SpaceX’s Starship exploded in a ball of flames on 4/20 during its first orbital launch. The massive 365-foot-tall rocket launched around 9:30am after a pause on the countdown clock to finish final checks. The two stages climbed toward space but experienced an issue when the Super Heavy booster and Starship did not separate. The failure […]
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Huge Spacex Rocket ‘Starship’ To Launch Soon
In South Texas, the commercial spaceflight company SpaceX is preparing to test a huge, stainless-steel rocket. The machine could one day carry humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. But first, it has to fly. “It’s a very complex machine; it has so many different components,” says Paulo Lozano, director of MIT’s space propulsion laboratory. […]
Musk’s bad day: Explosion + stock drops by Tesla, SolarCity = $390 million loss
CNBC’s Phil LeBeau reports on problems at Tesla and now SpaceX, after a rocket launch failed in spectacular fashion today. One of his rockets blew up, and he suffered a paper loss of about $390 million as the stock prices of two of his companies sank. Elon Musk was having a horrible day. No one […]