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  2. SpaceX Starship blew itself up in the air, Elon Musk’s ...

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    SpaceX’s Starship blew itself up in the air, Elon Musk’s private space company has said. ... to send the rocket almost into orbit and then have it land in the ocean. It completed the first ...

  3. SpaceX launched Starship for the sixth time but canceled the ...

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    Elon Musk's ambitions for settling Mars rest on SpaceX's Starship rocket system, which launched its 6th test flight on Tuesday without the main event. ... stage lands on a barge in the ocean and ...

  4. FACT CHECK: Did A SpaceX Rocket Explode Unintentionally in ...

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    A post on X implies that a SpaceX Super Heavy Booster rocket “exploded” unintentionally when landing in the Gulf of Mexico. Verdict: False The maneuver was pre-planned, and the result was ...

  5. Elon Musk’s Starship soars in successful test flight ... - AOL

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    SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lifts off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. ... landing in the Indian Ocean — with the company aiming for a more ...

  6. Falcon 9 first-stage landing tests - Wikipedia

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    The first tests aimed to touch down vertically in the ocean at zero velocity. Later tests attempted to land the rocket precisely on an autonomous spaceport drone ship (a barge commissioned by SpaceX to provide a stable landing surface at sea) or at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1), a concrete pad at Cape Canaveral. The first ground landing at LZ-1 ...

  7. Starship launch as it happened: SpaceX aborts ‘chopstick ...

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    SpaceX has just revealed that it is currently in the process of hiring engineers to meet its goal of building a new Starship rocket “every eight hours”. This is an unprecedented task, with ...

  8. Crew Dragon Pad Abort Test - Wikipedia

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    The vehicle splashed down safely in the ocean to the east of the launchpad in the Atlantic Ocean 99 seconds after the liftoff about 8 seconds earlier then planned. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] The landing site was expected to be about 2.3 km (1.4 mi) away from the launchpad but landed closer to shore then expected.

  9. Autonomous spaceport drone ship - Wikipedia

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    An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is a modified ocean-going barge equipped with propulsion systems to maintain precise position and a large landing platform.SpaceX developed these vessels to recover the first stage (also called the booster) of its launch vehicles.