Space Stories from NASASpaceflight.com: Recent Episodes
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This week in spaceflight: Firefly Aerospace makes history with a successful Moon landing, while Intuitive Machines’ Athena mission doesn’t go as planned. Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 suffers another major failure, and rumors swirl about a Chinese rocket explosion at the launch pad. With NASA missions failing, ESA retiring old spacecraft, and even Cygnus getting damaged before launch, space isn’t having the best week. But there’s still plenty of excitement ahead, and we’ve got all the details!
NSF's Adrian Beil compares and contrasts SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's Lunar Lander. Do we need both?
NSF News Director Thomas Burghardt walks us through a quick summary of the spaceflight news of the week.
NSF's News Director Thomas Burghardt takes us through the Spaceflight news of the week.
In this SpaceX update, we cover the recent developments at the launch site and production site. Ship 26 completed two cryogenic proof tests before being lifted from Pad A, and it has been rolled back to the production site for potential engine installation or further testing. A new LR1750 crane has been erected near the rocket garden, which could be used for constructing a potential new high/mega bay at the production site. Meanwhile, work on Booster 7 and the Orbital Launch Mount continues at the launch site. We also check on Ship 25 at the Massey Test Site and provide updates on the production of new ship and booster sections.
NSF's Writer Adrian Beil analyzes the most recent Booster 7 Static Fire, the thrust and countdown, and looks to the next steps on the path to the Orbital Flight Test.
NASASpaceflight.com News Director Thomas Burghardt takes us through the Spaceflight News of the past week.
Thomas Burghardt, NSF News Director, leads the NSF Team in a flyover of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. They discovered many changes from last month's flyover.
NASASpaceflight.com's Sawyer Rosenstein looks at the scientific impact of the Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars. Now 2 years into their planned 2 year mission, they are already making history and making significant contributions to our knowledge about Mars and our solar system.
NSF's Jack Beyer takes us through the progress at Starbase before and after SpaceX's Historic 31-Engine Static Fire of Booster 7.
NASASpaceflight.com News Director Thomas Burghardt takes us through the Spaceflight News of the past week.
This past week at Starbase, SpaceX has been busing getting ready for more Booster testing. Booster 7 had 3 Raptor engines swapped along with other work. Foundations for an expansion of the tank farm were spotted and parts for a water deluge system arrived via barge from Kennedy Space Center.
'Starship Will Launch Soon,' but what is the road to orbit? NSF's Adrian Beil dissects SpaceX's path from infrastructure improvements, to Booster and Ship Upgrades, to Regulation requirements. How Soon is Soon? Is Starship ready to launch? NSF's Adrian Beil takes a deep dive into the upcoming tests before the first Orbital Launch of Starship.
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NASASpaceFlight's Sawyer Rosenstein examines the possibility for SpaceX to launch 100 rockets in one year, as Elon Musk has said they intend to do.
NasaSpaceflight.com asked its members what they were looking forward to in space flight in 2023. NSF's Assistant Managing Editor Chris Gebhardt counts down the Top 10 potential milestones and puts them all in context.
2022 was a record breaking year in spaceflight for SpaceX and other launch providers worldwide. NASASpaceflight.com's Jack Beyer takes a look at 2022's milestones from Artemis I to Starship.