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The sixth flight of SpaceX’s Starship went off today without a second capture landing of the Super Heavy first stage, but it did have a dramatic daylight powered soft landing of the Starship second stage in the Indian Ocean. And a banana. Today’s mission had an unusually smooth countdown for an experimental development flight, with … Read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its sixth Starship test flight to space on Tuesday from Texas, eyeing an array of improvements on the rocket as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump watched in person. The roughly 122-metre-tall rocket system, designed to land astronauts on the moon and ferry crews to Mars, lifted off at 4 p.m. CT from SpaceX’s … Read more

SpaceX on Tuesday launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching the booster with giant mechanical arms. Unlike last month’s success, the booster was directed to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The catch was called off just four minutes into the test flight from Texas for unspecified reasons, and the booster hit the … Read more

A powerful storm is bearing down on the West Coast and bringing with it a scary-sounding weather term – bomb cyclone. READ MORE: ‘Bomb cyclone’ with heavy rain and wind threatens Northern California and Pacific Northwest Bomb cyclone is a term used by weather enthusiasts to describe a process that meteorologists usually call bombogenesis. It’s … Read more