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The lunar gold rush is coming, space experts say, and it needs a fully functional Starship. Leroy Chiao, a retired NASA astronaut who consulted for SpaceX on its Safety Advisory Panel for 12 years ...
SpaceX has moved a new iteration of its Starship model to its Starbase in Texas for preflight testing. The new model, which CEO Elon Musk described as the "V2 Starship," is the latest development in ...
SpaceX’s Starship completed its ninth integrated flight test (IFT-9) on May 27, 2025, as it moves closer to full reusability. This flight, the first in the program’s history to reuse a super heavy ...
That will happen in 2027 at the earliest and require a Starship to get two astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface and back off again. Dunn writes for the Associated Press.
To get a Starship lander to the moon, SpaceX must first get it into low-Earth orbit, then launch multiple Super Heavy-Starship "tankers" to refuel the moon-bound Starship for the trip to lunar ...
The company's lunar Starship, known as the Human Landing System, has been slow to take shape since the company won the contract in 2021, and it faces some formidable technical challenges — not ...
A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar ...
Recently, two events — the second attempt by Intuitive Machines to land on the moon and the eighth test of the SpaceX Starship — proved an old adage: Rocket science is really hard. Both of ...