starship-Super Heavy rocket to orbit for the first time in program history on Monday, Sept. 28. The orbital launch attempt of the 124-meter-tall (407 ft) rocket comes 18 years after the company’s first launcher, the Falcon 1, reached orbit for the first time. The mid-morning mission is the 14th launch of the integrated Starship-Super Heavy rocket. Each of the previous 13 flights were intentionally flown on sub-orbital trajectories. SpaceX will monitor the health of t
Launch preview: SpaceX to launch first Starlink V3 satellites to orbit on Starship - Spaceflight Now (opens the original)
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Launch preview: SpaceX to launch first Starlink V3 satellites to orbit on Starship Spaceflight Now
Next crew bound for the space station arrive in Florida – Spaceflight Now (opens the original)
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The next quartet heading to the International Space Station arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday afternoon. They are scheduled to launch no earlier than 11:10 a.m. EDT (1510 UTC) on Thursday, Oct. 1. Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Joshua Kutryk and NASA astronaut Luke Delany piloted a pair of T-38 jets from NASA’s Johnson Space Center and landed at the Launch and Landing Facility under a largely cloud-less sky and with a light breeze. NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins rode alongsi
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