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In the test mission, SpaceX’s Starship launched toward space atop a Super Heavy rocket booster. That could be the determining factor in how long it takes the company to get a new Starship on the launch pad. Such investigations are routine and have taken place after previous — but smaller-scale — Starship test launches in South Texas. Joe Skipper/ReutersSpaceX is not permitted to make another launch attempt of a Starship vehicle until that review is complete. NASAThe US space agency was not directly involved in the Starship flight test, but it has a major stake in Starship’s overall success.

☆ SpaceX Is Pushing to Quickly Launch Another Starship, NASA Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Illustration: Jordan KranseSpaceX believes it can repair damage to the launchpad used for its first Starship flight and will be ready to fly a second rocket by early summer, the leader of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said. “It blew a hole in that launchpad,” Bill Nelson, the agency’s administrator, told lawmakers at a House Science Committee hearing on Thursday, referring to SpaceX’s inaugural Starship flight on April 20.

Fish and Wildlife Service. Damage to the launch pad, the floor of which was largely demolished during liftoff, was visible in photos of the aftermath. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Fish and Wildlife Service findings. The April 20 launch was days after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted SpaceX a license to launch the Starship via its Super Heavy rocket booster. REUTERS/Joe Skipper 1 2 3The report by the Fish and Wildlife Service, part of the U.S.

☆ Why Starship’s Explosion Is Part of SpaceX’s Process
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Juul’s Fall From $38 Billion Startup to Near-Bankruptcy: What Went Wrong Juul sparked a vaping craze when it launched, making it one of the most valuable startups in 2018. Five years later, its value has gone up in smoke. WSJ explains Juul’s collapse and what’s next for the e-cigarette company. Illustration: Nayon Cho

☆ SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket was too powerful for its own good
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Chris Panella | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Rocks and other debris fly around remote cameras as SpaceX’s Starship lifts off atop its Super Heavy booster for the first time. Starship was too strong for its launchpadA field of debris surrounds Starship's launchpad after the rocket's launch blew up concrete beneath it. Debris litters the Starship launchpad, with damaged fuel tanks visible in the background. PATRICK T. FALLON / Contributor / Getty ImagesThere were no injuries related to the Starship launch, according to the FAA. In addition to the mishap investigation, SpaceX must request a modification to its launch license in order to fly another Starship.

☆ Photos show SpaceX's Starship rocket blew a crater into its launchpad and flung concrete chunks hundreds of feet during liftoff
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

SpaceX's Starship blew a huge hole in its launchpad during takeoff last week and scattered debris. Members of the public walk through a debris field around the Starship launchpad at SpaceX's facilities near Boca Chica, Texas. It was also missing a water-deluge system, which helps further reduce energy blast around the launch site during liftoff. Rocks and other debris fly around remote cameras as SpaceX’s Starship lifts off atop its Super Heavy booster for the first time. Last week's flight was the first time SpaceX launched a Starship rocket on top of it its Super Heavy booster.

☆ In 24 Hours, Elon Musk Reignited His Reputation for Risk
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Tim Higgins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the span of 24 hours this past week, Elon Musk made three very big bets with three very different companies, together showing his penchant to plow ahead despite sizable risks. Between Wednesday and Thursday evenings, he stripped celebrities, journalists and other high-profile users of their free, legacy verification on Twitter, risking a VIP revolt on the social-media platform. He promised that the electric-car maker Tesla Inc. would chase sales volume at the expense of profitability. And he launched SpaceX’s first of its kind giant space rocket, which exploded on the way to the heavens.

☆ SpaceX Starship’s explosion is not the failure it appears to be, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Rocket launches are like opening a box of chocolates, only riskier — you never know what you’re going to get. When a rocket is set to leap off the launchpad, there’s a good chance of seeing a stunning liftoff or a spectacular failure. The lead-up to this week’s launch of SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, was a dramatic roller coaster. The rocket blasted off from the launchpad in South Texas and roared 24.2 miles (39 kilometers) over the Gulf of Mexico. Now, researchers have a new theory about why the Vikings abruptly departed in the mid-15th century: rising sea levels.

