[ad_1] After a poster on NASASpaceflight.com uploaded pictures of another Starship vehicle (f.k.a. BFR) under construction in Florida — to go along with prototypes being built in Texas — Elon Musk explained what’s going on. The CEO tweeted that “SpaceX is doing simultaneous competing builds of Starship in Boca Chica Texas & Cape Canaveral Florida.” […]
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Eat your heart out, Soundgarden
[ad_1] Self-healing space suits among 18 ideas to receive NASA funding If the recent cancellation of what would have been the first all-women space walk showed us anything, it’s that we desperately need spacesuits designed for (and in) the 21st century. NASA agrees and announced this week that it is awarding funding to universities to […]
Get an up-close look at SpaceX’s latest Starhopper test
[ad_1] Now that SpaceX started test firings and short “hop” tests on the launch pad at its Boca Chica, Texas site, it’s apparently comfortable enough to show off the results. Tonight Elon Musk — apparently unbothered by an internal investigation or ongoing wrangling with the SEC — tweeted this two second clip of the snub-nosed […]
SpaceX’s ‘Starhopper’ test vehicle takes a short Raptor-powered trip
[ad_1] As SpaceX proceeds with development of its Starship vehicle, it’s first testing out the spacecraft’s Raptor engines. Today a stubby Starhopper test vehicle mounted with a single engine — as opposed to the more advanced Phase 2 version shown above — completed its first tethered hop of just a few inches at the Texas […]