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Which of your children is most passionate about SpaceX and Mars? Elon Musk was asked. Here's what he replied.

August 03, 2022 / 03:23 PM IST

Elon Musk has spoken time and again about his dream of colonising Mars but do any of his nine children share in his vision of making humanity a multi-planetary species? If the billionaire entrepreneur behind SpaceX is to be believed, his two-year-old son X A-12 does.

On Tuesday, the official Twitter handle of Galaxy Heroes cryptocurrency posed a question to Elon Musk: Which of your children is most passionate about SpaceX and Mars?

Elon Musk has nine children, including X A-12 whom he welcomed in May 2020.

After losing his firstborn son Nevada Alexander Musk, Elon Musk had twins Griffin and Vivian with author Justine Wilson in 2004.

The former couple also has triplet sons Kai, Saxon and Damian, who were born two years later in 2006.

With Grimes, Musk also has a daughter, Exa Dark Siderl Musk, whom they had via surrogacy in December 2021.

Last month, court documents obtained by Business Insider revealed that Musk also had twins with Shivon Zilis, a top executive at Neuralink, in November 2021. After the information was made public, the richest man on earth said he was doing his bit to combat falling birth rates.

"Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis," tweeted Musk. "A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far," he added.

It was also reported last month that Musk spent most of his time talking about Mars and extolled the virtues of boosting birth rates on Earth at a tech conference, skirting around the topic of his deadlocked Twitter deal.

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Elon Musks father, Errol Musk, is making headlines again. This time, however, the headlines in question are not focused on reportedlyhaving children with a stepdaughter.

Over the weekend, Errol appeared on Australias The Kyle and Jackie O Show, with the hosts asking him about Elons accomplishments. At around the 1:43 mark in the video below, for example, Errol is asked if he is proud of Elon, to which a no is offered before the question is even finished being asked.

Pushed to clarify whether he is indeed not proud of Elon, Errol pointed to what he described as the larger familys assortment of accomplishments, including those he says precede Elons own.

No. I mean, we are a family that have been doing a lot of things for a long time, he said. Its not as though we suddenly started doing something. So weve all been, you know, as a family all doing things from the very beginning and, um, so, I mean, the kids were traveling with me around the world when they were tiny. Theyve been doing pretty much very interesting things. Weve been down to the Amazon together, for example. Weve been to China, you know, long ago when it was quite difficult to get there.

In Errols opinion, Elonwhose brother Kimbal is a successful restaurateuris not as happy as hed like to be because he believes he is behind schedule.

Also broached during the conversation is the aforementioned stepdaughter development, headlines about which Errol responded to, in part, by saying the following: I was married to her mother for two years in the 90s. She was actually placed in foster care.

If you absolutely must subject yourself to it, the full interview can be heard below.

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A futuristic 3D-printed space habitat that has been designed to fit inside Elon Musks Starship has been unveiled at a school in Switzerland.

It is the worlds tallest and has been set up at the Institut auf dem Rosenberg, a private international boarding school.

The Rosenberg Space Habitat is a three-storey structure that can house a crew of two.

It was built for analogue missions, or field tests that simulate deep-space missions, and will be used as a research centre for students.

As space agencies plan to build human bases on the Moon and Mars, space habitats will play a crucial role in sheltering astronauts and can be used on Earth for research.

This latest one was designed by Saga Architects, the same company that built a compact shelter that housed two of its own architects for 60 days in Greenland a location used to simulate the harsh lunar conditions.

The Rosenberg Space Habitat is a three-storey structure that can house a crew of two and was built for analogue missions field tests that simulate deep-space missions. Photo: Institut auf dem Rosenberg

Bernhard Gademann, director general of Rosenberg, told The National that the habitat would help in the students education on space subjects.

We have designed it as an experimental lab for students to explore and actively shape the future of humanity on our planet and beyond, Mr Gademann said.

Our aim is to provide future leaders with early exposure to the question of advanced space exploration, allowing our students to approach and solve these complex questions from a collaborative and holistic point of view.