☆ After SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Explosion—Debris, Data and Analysis
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: @LabPadre via StoryfulSpaceX on Friday is taking stock after the company’s Starship rocket exploded a few minutes after lifting off the day before in southern Texas. So are several local officials, regulatory and environmental agencies. Regulators said they were analyzing what the launch meant for nearby natural areas and public safety. Environmental groups and some local residents have raised concerns about the impact of SpaceX’s activities on and around its base.

☆ Podcast: Iowa evangelicals, SpaceX and music's AI Oasis
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ SpaceX’s Starship Kicked Up a Dust Cloud, Leaving Texans With a Mess
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As the most powerful rocket ever built blasted from its launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday, the liftoff rocked the earth and kicked up a billowing cloud of dust and debris, shaking homes and raining down brown grime for miles. In Port Isabel, a city about six miles northwest where at least one window shattered, residents were alarmed. “It was truly terrifying,” said Sharon Almaguer, who, at the time of the launch, was at home with her 80-year-old mother. During previous launches, Ms. Almaguer said she had experienced some shaking inside the brick house, but “this was on a completely different level.”Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starship exploded minutes after liftoff and before reaching orbit. Near the launch site, the residents of Port Isabel, known for its towering lighthouse and less than 10 miles from the border with Mexico, were left to deal with the mess.

☆ Twitter descends into chaos as news outlets and brands lose verification
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Several prominent Twitter users including LeBron James, William Shatner and Stephen King also refused to pay to keep their verification badges, prompting Musk to personally intervene. “My Twitter account says I’ve subscribed to Twitter Blue. My Twitter account says I’ve given a phone number. Twitter verification is no longer an indicator that an account represents who it claims to represent; instead, it reflects that a user – or, apparently, the owner of Twitter – paid for Twitter Blue, the company’s subscription service. Isaacson, who is verified on Twitter as a subscriber to Twitter Blue, tweeted a photo of Musk on Thursday from SpaceX’s Starship launch site.

☆ SpaceX Starship launch: Was it really a 'success?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —After the first test launch of a SpaceX Starship rocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed — ended in an eruption of flames over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, the company sought to frame the mission as a success. Within the space industry, Thursday’s Starship test mission wasn’t considered an outright failure, Caleb Henry, director of research at the space research firm Quilty Analytics, said. The SpaceX Starship exploded after launch for a flight test on April 20, 2023. There isn’t just one Starship vehicle that’s spent years in the development pipeline. The SpaceX rocket that flew on Thursday “was really just a bare bones,” Reisman added.

SpaceX cleared the final regulatory hurdle standing before the inaugural launch of its Starship rocket last week. “After a comprehensive license evaluation process, the FAA determined SpaceX met all safety, environmental, policy, payload, airspace integration and financial responsibility requirements,” the FAA said in a statement. Some background: SpaceX had been waiting more than a year to get FAA approval for this launch. In June, the FAA granted SpaceX one key approval for launching Starship, though it laid out a list of “mitigating actions” the company would need to take before the first launch. The FAA official also said government personnel will be on the ground to ensure SpaceX complies with its license during the test launch.

☆ SpaceX’s Starship Explodes Shortly After Launching Uncrewed Test Flight
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: SpaceXSpaceX’s Starship exploded a few minutes after launching an initial, uncrewed test flight Thursday morning, abruptly ending the inaugural flight of a vehicle that Elon Musk wants to use one day for pioneering deep-space missions. The company launched the rocket at roughly 9:30 a.m. ET from a launchpad in South Texas, according to a SpaceX live stream. A trail of flames poured out of the engines installed on the booster used for the first stage of the flight.

☆ SpaceX’s Starship ‘Learning Experience’ Ends in Explosion
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Kenneth Chang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded above the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, minutes after lifting off from a launchpad in South Texas. There were no people aboard the spacecraft, the most powerful ever to launch. While it failed to reach orbit, it was not a fruitless failure for the private spaceflight company. Before the launch, Elon Musk, the company’s founder, had tamped down expectations, saying it might take several tries before Starship succeeds at this test flight. The brief flight produced reams of data for engineers to understand how the vehicle performed.

