SpaceX’s original ambition of repurposing two oil rigs to launch its Starship vehicle has been scrapped, but the company is still keen to explore the possibility of incorporating offshore launch platforms into its long-term ambitions. SpaceX Ditches Oil Rigs &…
Let’s talk about how we can use the moon for a greater purpose in the decades and centuries to come. We should build spaceships on the moon, use them as humanity’s first interstellar spaceport, and use it to finally gain…
Elon Musk revealed the first official renders of SpaceX’s Starship Factories. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk plans to build 1000 spaceships to transport humans to Mars and establish a colony there. He calls these spaceships the modern Noah’s Arks vessels that…
NASA awarded SpaceX a contract to develop a new dragon variant, named the Dragon XL, to transport cargo to the Lunar Gateway as part of the Artemis program. Editors’ Recommendations: The agency selected SpaceX to deliver cargo to the Gateway,…
The Super Heavy is the lower stage of the most powerful rocket ever built, the Starship. It could launch to orbit in 2022. A Look at How SpaceX Plans to Test 29 Raptor Engines Two Scientists Are Building a Real…
SpaceX is developing a massive methane engine called Raptor that will power its next-generation rocket, called Starship. So far, SpaceX has only performed a few pressure tests on Booster 4, their most complete Super Heavy booster. So, they will start…
The “Starlink” project by SpaceX and Elon Musk aims to make high-speed Internet available everywhere. Many satellites are required for this – that is a source of criticism. The private space company SpaceX of Elon Musk wants fast Internet from…
