NASA adds Starship to launch contract

NASA Signs Contract for Elon Musk's Starship, Even Though It's Never Launched Without Exploding

NASA has officially added SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket to its roster — despite the vehicle never having completed a single successful test flight, let alone a mission. The space agency announced last week that it had awarded SpaceX a "modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings." As the agency explains, these contracts "provide a broad ran…

NASA adds Starship to launch contract

NASA has added SpaceX’s Starship to a contract used for launching agency missions, but the vehicle still has significant work ahead before it can start launching major missions. The post NASA adds Starship to launch contract appeared first on SpaceNews.

Not a single Starship rocket has returned safely, and yet the US space agency Nasa is now securing take-off capacity for exactly this flight candidate. What's behind it?read more on t3n.de

SpaceX Gears Up To Possibly Re-Use Starship Super Heavy Booster For 1st Time!

SpaceX has lifted a previously flow Starship Super Heavy booster for the first time at its launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas. Footage from local media shows that the Starship Super Heavy booster, which flew on Flight 7, was lifted on the launch mount, with local notices for non-flight testing activities posted for Thursday and Friday. While SpaceX evaluates its second-generation upper-stage Starship after consecutive test flight mishaps, its perfo…

BREAKTHROUGH Testing Soon for Starship's Point-to-Point Flights: The Future of Transportation

SpaceX and the Air Force Research Lab will start testing and developing the capability to fly anywhere in the world in under an hour. SpaceX’s Starship is poised to revolutionize global logistics and travel with breakthrough ultra-fast point-to-point flights on Earth. The US Air Force Research Lab and Space Force have awarded SpaceX contracts totaling ...

NASA has awarded SpaceX an amendment to its Launch Services contract (NLS II) to add the Starship superrocket to its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch services offer.