FAA clears SpaceX Starship's Flight 9
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The Explosive Flight of Starship SN8: What Really Went WrongSpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 suffered another dramatic failure - but why? Just like Flight 7, the upper stage exploded in space, scattering debris over the Bahamas. What went wrong this time ...
SpaceX's Starship SN9 managed to climb even higher than SN8 on Feb. 2, 2021 before experiencing its own fiery explosion upon landing. It reached its target altitude of about 6.2 miles (10 ...
SpaceX has previously run afoul of the FAA in Starship testing. Notably, the company launched a 2020 test flight of a prototype rocket, called Starship SN8, without obtaining prior approval from ...
The aerospace company, founded by Elon Musk, is laser-focused on bringing Starship into operational use. Since April 2023, SpaceX has launched five test flights of the skyscraping rocket and ...
SpaceX launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship mega rocket on its seventh test flight Thursday, successfully "catching" the first stage booster back at its firing stand but losing its new ...