We know that this new era of space exploration will have a critical impact on the future of our planet, from developing technologies to address the pressing challenges of sustainability on Earth, to the prospect of mining of precious resources in space.

The habitat is the worlds tallest 3D-printed polymer structure, measuring seven metres.

The first floor is dedicated to hygiene, lab research and workshop facilities that will include robots.

Work, recreation and entertainment will be carried out on the second floor, while the top floor is designated for privacy and rest.

The structure was designed to fit inside SpaceXs Starship, a rocket Elon Musk is developing to carry humans and cargo to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

It is set to be the worlds most powerful rocket, with its first orbital test flight expected to take place this year.

It is a fully reusable system that includes a booster rocket that will carry the Starship spacecraft to space.

The choice of using the Starship system as a carrier is due to its advanced delivery capabilities, as well as its ingenious and reusable approach that resonates with the Rosenberg commitment to sustainability, said Mr Gademann.

The idea of the Rosenberg Space Habitat was for our team of students to consider all aspects of space travel as closely as possible to the real thing, including the successful transportation and delivery of their habitat to space.

This degree of realism in prototyping helps students to approach problems from a holistic perspective, allowing them to consider the laws of physics but also to prioritise and combine features of the habitat.

He said that this process would help pupils to ask important questions about the needs of humans in space.

Students and researchers will use the habitat to carry out experiments ranging from testing technology to studying human behaviour while in isolation.

Experiments conducted from the RSH will explore human well-being, using facilities to test hardware and software tools and applications, and to develop monitoring tools for remote mission control systems, Mr Gademann said.

Learners will also explore the importance of sensory stimulation in remote living environments with light, sound and scent installations.

Valuable experiential learning projects will enhance skills in systems-thinking by working with automated mechatronics and observing independent communication and deeper learning of artificial intelligence.

Other companies are also building space habitats, including Spartan Space, a French start-up responsible for an inflatable structure called EuroHab.

This year, a prototype of the unit was put on display at the Abu Dhabi University.

EuroHab, which can house up to four astronauts, would be a secondary shelter to the landers that astronauts will live in while on the surface.

This would allow human beings to explore the surface for longer periods.

During the Apollo era, astronauts could explore for a only limited time before the light support system on their suit failed and they would have to return to their lander.

The EuroHab lunar habitat at Abu Dhabi University. Photo: Spartan Space

Updated: July 29, 2022, 6:00 PM

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If Russia departs ISS "after 2024" -- as it's threatening to do -- NASA will need to act quickly to find a replacement.

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Russia plans to leave ISS by 2024. Can it stay in orbit without them?

Russia's withdrawal from the International Space Station would force NASA and partners to find new ways to keep the space station in orbit.

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Russia plans to abandon the International Space Station in 2024.

That was the headline that shocked the space community last week, when Russian news agency TASS quoted new Roscosmos Chief Yuri Borisov saying that Russia will "withdraw from this station after 2024" and attempt to build a new, all-Russian space station instead. But perhaps investors should be looking at this less like a surprise, and more like ... an opportunity?

After all, when the International Space Station (ISS) began operating in 2001, it was expected to remain in operation for about 15 years. It's 2022 now, so obviously that initial plan has been revised. Still, as far back as 2016 (ISS's original "expiration date"), Russia was already making noises about wanting to abandon the project, detach its modules, and use them as the basis for a new, all-Russian station.

Continual negotiation between the U.S., which wants to use ISS to train private companies to build their own stations, and Russia, which up until 2020 was making a good business selling "seats" on Russian rockets, has extended ISS's lease on life first through 2025, then 2028, and most recently all the way out to 2030. But ex-Roscosmos boss Dmitry Rogozin has complained that ISS costs "colossal money" to maintain, and the Russian government has been saying for years it would prefer to spend its money on a wholly owned Russian station, to be named the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS).

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Now, with the advent of Russia's war on Ukraine and the arrival of a new "cold war" mentality in the U.S. and Russia, Russia may be ready to call it quits on ISS. (Or it may not. A separate Reuters story that followed the TASS report by mere hours cited other Russian officials saying Russia might stick with ISS through 2028.)

