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Satellite swarms may outshine the night sky’s natural constellations 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 24, 2021
“Mega-constellations” from those satellites will be visible to the naked eye, simulations suggest

By David Aragorn
Inspiration4: Who are the four civilians joining SpaceX’s pioneering trip to orbit?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 14, 2021
Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Christopher Sembroski and Sian Proctor are to be launched into orbit

By David Aragorn
NASA halts human moon lander work with SpaceX amid Blue Origin lawsuit 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 21, 2021
NASA and SpaceX will stand down until Nov. 1.

By David Aragorn
Elon Musk shows off fully stacked SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy rocket 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 6, 2021
It’s a “dream come true” for the SpaceX founder who has his sights set on Mars.

By David Aragorn
Elon Musk’s SpaceX a Step Closer to Mars As Starship’s Super Heavy Booster Test a Success 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 21, 2021
SpaceX has successfully conducted a three-engine “static fire” test on the third iteration of its Super Heavy booster, one of the key components behind its ambitions for interplanetary travel.

By David Aragorn
Touchdown! SpaceX successfully lands Starship rocket 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 8, 2021
SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts.

By David Aragorn
Mission to clean up space junk with magnets set for launch 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 2, 2021
It’s invisible in the night sky, but above us there is a cloud of more than 9,000 tons of space junk — equivalent to the weight of 720 school buses.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX Starship prototype explodes on landing in test flight mishap 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 1, 2021
SpaceX launched a prototype Starship rocket Tuesday from its Boca Chica, Texas, flight facility, successfully sending the silver booster up to an altitude of about six miles as planned. But the unpiloted test flight ended with a spectacular explosion when the rocket failed to right itself and slow down enough for a tail-first landing.

By David Aragorn
Here are the highlights from a busy year in space launches 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2020
So many things launched into space this year: Six humans traveled aboard commercial crew vehicles, three spacecraft began journeys to Mars and several hundred distractingly shiny satellites took to the sky.

By David Aragorn
SpaceX Starship Explodes On Landing, But Still Hailed As Successful Test 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 12, 2020
SpaceX’s Starship SN8 has exploded on landing, after reaching a height of 12.5 kilometers (7.8 miles) in its first high altitude test flight. The complete destruction of the spacecraft is not quite the setback for Elon Musk’s plans to colonize Mars it might seem. The chance of a successful landing were considered slim, and the company is hailing the rest of the flight a success.

By David Aragorn