Keith’s note: SpaceX Starship 13 certainly did its thing: Booster soft landing, ship in orbit. 40 second Raptor relight, 20 Starlink Version 3’s deployed, all of which worked, smooth reentry […]
Starship
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Starship V 3.0 First Flight
Keith’s note: The V 3.0 edition of the SpaceX Starship made its maiden flight tonight. The first stage with its sexy new Raptor 3 engines and total vehicle redesign did […]
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Starship Flight 11
Keith’s note: SpaceX Launched the 11th flight of Starship this evening. The first stage came back exactly as planned. Ship made it to orbit and worked smoothly. Payload doors opened […]
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SpaceX Ship 36 Just Blew Up
Keithâs note: a few minutes ago, during a routine pre-flight test, SpaceX Ship 36 blew up. Video below.
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Starship Flight 9
Keith’s 28 May Update: I just did an interview with Al Jazeera about the SpaceX Starship 9 flight Audio. Keith’s 27 May note: I just did live coverage of the […]
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Starship 8 Update
Keith’s note: The Starship 8 launch resulted in yet another flawless catch of the Heavy booster first stage and the loss of the Ship upper stage.
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NASAWatch on TV: Athena And Starship
Keith’s note: I was just on Deutsche Welle TV talking about the IM-2 landing [audio]. The Intuitive Machines Athena Lander is on the Moon. They are shutting down things that […]
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NASAWatch On Bloomberg TV: Starship 7
Keith’s note: I was just on Bloomberg TV for live coverage of the SpaceX Starship 7 flight. [Audio] They recovered the first stage perfectly but they lost comms near the […]
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Starship Completes Another Test Flight
Keith’s note: I was just on CNN with Wolf Blitzer to talk about today’s Starship test flight.
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SpaceX Catches A Starship
Keith’s note: the SpaceX Starship made an apparently flawless launch and return landing this morning – a landing that included being caught by two giant robotic arms at its launch […]