A massive Starship spacecraft by SpaceX exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas last week, which Elon Musk’s space firm attributed to a “major anomaly.” The Starship rocket appeared to have experienced at least two explosions in rapid succession, lighting up the night sky and sending debris flying, according to video capturing the […]
Starship’s controlled plunge into the Indian Ocean just 65 minutes after launching from Texas capped the latest advance in the company’s test-to-failure rocket development campaign, a multibillion-dollar effort by Elon Musk’s space company to build a reusable satellite launcher and moon lander. The three previous test missions ended with Starship blowing up or disintegrating. The […]
San Francisco: SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claims to be living in a modest $50,000; 37-square-metre prefab guest house in Boca Chica; Texas, has bought a $250,000 ticket to space from fellow billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic. The Wall Street Journal reports that Musk had bought a ticket for his space ride before […]
Starship a prototype of a SpaceX rocket the company hopes will one day journey to the moon and Mars has exploded in a roaring ball of flames as it tried to land upright after a test flight in Texas. It was the second such accident after the last prototype of the Starship met a similar […]
