SpaceX conducted the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, but the mission hit a setback as the company lost contact with the upper stage, which is now drifting in space. This poses a challenge to Elon Musk’s ambitious goal of colonising Mars. The live webcast of the launch abruptly stopped transmitting data … Read more
Tesla CEO and department of government efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk on Tuesday hosted the US President-elect Donald Trump at SpaceX’s South Texas facility near the Mexican border. Trump observed attentively as Musk, using a model, explained the test procedures for the Starship rocket launch. The president-elect then watched the lift-off under the bright sunlight.The … Read more
During a webcast of the flight, SpaceX commentators revealed that mission control lost communication with Starship due to simultaneous signal dropout from two separate satellite systems when the spacecraft was re-entering Earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic speed. About an hour after launch from south Texas, the spacecraft was close to its planned splashdown in the Indian … Read more
