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SpaceXs Starship destroyed on return to Earth at end of third test flight – The Guardian
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SpaceX achieves historic milestone in launch of world’s largest rocket into space but Starship lost on reentry – Fox Weather
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SpaceX launch: Starship reaches new heights in test for NASA missions – USA TODAY
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SpaceX’s incredibly powerful Starship lost in the Indian Ocean after reaching orbit for 1st time – Livescience.com
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SpaceX's Starship rocket just reached orbit for the very first time, but now it's gotten lost upon reentry.
The giant rocket the biggest and most powerful ever built blasted off from its launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday (March 14) at 9:25 a.m. EDT (1:25 p.m. GMT), entering the stratosphere just minutes later with a record-breaking 16.5 million pounds (7.5 million kilograms) of thrust. Standing 394 feet (120 meters) tall, Starship can carry 10 times the payload of SpaceX's current Falcon 9 rockets.
The launch is the rocket's third test flight, and its first one to reach orbit; the previous two ended in dramatic explosions of the craft's 33-engine Super Heavy booster rocket that culminated in an environmental lawsuit. After conducting a number of maneuvers during the spacecraft's hour-long flight in orbit, mission control reportedly lost contact with Starship as it reentered Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the Indian Ocean.
Starship likely broke up or exploded over the ocean, SpaceX confirmed.
"The team has made the call that the ship has been lost, so no splashdown today," Dan Huot, SpaceX's communications manager, said during the company's livestream of the launch. "But again, just it's incredible to see how much further we got this time around."
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"Starship reached orbital velocity!" Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX wrote in a post on X, formerly called Twitter, shortly after the successful launch. "Congratulations SpaceX team!!"
Once the rocket was in flight, mission engineers completed a number of tests, including re-lighting its engines in space and opening its payload door, before steering the craft back to splash down in the Indian Ocean. However, during reentry, the team lost contact with Starlink SpaceX's satellite internet service and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System that it uses to keep an eye on its rockets.
SpaceX intends to use future versions of Starship to transport crews, spacecraft, satellites and cargo to various locations in the solar system both for its own purposes and on behalf of NASA. The U.S. space agency is slated to use Starship's Human Landing System to transport humans to the moon's surface for the first time since 1972, for the upcoming Artemis 3 and 4 missions.
Starship is designed primarily with cheap and efficient manufacturing in mind, using inexpensive stainless steel for its construction and methane which SpaceX says can be collected on Mars to power the rocket. It is designed to be reusable and can carry a payload of up to 275 tons (250 metric tons) in its non-reusable state, around 10 times that of SpaceX's current Falcon 9 rockets.
SpaceX doesn't appear to be too concerned about its misplaced rocket and often states that failures during early test phases are normal.
"Each of these flight tests continue to be just that: a test," SpaceX said in a statement released before the launch. "They aren't occurring in a lab or on a test stand, but are putting flight hardware in a flight environment to maximize learning."
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SpaceX Starship Rocket Lost On Re-EntryHeres What To Know – Forbes
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Jeff Bezoss Blue Origin Could Race SpaceX to the Moon – The New York Times
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SpaceXs Starship gets FAA approval for third test flight – The Washington Post
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The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday granted SpaceX a license that allows the company to launch its massive Starship rocket again, possibly as early as 8 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, though weather at its South Texas facilities could force a delay.
The flight would be the third attempt to reach orbit for the worlds most powerful rocket, a towering two-stage vehicle that NASA intends to use to land astronauts on the moon. During the first test flight, in April of last year, the vehicle blew up its launchpad, started tumbling after liftoff and eventually exploded. SpaceX which follows an iterative approach to the development of its systems, allowing them to fail and then trying again quickly flew a second attempt in November that showed improvement, though the rocket self-destructed before reaching orbit.
The vehicle, collectively called Starship, comprised the Super Heavy booster and a spacecraft that sits on top. It is designed to be fully reusable, landing back at its launch site. NASA is investing about $4 billion into the system and intends to use it for the first human landings on the moon since the Apollo era.
In a statement, SpaceX said that the 110-minute launch window would open at 8 a.m. Eastern and that its webcast would go live about 30 minutes before.
On Starships last flight, upgrades to the launchpad, including a water suppression system, allowed it to survive the violence of takeoff, when all of the rockets 33 first-stage engines successfully ignited. The vehicle made it through stage separation, and the upper-stage engines fired as well. But as the booster started to ignite 13 of its engines to fly the rocket back to Earth, one engine failed, quickly cascading to a rapid unscheduled disassembly, the phrase SpaceX uses to describe a loss of vehicle. The spacecraft was lost after a leak led to a fire and its autonomous onboard flight termination system destroyed the vehicle.