If Russia does jump ship, it isn't necessarily the end of the mission While a multinational effort comprising elements provided by the United States, Russia, Japan, Europe, and Canada (roughly in that order), the bulk of ISS belongs to the U.S. In fact, only about 17% of the space station's mass is "Russian." But the most important part of that 17% is the station's Zvezda ("Star") service module, which is the engine of the station that enables it to maintain its orbit and maneuver around space junk.

If and when Russia abandons ISS -- taking Zvezda with it that's the part that NASA must replace if it wishes to keep ISS in operation through 2030. And this could be an opportunity for companies that can capitalize. If Russia does leave ISS, NASA could be forced to rush out an award to a U.S. company to take over Zvezda's role. Several names suggest themselves as candidates for this role and potential recipients of a NASA contract to build a Zvezda replacement.

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SpaceX is probably the name that leaps first to mind. Elon Musk's pioneering space company has proven itself adept at solving all sorts of space problems, from reusable launch rockets to communications satellites to moon landers. SpaceX is, however, a private company, offering investors little chance to profit from it even if it wins an ISS contract.

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Fortunately, two other publicly held space companies are more attractive.

Boeing(NYSE: BA), for example, served as NASA's prime contractor in building ISS in the 1990s and 2000s and probably knows ISS better than anyone else. Boeing also now has a flight-proven, (almost) human-rated spacecraft the Starliner that's capable of reaching ISS and using its engines to course-correct the space station as an ad hoc engine, while working on a more permanent solution.

Another publicly traded space company that would have a good shot at winning a Zvezda replacement contract is Northrop Grumman(NYSE: NOC). Like Boeing's Starliner, Northrop's Cygnus supply ships can reach ISS and in fact, NASA has plans to try using Cygnus's engines to course-correct ISS on a future flight, to test out this option.

Northrop even won a contract to build a habitation module for NASA's planned lunar space station, the Lunar Gateway, basing its design on what else? a Cygnus supply craft. And if NASA thinks Northrop is qualified to build modules for its new space station, it stands to reason Northrop would be first in line to win a contract to build new modules for NASA's old space station as well.

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Right now, it's hard to say how serious Russia is about exiting ISS ahead of schedule. But if it does leave, given the ambitious plans several space companies have announced in recent years to build their own space stations but to first practice space station operations and procedures aboard ISS I think there's a good chance NASA will seek an interim solution to keep ISS flying for a few more years.

If that proves to be the case, Boeing and Northrop (and SpaceX) are all prime candidates to benefit from a new ISS contract.

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Enlarge / The Wentian experimental module and the Long March 5B rocket are seen near its launch site on July 18, 2022.

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Things have been falling out of the sky of late. Fortunately, no one has been hurt, but two recent space debris events offer a good reminder that what goes up often does come down.

This past weekend, a huge Chinese rocket broke apart in the atmosphere above Southeast Asia, with large chunks of the 24-metric-ton booster landing in Indonesia and Malaysia. Some of this debris fell within about 100 meters of a nearby village, but there have been no reported injuries.

The debris came from a Chinese Long March 5B rocketlaunched on July 24 to deliver a module to the country's new Tiangong space station. The large rocket has a core stage and four solid rocket boosters mounted to its side. With the rocket's design, the core stage also acts as the upper stage, delivering its payload into orbit. Because the YF-77 engines cannot restart, the core stage typically reenters the atmosphere about one week after launching when used for low Earth orbit missions.

This sets up an uncontrolled reentry through the atmosphere, and while most of the 30-meter-long rocket breaks up due to heating, significant chunks make it to the surface of the Earth. This time, it looks like much of the debris fell into the Sulu Sea, between the Philippines and Borneo.

China has offered only limited comments on the return of the Long March 5B rocket. However, after the booster's splashdown, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released a statement critical of China for not sharing tracking information about the rocket's return.

"The Peoples Republic of China did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth," Nelson said. "All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property. Doing so is critical to the responsible use of space and to ensure the safety of people here on Earth."

