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Trump Scuppers Idea of Calling Musk After Row, May Ditch Tesla

This is Beirut, 06/06 19:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump has no plans to speak to billionaire Elon Musk and may even ditch his red Tesla car, the White House said Friday after a stunning public divorce fraught with risk for both men. Trump's camp insisted that he wanted to move on from the row with the South African-born Musk, with officials telling AFP that the tech tycoon ...

Starship Megarocket Blows up Over Indian Ocean in Latest Bumpy Test

This is Beirut, 28/05 11:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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SpaceX's prototype Starship exploded over the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, capping another bumpy test flight for the rocket central to billionaire Elon Musk's dream of colonizing Mars. The biggest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built lifted off around 6:36 pm (2336 GMT) from the company's Starbase facility, near a southern Texas village that ...

SpaceX set for Next Starship Launch After Fiery Failures

This is Beirut, 27/05 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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SpaceX is set Tuesday for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket -- the linchpin of founder Elon Musk's Mars ambitions -- after the vessel's last two outings ended in fiery explosions. A launch window opens at 6:30 pm (2330 GMT) from the company's Starbase facility near a southern Texas village that recently voted to become a city, also ...

Private US Company Launches for Moon a Second Time

This is Beirut, 27/02 12:25 - Reading : less than a minute

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Intuitive Machines, the first private company to successfully complete a lunar landing, has launched its second probe to the Moon. Liftoff took place in Florida, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center, on the 26th of February.

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches US and Japanese Landers to the Moon

Vanessa Kallas, 15/01 15:35 - Reading : less than a minute

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and iSpace’s Hakuto-R lunar landers, showcasing the private sector's growing role in space exploration.

SpaceX Fails to Catch its Starship Megarocket, as Donald Trump watches on

This is Beirut, 2024-11-20 05:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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SpaceX flew its latest test flight of its Starship megarocket on Tuesday, with President-elect Donald Trump joining Elon Musk to witness the spectacle firsthand in the latest sign of their ever closer ties. But the Republican leader was deprived of the chance to see the descending first stage caught in the launch tower's "chopstick" arms, an ...

Moon, Mars, and Musk: How Trump's Second Term Could Reshape NASA’s Space Ambitions

This is Beirut, 2024-11-16 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Should NASA return to the Moon or go straight to Mars? Maintain its focus on climate science, or pivot away? President-elect Donald Trump's second term, alongside SpaceX CEO and new consigliere Elon Musk, could mark a Big Bang for the US space program. The brash billionaire duo share a knack for disruption and a hunger for making history — ...

In a First, SpaceX 'Catches' Megarocket Booster After Test Flight

This is Beirut, 2024-10-13 17:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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SpaceX successfully "caught" the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket Sunday as it returned to the launch pad after a test flight, a world first in the company's quest for rapid reusability. The "super heavy booster" had blasted off attached to the Starship rocket minutes earlier, then made a picture-perfect controlled return to the ...

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