SpaceX has cleared a major hurdle toward sending Starship to spacebut it has a list of changes to make before Elon Musk’s Mars rocket can fly. The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said it’s completed an environmental assessment of the company’s plan to send the next-generation vehicle to orbit for the first time. After months … Read more
What’s happening Federal regulators are allowing plans for the first orbital test flight of Starship to move forward. Why it matters The federal government could have required a more lengthy and detailed environmental review for Starship. What’s next SpaceX must make dozens of changes to its launch plans and take additional steps to secure a … Read more
The Federal Aviation Administration published its highly anticipated environmental assessment of SpaceX’s Starbase launch site and the Starship launch program on Monday, with the agency finding that SpaceX’s plans would not result in significant impacts to the environment — but requiring the company to implement a number of mitigation measures before it can start conducting … Read more
What’s happening The federal agency overseeing commercial space launches isn’t quite ready to give a green light to Elon Musk’s big rocket. Why it matters A required review is taking several months longer than initially expected, and Musk is already way behind his initial timeline for sending humans to Mars via Starship. What’s next The … Read more
NASA strategies to make use of several exclusive spacecraft to land astronauts on the Moon under its enthusiastic Artemis job. Originally, it had actually selected just the Elon Musk-owned SpaceX yet it appears the United States area company has actually been reassessing its technique. The company, today, introduced that it intended to sustain the growth … Read more
SpaceX will delay the maiden flight of Starship, the spaceship designed to move people to Moon and Mars, as it’s switching priorities to cyber defence and overcoming sign jamming, CEO Elon Musk mentioned. The tech billionaire didn’t say what or who was inflicting these assaults on SpaceX. However Musk and his SpaceX-operated Starlink Web satellite … Read more
Starship Applied sciences, one of many greater gamers on the earth of autonomous supply robots — the small, boxy automobiles that self-drive round cities and closed campuses delivering meals and different small gadgets — has raised one more spherical of funding, simply 30 days since its final monetary infusion. The corporate, based and developed in … Read more