As the Chinese rocket plummeted back to Earth, reports also emerged this weekend of debris found in New South Wales, in the southeastern part of Australia. Three pieces of debris were eventually recovered and linked to the "trunk" of the Crew-1 spacecraft launched by SpaceX in November 2020. One of the pieces was about three meters long, and the debris was said to fall to the ground in the remote area on July 9.

The Dragon trunk provides power to the spacecraft during flight from its solar panelsand also houses unpressurized cargo. The spacecraft sheds the trunk shortly before a deorbit burn, and it then spends about one year in orbit before returning to Earth, finally being dragged down by the upper edge of the atmosphere. SpaceX has not provided specific information about the mass of the trunk, but it is likely 3 to 4 metric tons.

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Teslas profit fell from $18.8 billion in the first quarter and $16.9 billion in the second quarter: report Photo: File

Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur who owns Tesla and SpaceX, is preparing to build his own private airport.

According to a foreign media report, Elon Musk plans to build his own airport near Austin in the US state of Texas.

According to sources close to Elon Musk, the report states that no final decision has been made on the required land for the airport, however, according to an estimate, the community hangar of Austins Executive Airport is 130,000 square feet, while Run The land of Way is 6 thousand 25 square feet.

According to the report, construction of the airport is not possible soon as it requires the approval of the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA).

Keep in mind that according to the revenue report released by Tesla, the companys profit has decreased compared to the first quarter of $18.8 billion and Teslas second quarter profit was $16.9 billion.

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Its been nearly a year since satellite Internet-of-Things connectivity provider Swarm was acquired by SpaceX, and Swarm co-founder and CEO Sara Spangelo (now senior director of Satellite Engineering at SpaceX) is ready to talk about what Swarms been up to in that time. SpaceX is not known to be a super acquisitive company, so I was curious to hear about what its been like for Spangelo and for Swarm. Mostly, its been 10 months of rapid acceleration, she says.

One of Swarms biggest blockers in terms of speed of deployment and growing its network was the ability to actually launch its satellites, which themselves are tiny the company says theyre the smallest operational satellites in space, at little more than the size of your average sandwich. Spangelo said that unlocking launch availability has been one of the biggest benefits of operating under the SpaceX umbrella so far.

Access to basically free launch is pretty exciting, she told me in an interview. We actually have launched probably three or four times since we last spoke [Editors note: in June 2021 for our Found podcast], and we now have over 160 satellites in LEO [low-Earth orbit] some of those are experimental.

Those experimental payloads have helped the company improve its overall latency, so now it can guarantee latency at under one hour (meaning a Swarm satellite passes overhead any given point on Earth at least once an hour), which opens up broad new customer categories and applications for its low-bandwidth, hyperefficient connectivity services.

Thats a pretty important threshold, if youre doing any sort of monitoring, whether its floods, water, forest fire detection, agriculture applications, logistics applications thats like a pretty important threshold in that community, Spangelo explained. So being low [latency], that has unlocked a bunch of exciting new use cases and customers.

Swarms tiny satellites have essentially been hitching a ride on SpaceX launches for other customers, where its easy for the company to just pop them on in Spangelos words. Satellite launch tends to be a game of ounces because of weight considerations, but the benefits of being the smallest operational satellites in space mean that you stand a better chance than most of fitting within existing mission payload parameters for SpaceXs Falcon 9 rockets even with other cargo on board.

While access to regular orbital delivery service is incredibly valuable to a technology like Swarms, Spangelo says that its also unlocked a host of other efficiencies that help the previously small startup leap ahead in terms of its maturation and infrastructure.

Weve had access to just more support systems, she said. So legal, accounting, HR, recruiting, logistics, supply chain and production. Thats also helped us accelerate a lot of our production rate, [and] our hiring rate. Weve been scaling up and well probably do 10x the number of devices sold this year vs. what we did last year.

Of course, its a two-way street (it wouldnt make much sense as an acquisition otherwise) and Spangelo says SpaceX is already benefiting plenty, too.

