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With its recent Starship mission, SpaceX is poised to cut launch costs 10-fold, said an expertThe firm flew its flagship mega-rocket to space without exploding on Thursday for the first time. AdvertisementSpaceX's Starship launch on Thursday didn't only look cool. SpaceX has already shaved launch costs downStarship-Super Heavy is the biggest launch system ever developed. AdvertisementA picture shows Starship fully stacked on its launchpad. "Lowering launch costs has always been the first step to unlocking broader, deeper sources of value from space," he said.
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Watch SpaceX try to skim Earth's orbit with its Starship rocket on Saturday. The launch was initially planned for Friday, but a grid fin actuator needed to be replaced postponing the launch, SpaceX announced Thursday on X. If the rocket launch succeeds this weekend, the giant spaceship will reach space for the first time. When stacked, Starship stands at almost 400 feet tall and 30 feet wide. AdvertisementSpeaking in an earlier interview in June, Musk had estimated this Starship launch had about a 60% chance of reaching its goal.
Persons: Elon Musk's, , Elon Musk, Musk, we've, Abhi Tripathi, Tripathi, Space.com Organizations: SpaceX, Service, NASA, International Astronautical Federation, Super Locations: Mars, Boca Chica , Texas, Gulf of Mexico, of Mexico, Hawaii
Elon Musk said he thinks Starship has a "decent chance" of reaching orbit on its second test flight. AdvertisementAdvertisementSpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Thursday the company's Starship vehicle has a "decent chance" of making orbit on its second test flight. But it has yet to reach orbit. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Technically, it's a scooch below orbit," Musk said Thursday. Tripathi added that he would consider this second test flight to be a success if two things happen.
Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, , we've, Ashlee Vance, Vance, Abhi Tripathi, Tripathi Organizations: Service, International Astronautical Federation, SpaceX
AdvertisementAdvertisementMore than a thousand changes have been made to the rocket since and it is now "ready to launch" again Musk recently said. SpaceX's enormous Starship mega-rocket is made of two stages: the Starship spaceship and its booster, the Super Heavy booster. The Starship-Super Heavy launch system is made up of two stages. Instead, for Starship's maiden test flight, SpaceX decided to see if they could absorb the force of the flames with a thick concrete launchpad alone. The FAA will still need to review the changes made to the Starship launch system before it can grant a new license.
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What we're finding is that, with the new launch capabilities of vehicles like Starship, there's actually an interesting opportunity to go the opposite direction," Karan Kunjur told CNBC. Los Angeles-based startup K2 Space, co-founded by CEO Karan Kunjur and CTO Neel Kunjur, is setting out to build satellite buses — the physical structure of a spacecraft that provides power, movement and more. A pair of brothers is aiming to challenge the way spacecraft are built, by going against the industry trend and designing massive satellites in a bet that towering rockets such as SpaceX's Starship are the way forward. K2 Space, a play on the brothers' surname and a nod to astronomer Nikolai Kardashev's scales of civilization, marks Karan and Neel's first venture together and fuses their previously divergent careers. For K2, the company is targeting prices that would be unheard of for satellite buses of these sizes.
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