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4 days ago · Liftoff is set for Oct. 13 at 8:25 a.m. EDT (1225 GMT). Update for 9:48am ET: SpaceX has successfully launched its Starship Flight 5 test flight and captured its Super Heavy booster for the first ...
4 days ago · The company achieved a major milestone during the fifth test flight of the vehicle, which could carry people to the moon and Mars, landing the rocket’s booster stage at a Texas launch site.
4 days ago · Launch is currently expected at 13:25 BST. Get comfortable - it’s going to be a nail-biting seven minutes. This page is stream only and there will be no regular text updates.
4 days ago · That target liftoff time is cutting it close for SpaceX’s 30-minute launch window, which opens at 7 a.m. CT (8 a.m. ET.) A launch window is a specific time frame in which a rocket is permitted ...
4 days ago · At its base are 33 Raptor engines, which together produce 16.7 million pounds of thrust — about double the 8.8 million pounds of thrust of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which launched for ...
4 days ago · SpaceX needs to get to a high flight rate—perhaps on par with where the company is today with Falcon 9—to pull its contract with NASA to land astronauts on the Moon with a version of Starship.
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[6]: 47, 101 The air temperature was forecast to drop to 18 °F (−8 °C) overnight before rising to 22 °F (−6 °C) at 6:00 a.m. and 26 °F (−3 °C) at the scheduled launch time of 9:38 a.m. [3]: 87 [6]: 96 Based upon O-ring erosion that had occurred in warmer launches, Morton Thiokol engineers were concerned over the effect the record-cold temperatures would have on the seal provided by ...