Were also supporting SpaceX in a bunch of ways, from engineering and technology, and regulatory strategies, to lots of other programs that hopefully we get to talk about in the future, she said, reserving details on just what those programs might entail for now. I suggested that some kind of marriage between Starlinks consumer internet service and Swarms connected device offerings might make sense, and she did agree that there are synergies theyre exploring there.

Were definitely having product discussions across the chasm that is Starlink broadband, to Swarm IoT and everything in between, she said. And the roadmap really fills in a lot of the gaps between those things that youre hinting at. Certainly on the enterprise side, weve started to engage with some of the same enterprise customers. You can imagine big agriculture companies, or oil and gas, or maritime companies have need for broadband, as well as for satellite IoT. So weve definitely been able to benefit from those mutual relationships really both ways: Some Swarm customers are interested in Starlink, and vice versa.

With new use cases and new sales relationships, as well as plenty of demand on both sides, Spangelo says both Starlink and Swarm within SpaceX are still growing their teams despite the current macroeconomic conditions, especially when it comes to specific types of talent.

A lot of people dont know that Starlink is actually kind of a networking company, she said. We think of [SpaceX] as a hardware rocket company a bunch of mechanical engineers. But the sophistication of the software, networking algorithms, back ends at the core networks and laser mesh networks, its incredibly complicated. So we have, I think, over 200 software engineers on Starlink, and 500 or so at [SpaceX]. But we are definitely looking for incredible talent there.

As for what Spangelo is excited that Swarm has been able to do, and do better, working as a SpaceX company, she mentioned a number of new use cases that have come online since we last spoke, including wildfire detection. With a max of under one hour of latency, and often results that refresh in minutes, you can change considerably the approach to detection and mitigation of wildfires, which can spread for hours or even days without people knowing when monitored only through traditional methods. Swarm is working with a number of companies there, including Berlin-based Dryad Networks.

Another recent customer, Rainforest Connection, uses Swarms IoT network to connect simple acoustic sensors deployed in the Brazilian rainforest.

Basically, they have just an acoustic sensor, like you have on your phone, and it basically just hears a chainsaw, and then calls in the people that will stop the [deforestation], she said. That one is just so cool to me that such a simple sensor can have like such a big impact, because its so hard to find these things.

As for what the future holds for Swarm, Spangelo says that theyre actually pretty pleased with where the satellite hardware and design is currently, though theyre looking to build more software products for enterprise customers. There are also some products that are more standalone that are actually more appropriate for tracking use cases, and some of the bigger enterprise use cases that dont require the sophisticated integration of their current modem design, she said, something more on brand with Elon Musks out of the box philosophy; something she said has already had influence on the product side.

Meanwhile Swarm continues to operate out of its facility in Mountain View, just a short distance from a nearby SpaceX office, making collaboration relatively simple. The Falcon 9 launch pads are a little farther away, but you cant beat the price for the ride.

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SpaceX is fighting against a possible regulatory change, saying it could cripple the company's Starlink satellite-internet business.

The potential change involves the 12 gigahertz (GHz) frequency band, which SpaceX's Starlink spacecraft and many other satellites use to beam data to the ground.

Early last year, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began thinking about opening the band up for extensive terrestrial use, as The Verge noted (opens in new tab). Dish Network has thrown its hat into this ring, proposing to use the 12 GHz band for its new 5G network.

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SpaceX is not happy about this idea, saying that its implementation would harm Starlink and other current 12 GHz users, perhaps irrevocably.

"Essentially, the band would become unusable," David Goldman, senior director of satellite policy at SpaceX, said during a call with reporters on Tuesday (July 26). "It would potentially end services for customers in that band."

SpaceX studies have found that Starlink customers would get interference about 80% of the time if the 12 GHz band were opened up for 5G use, Gold said.

"There is no service that anybody would use where you're getting blocked, you're getting outages, 80% of the time," he said.

Dish and other groups have disputed such numbers, claiming that they're part of a "disinformation campaign" that SpaceX is waging against the 5G plan.

