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Ignition of a single Raptor engine on Flight 3 Starship demonstrating a flight-like startup for an in-space burn
Static fire of Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines ahead of Flight 3
Flight 3 Starship completed a full-duration static fire with all six of its Raptor engines
The mission carried iQPS’s QPS-SAR-5 satellite named “TSUKUYOMI-I” into orbit on a dedicated Electron mission from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The mission has been named “The Moon God Awakens” in acknowledgement of Tsukuyomi, the Japanese God of the Moon.
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on Landing Zone 4, completing our 250th landing of a Falcon first stage booster
Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through stage separation
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has thanked the engineers, technicians, and teammates at their Decatur, AL Booster Fabrication & Final Assembly, Centaur Tank.
SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket with 23 second-generation Starlink internet satellites. Following a scrub on Sunday, liftoff for the Starlink Group 6-25 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 7:20 p.m. EDT (2320 UTC) on Sunday.
Stage 1 of the Falcon 9 rocket completed its descent and landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, becoming the first booster for a commercial crew flight to return to the station for recovery
Starship and Super Heavy were loaded with more than 10 million pounds of propellant today in a flight-like rehearsal ahead of launch
Falcon 9's first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, completing the first 17th launch and landing of a booster.
The company briefly ignited one of the six Raptor engines on its Ship 26 Starship prototype on Friday (Oct. 20) at its Starbase site, on Texas' Gulf Coast. Single engine static fire demonstrating flight-like startup for a Starship deorbit burn.