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SpaceX built the most powerful rocket in history without landing legs on its upper stage, designing
3+ week, 1+ day ago (440+ words) SpaceX has already caught a Super Heavy booster. Catching the re-entering Starship upper stage...
On 18 August, SpaceX logged its 100th launch of 2026, hitting that mark two months faster than
3+ week, 4+ day ago (727+ words) James Published August 19, 2026 · How we edit A rocket launch used to be an event. You cleared your schedule,...That reflex is worth keeping in mind, because what SpaceX did in the small hours of 19 August did not feel...made it…...
Falcon 9 booster B1067 was originally built around a goal of at least ten flights without major refurbishment. It has now launched and landed 36 times in barely five years—only three flights short of the 39 missions Space Shuttle Discovery accumulated across its entire 27-year career.
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1213+ words) B1067's 36 flights show how Block 5 moved beyond its original ten-flight maintenance goal, but comparing the first stage with Discovery requires care about what each vehicle did....
The United States recorded 178 rocket launches in 2025. Trump’s new national space policy directs
3+ week, 8+ hour ago (1090+ words) nine reentries. Fifteen launches took place at Rocket Lab’s Mahia site in New Zealand, because the FAA...fact remains clear through every counting system: SpaceX supplied most of the existing cadence. As SpaceDaily...a bet that high-frequency operations will spread…...
On 28 October 1971, a British Black Arrow rocket put Prospero into orbit from the Australian desert programme would end after this flight, leaving the next rocket to become an unflown museum exhibit.
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (611+ words) been told the programme would end. The unflown R4 rocket preserved the next step that never happened....
Starship's 33 engines push down with 74,400 kilonewtons at liftoff — roughly twice the force of the Saturn V that sent humans to the Moon, yet the whole vehicle is designed to be caught like a falling pencil and flown again the next day
4+ week, 19+ hour ago (1038+ words) SpaceX's bet is that catching and reusing a 5,000-tonne rocket is cheaper than building a new one, and the engineering...16, 2026 · How we edit At the moment of liftoff, SpaceX’s Starship pushes off the launch pad with approximately...that…...
After travelling 122 million miles in orbit, retired space shuttle Endeavour needed 68 hours to cover its final 12 miles through Los Angeles — crawling at no more than 2 mph as crews removed more than 400 trees to clear its 78-foot wingspan
1+ week, 5+ day ago (445+ words) A spacecraft that conquered zero gravity faced its greatest challenge on terra firma: twelve miles through suburban Los Angeles required removing 400 trees and sixty-eight hours of painstaking crawls. Published September 1, 2026 · How we edit Endeavour could cross the Pacific in about…...
In 1962, Canada’s first satellite went into orbit with a planned life of 1 year — Alouette sent useful data for more than 10 years, carrying long antennas that had been packed for launch by rolling the metal strips up like a carpenter’s measuring tape.
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (529+ words) Alouette I exceeded its one-year design life and used antennas that unrolled from compact coils into long tubular structures. Its radio observations left an enduring archive....
Space shuttle Endeavour weighed roughly 170,000 pounds, yet its final 12-mile journey through Los Angeles took 68 hours at no more than 2 mph—crews repeatedly stopped to trim trees and squeeze its 78-foot wingspan past obstacles with inches to spare.
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (1441+ words) Endeavour’s 12-mile museum journey took 68 hours because the 78-foot-wide orbiter advanced through Los Angeles one carefully checked clearance at a time. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit Space shuttle Endeavour had crossed the United…...
On 7 August, Elon Musk said Ship 40's ocean recovery was “not looking good.” Eleven days later, on 18 August, it was towed intact to waters off Christmas Island — the first Starship upper stage ever recovered intact after returning from space.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (891+ words) After 24 days at sea, recovery crews guided the first intact Starship upper stage to calmer water off Christmas Island, preserving an unprecedented post-flight test article....