After the flight, the FAA oversaw SpaceXs investigation and said in February that it had accepted the companys report. As a result, the FAA required SpaceX to complete 17 corrective actions, including hardware redesigns, updates to engine-control algorithms and the installation of fire protection measures.
SpaceX said that upgrades derived from the flight test will debut on the next Starship and Super Heavy vehicles. It added in a subsequent statement that each of these flight tests continue to be just that: a test. They arent occurring in a lab or on a test stand but are putting flight hardware in a flight environment to maximize learning.
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SpaceX launches Starship on the third flight test of the program Spaceflight Now – Spaceflight Now
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SpaceXs Starship rocket launches for a third time in program history on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now
SpaceXs Starship rocket took to the skies over Texas for a third time Thursday morning. The launch, approved on Wednesday afternoon by the Federal Aviation Administration, managed to navigate some tricky weather on its ascent.
Liftoff of the worlds tallest rocket currently flying took place at 8:25 a.m. CT (9:25 a.m. ET, 1325 UTC), towards the back end of a 110-minute window. The vehicle was stacked for launch late last week at SpaceXs Starbase launch and manufacturing site in southern Texas near Brownsville.
The mission represents the shortest time between second and third flights for a commercial, orbital rocket. Both the Falcon 1 and the Falcon 9 spent more than a year between those two flights.
This mission flew a markedly different flight path compared to the previous two missions. SpaceX sent the Ship 28 upper stage nearly halfway around the world, with a splash down in the middle of the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar, as the intended target.
SpaceX lost contact with Ship 28 nearly an hour after liftoff, but before its intended splashdown. The Super Heavy Booster 10 first stage also fell just short of reaching its full own full splashdown profile in the Gulf of Mexico.
In a similar fashion to the crewed launches at NASAs Kennedy Space Center, a group of astronauts also performed a flyby of the rocket currently perched on the Orbital Launch Mount at Starbase ahead of the launch. This time, it was a pair of jets owned by businessman Jared Isaacman, which carried the crew of the forthcoming Polaris Dawn mission.
The third flight of the Polaris program is set to feature the first crewed launch of a Starship rocket.
Unlike the first two flights of Starship, the FAA issued a pair of primary documents connected to this mission: a Tiered Environmental Assessment and a Finding of No Significant Impact/Record of Decision (FONSI/ROD).
The FONSI concluded that pivoting to a splashdown in the Indian Ocean as opposed to off the coast of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean (as was the aim for the first two Starship launches) would not significantly impact the quality of the human environment within the meaning of NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act of 1969).
Because of that, the FAA determined that they wouldnt need to create a new Environmental Impact Statement. The FAA also agreed with SpaceXs proposed action that would allow for a total of ten nominal operations, including up to a maximum of five overpressure events from Starship intact impact and up to a total of five reentry debris or soft water landings in the Indian Ocean, within a year of issuance of a concurrence letter from that National Marine Fisheries Service.
In response to a post on X, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said that they were aiming for at least six more flights this year.
Ramping up the cadence of Starship flights is going to be important not only for SpaceXs ambitions with the program, but also for NASA.
Starship needs to launch several times successfully to prove its viability to work as the lander that will bring NASAs astronauts to the surface of the Moon during the Artemis 3 mission, which is currently set for September 2026.
Before that happens though, they will need to perfect the ability to transfer propellant from one Starship rocket to another, which in and of itself will require 10 launches or more. SpaceX will also need to perform an uncrewed landing on the Moon, which is currently scheduled for sometime in 2026 as well.
During IFT-3, teams also performed a propellant transfer demonstration within the Ship 28 upper stage. SpaceX also intended to demonstrate a relight of one of the Ship Raptor engines as well as open and close the payload bay door during the coast phase of the mission, but they had to skip the engine demo.
In an effort to help long-term infrastructure, SpaceX is also exploring acquiring Space Launch Complex-37 (SLC-37) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as a possible launch site for Starship once its no longer supporting United Launch Alliances (ULA) Delta 4 Heavy rocket.
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is overseeing this process and recently held in-person, public meetings along Floridas Space Coast as well as a virtual meeting. All the comments gathered will be assessed against the proposal and a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) will be issued in December 2024 with a final EIS anticipated by September 2025.
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