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Mar 14, 2024
SpaceX makes significant progress with third Starship orbital test flight
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
SpaceX is continuing to make progress on the development of Starship, the largest rocket ever built, with the third test flight Thursday accomplishing considerably more than the previous two tests.
The 400-foot-tall Starship rocket lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in southeastern Texas at 8:25 a.m. local time. Although SpaceX has been developing Starship for years, this is only the third time the company has attempted an orbital mission.
After liftoff, Starship proceeded through a nominal — aerospace speak for normal — ascend. All 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster performed as designed, and the two stages separated around 2 minutes 45 seconds into the mission. Critically, the launch vehicle nailed a novel stage separation technique called “hot staging,” where the upper stage (also called Starship) lights its engines to push away the Super Heavy booster. The hot-staging technique was performed for the first time, ever, during the second Starship test flight last November.
Mar 14, 2024
[4K] Watch SpaceX launch Starship, LIVE up close and personal!
Posted by Claudio Soprano in category: space travel
[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] This is the third fully integrated full stack test flight of Starship and the mighty Super Heavy booster, the largest and most powerful rocket to ever fly. It produces over twice as much thrust as the Saturn V that took humans to the moon.
The goal of the test is to get further along than IFT-2 in November, 2023, which didn’t see either the ship or the booster make it to reentry. If all goes well, Starship will re-enter in the Indian Ocean about 65 minutes after it lifts off from Starbase, TX, on a suborbital trajectory.
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Mar 14, 2024
SpaceX Launches Third Starship Flight Test
Posted by Claudio Soprano in category: space travel
SpaceX is targeting Thursday for the third flight of Starship. The license from the FAA was acquired. The flight will feature several upgrades to Booster and Ship, as well as a modification of the flight path to the Indian Ocean, instead of Hawaii. In space, SpaceX plans to demonstrate the payload dispenser door, and the capability to relight a Raptor in Space. Additionally, SpaceX wants to demonstrate the capability of in-space cryogenic propellant transfer.
The mission will attempt a soft splashdown of Booster 10 in the Gulf of Mexico, and a splashdown of Ship 28 in the Indian Ocean.
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Mar 14, 2024
Larry Ellison and Elon Musk teaming up to bring AI to farming
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, mapping, robotics/AI, space travel, sustainability
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is teaming up with Larry Ellison’s Oracle to help farms plan and predict their agricultural output using an AI tool.
Larry Ellison said on Oracle’s earnings call on Monday that it’s collaborating with Musk and SpaceX to create the AI-powered mapping application for governments. The tool creates a map of a country’s farms and shows what each of them is growing.
The Oracle executive chairman said the tool could help farms assess the steps needed to increase their output, and whether fields had enough water and nitrogen.
Mar 14, 2024
SpaceX aiming to launch massive Starship for the third time early Thursday
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: space travel
SpaceX will launch Starship early Thursday after receiving the green light from U.S. regulators.
Mar 13, 2024
Splashdown practice for Artemis 2 moon mission ‘an incredible experience,’ new NASA astronaut says (exclusive)
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
Mar 13, 2024
Zero-boil-off tank experiments to enable long-duration space exploration
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: space travel, sustainability
Do we have enough fuel to get to our destination? This is probably one of the first questions that comes to mind whenever your family gets ready to embark on a road trip. If the trip is long, you will need to visit gas stations along your route to refuel during your travel.
NASA is grappling with similar issues as it gets ready to embark on a sustainable mission back to the moon and plans future missions to Mars. But while your car’s fuel is gasoline, which can be safely and indefinitely stored as a liquid in the car’s gas tank, spacecraft fuels are volatile cryogenic liquid propellants that must be maintained at extremely low temperatures and guarded from environmental heat leaks into the spacecraft’s propellant tank.
And while there is already an established network of commercial gas stations in place to make refueling your car a cinch, there are no cryogenic refueling stations or depots at the moon or on the way to Mars.
Mar 13, 2024
How to watch SpaceX’s 3rd Starship launch test live online
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
The third orbital test flight of the 400-foot-tall megarocket could launch at around 8 a.m. EDT.
Mar 13, 2024
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will carry its own ‘golden record’ to Jupiter’s icy ocean moon
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
NASA’s Europa Clipper, aiming to lift off for Jupiter’s icy moon in October, will carry names, poetry and other symbols of humanity’s search for life beyond Earth.