The SpaceX Thread

A successful launch. The crew pod is on course for the ISS tomorrow morning. All going well, we shall see SpaceX launching peoples into the sky. Man alive! They really do make rocket launches and space travel give me goosebumps :love:
 
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If it does not get delayed I really can't wait for its second flight
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SpaceX's next-gen Starship completes first hopper test flight
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The Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy are the stars of the show for SpaceX, but the company's deep space aspirations rest on an even larger and more powerful vehicle known as the Starship. Today it flew this next-gen spacecraft for the first time ever, albeit only for a fleeting moment as the company commences sub-orbital hopper tests.
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More At: https://newatlas.com/spacex-starship-hopper-test-flight/60776/
 
Elon Musk Outlines the Next Few Weeks of Starship Tests

Despite a few setbacks in the past few months, 2019 is shaping up to be an exciting year for SpaceX. After a series of successful tethered hop tests, the ground crews at the company’s South Texas Launch Site in Boca Chica conducted the first free-flight test of the Starship Hopper late last month – which saw the test vehicle ascend to 20 meters (~65 feet), move laterally, and then land again.
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More At: https://www.universetoday.com/143085/elon-musk-outlines-the-next-few-weeks-of-starship-tests/
 
Elon Musk says he's embarrassed after a simple electrical fault scuppered his latest SpaceX launch

Elon Musk tweeted that he was embarrassed by the aborted flight attempt by Starhopper, the experimental rocket ship it's using as a prototype for its Mars-bound vehicle Starship.
Starhopper was supposed to embark on a flight 150 meters (492 feet) into the air before landing back on its launchpad in South Texas on Monday.
However, the flight was aborted with less than one second left before takeoff. Musk tweeted that the igniters which spark the rocket's engine had a wiring issue, and the rocket would try taking off again on Tuesday.
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More At: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-embarrassed-after-aborted-spacehopper-launch-2019-8?IR=T
 
Musk Presents the Orbital Starship Prototype. Flights will Begin in Six Months

On Saturday, Sept. 28th, SpaceX founder Elon Musk presided over a media circus at their testing facility in Boca, Chica, Texas. With the fully-assembled Starship Mk.1 as his backdrop, Musk shared the latest updates on the Starship launch system, which include a timetable for when the first test-flights, commercial flights and crewed flights will commence. Sometime next year, he promised, it will begin taking passengers to space!

The event, which was live-streamed, began at 07:00 PM local time (05:00 PM PDT; 08:00 PM EDT). Musk kicked things off by addressing the challenges that come with trying to escape Earth’s gravity well and going to space in a way that is cost-effective. He also took the time to acknowledge that it was 11 years ago, on that very day, that SpaceX conducted its first successful launch with their Falcon 1 rocket (after three failed attempts).

That milestone proved to be the difference between SpaceX – a fledgeling company founded six years prior (in 2002) – going bankrupt and becoming the powerhouse that it is today. A Falcon 1 rocket was also set up beside the finished Starship Mk.1 prototype to provide a sense of scale and to act as a visual reminder of just how far the company come.
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More At: https://www.universetoday.com/14356...p-prototype-flights-will-begin-in-six-months/
 
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