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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took social media on Thursday to address the launch, saying that an oxygen or fuel leak in the cavity could have occurred above the ship engine firewall.
Elon Musk stated in April 2023 that SpaceX expected to spend about $2 billion on Starship development in 2023. [241] [242] In a 2024 response to a lawsuit, SpaceX stated that the cost of the Starship program was approximately $4 million per day. [243]: 25–26 Adding that any day of delay to the Starship program represented a loss of $100,000.
SpaceX aborted an attempt to catch its Starship rocket on Tuesday in a blow to Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions.. The sixth Starship flight test saw SpaceX once again attempt to catch the rocket’s ...
Elon Musk eyes more tests in 2025 SpaceX launched just two Starship flight tests in 2023 before increasing the demos to four in 2024, with the final one of the year taking place in November.
Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, estimated in a tweet that eight launches would be needed to completely refuel a Starship in low Earth orbit, enabling it to travel onwards. [6] Development began in 2012, when Musk described a plan to build a reusable launch vehicle with substantially greater capabilities than the Falcon 9 and the planned Falcon ...
After the mission, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated that a propellant leak was the probable cause of Ship 33's failure: "Preliminary indications suggest an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall, which was substantial enough to build pressure beyond the venting capacity." [25]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship successfully pulled off another spectacular launch on Tuesday — but aborted an attempt to catch the Super Heavy booster rocket with the “Mechazilla” arms ...
In 2009, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk articulated ambitions for "creating a paradigm shift in the traditional approach for reusing rocket hardware". [1] In October 2014, SpaceX announced that they had contracted with a Louisiana shipyard to build a floating landing platform for reusable orbital launch vehicles. Early information indicated that the ...