"This tactic, which is commonly used by Elon Musk, is not only disingenuous, but it promulgates an anti-5G narrative that is harmful to American consumers who deserve greater competition, connectivity options and innovation," the 5Gfor12GHz Coalition, which counts Dish as one of its 35 members, said in a statement earlier this month (opens in new tab). "It also stands to threaten America's global leadership in the 5G and technology sector as other countries outpace the nation in delivering next-generation services."

SpaceX has been fighting against the proposed 12 GHz rule change along multiple fronts. It has submitted multiple documents to the FCC laying out the envisioned ramifications, for example. And the company recently emailed Starlink customers "to let them know what was going on and to let them know how they could weigh in with the FCC, if they wanted to," Goldman said.

To date, about 100,000 people have written to the FCC asking them not to allow the rule change, he added. (It's unclear how many of those are Starlink customers, of which there are more than 400,000 in the United States, according to SpaceX.)

SpaceX has launched more than 2,900 Starlink satellites (opens in new tab) to low Earth orbit so far, and the megaconstellation could still grow by leaps and bounds. The company already has approval to launch 12,000 Starlink spacecraft, and it has applied for permission to loft up to 30,000 more as well.

Starlink is an important part of SpaceX's ambitious long-term exploration plans. Musk, the company's founder and CEO, has said that revenue from Starlink will help fund the development of Starship, the next-generation transportation system that SpaceX thinks will allow humanity to settle Mars.

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SpaceX's Starlink will soon have major design changes as part of the independent aerospace agency's efforts to mitigate its satellites' brightness.

Ever since Elon Musk announced that he plans to create a giant artificial constellation consisting of thousands of Starlink cube sats, experts have shared their concerns.

Astronomers, astrologers, and other researchers studying the night sky said that they are worried that the satellites will reflect too much light, preventing them from observing important space objects.

Now, SpaceX announced three solutions it would use to mitigate Starlink's brightness.

According toPC Mag's latest report, the independent space company is now working on several enhancements for its Starlink cube satellites.

(Photo : Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, speaks during the Satellite 2020 at the Washington Convention CenterMarch 9, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

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SpaceX shared its exact plans via its official "Brightness Mitigation Best Practices for Satellite Operators" document.

These include the following:

Before the space agency announced its three new brightness mitigation plans, SpaceX had already tried various methods to reduce the reflected light of its Starlink satellites.

One of these is using a sun visor to block the Sun's incoming light. However, this component also affects the laser links of Starlink satellites.

Because of this, SpaceX decided to remove the Starlink sun virus. If you want to learn more about the recent efforts made by SpaceX to lessen Starlink's brightness, you can click thislink.

Recently, experts claimed thatSpaceX Starlinkcould allow the United States to dominate cyberspace.

On the other hand,SpaceX Starlink helped Ukraineusers, allowing hundreds of thousands of residents to have an internet connection.

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Apart from dealing with the legal battles involving his refusal to proceed with Twitters acquisition, Elon Musk will have some extra stress from SpaceX. According to a fresh report, a SpaceX rocked had an accident on its way to the companys factory in Hawthorne, California. The trailer collided with it while passing a bridge with low ground clearance.

SpaceXs operational roadmap shows that the company builds engines and rockets at its Hawthorne plant. Then, it proceeds and sends them to McGregor, Texas, for testing. Once the testing phase is complete, the rocket return to its origin. It can even go to different regions, depending on its purpose.

The Falcon 9 rocket saw itself in the middle of an accident on its way from McGregor To Hawthorne. The rocket hit a bridge on a Texas highway while in transit. In a subsequent blog post, NASA confirmed the accident and confirmed that the rocket was used for the Crew-5 launch mission to the International Space Station in September. NASA says that the damage is not so big. Apparently, it goes from the part between the rocket booster and the spacecraft. SpaceX and NASA have inspected the rocket to make sure other areas are intact.

Worth noting that the SpaceX Crew-5 mission includes NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada. Furthermore, it has Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and Russian Anna Kinika.

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