☆ Live Updates: SpaceX Prepares Again to Launch Starship Rocket
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

PinnedSpaceX’s first attempt on Monday to launch Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, was called off. During a livestream for a different SpaceX launch on Wednesday, the company noted that another Starship postponement was possible. Credit... Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWhy didn’t Starship launch on Monday? Splashdown Near Hawaii Launch SpaceX Starbase Boca Chica, TexasStarship is designed to be entirely reusable. About eight minutes after the launch on Thursday, the Super Heavy booster will splash into the Gulf of Mexico.

“As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation,” SpaceX tweeted. The massive Super Heavy rocket booster, which houses 33 engines, lifted off and sent a massive boom across the coastal landscape as it fired to life. NASA administrator Bill Nelson took to Twitter to share his congratulations on the flight test. Looking forward to all that SpaceX learns, to the next flight test —and beyond.”The test flight comes after years of explosive tests, regulatory hurdles and public hyping from Musk. SpaceX's Starship lifted off for the uncrewed test flight in Boca Chica, Texas.

☆ SpaceX readies for another attempt to launch Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The Starship spacecraft, which stands at 164 feet (50 meters) tall, rides atop the rocket. The Starship rocket sits on the SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 15, 2023. In the lead-up to the first launch of the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket, which held the title of most powerful rocket before NASA’s Space Launch System took flight last year, Musk foresaw only a 50-50 chance of success. “People (came) from all around the world to see what will either be a great rocket launch or the best fireworks display they’ve ever seen,” Musk told CNN at the time. The inaugural Falcon Heavy launch in 2018 was ultimately successful.

☆ Elon Musk Lowers Expectations for SpaceX’s First Starship Launch Attempt
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Spectators gather to see the SpaceX Starship. BROWNSVILLE, Texas—Elon Musk sought to lower expectations for SpaceX’s inaugural launch attempt of Starship, the immense rocket that his space company is preparing to try to fly on Monday morning. Mr. Musk told listeners Sunday evening during a Twitter discussion that the company faces serious challenges pulling off the operation, pointing to potential hazards that could stem from the dozens of engines that would power the rocket off a launchpad.

☆ Bellyflops, Booms and Big Rockets: A Recap of SpaceX’s Starship Tests
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Kenneth Chang | Josephine Sedgwick | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket not only is huge but also designed to be fully reusable. That means when it returns to Earth, it has to survive re-entry and land softly, vertically and in one piece. Look back at the test launches — some more successful than others — that prepared SpaceX for its latest, most ambitious flight. It all started with a few small jumps …

☆ Meet the brothers building massive spacecraft to leverage SpaceX’s Starship
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Michael Sheetz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

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.

☆ SpaceX Cleared for Space-Station Crew Launch After Delay
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Preparing for the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Wednesday. SpaceX is slated to launch a crew to the International Space Station early Thursday, a makeup date for a mission that the company and NASA scrubbed earlier this week due to a technical issue. The delay was a rare hiccup in SpaceX’s work handling high-profile human space flights for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Elon Musk-led rocket company has conducted six of those missions for NASA since 2020, when it blasted off the first astronauts from the U.S. in close to a decade.

☆ SpaceX curbed Ukraine's use of Starlink internet for drones -company president
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's military from using the company's Starlink satellite internet service for controlling drones in the region during the country's war with Russia, SpaceX's president said Wednesday. Speaking later with reporters, Shotwell referred to reports that the Ukrainian military had used the Starlink service to control drones. SpaceX has privately shipped truckloads of Starlink terminals to Ukraine, allowing the country's military to communicate by plugging them in and connecting them with the nearly 4,000 satellites SpaceX has launched into low-Earth orbit so far. Governments including the United States and France have paid for other shipments of Starlink terminals on top of those funded privately by SpaceX. Starlink had suffered services outages in Ukraine late last year, for reasons SpaceX did not explain.

CNN —SpaceX just attempted to ignite all 33 engines in a test fire of its gargantuan Super Heavy rocket booster. The Super Heavy booster started its engines for less than 10 seconds while still strapped to the launchpad. Only 31 engines were lit, however, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed Thursday in a tweet. SpaceX conducted the test fire without the Starship spacecraft mounted on top of the booster. It should be noted that SpaceX is still awaiting a license from the Federal Aviation Administration to move forward with an orbital flight test.

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