SpaceX sends “radically redesigned” Starship engine to Texas for hot-fire tests
SpaceX has shipped one of the first of a group of Starship engines known as Raptor, described last month by…
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SpaceX workers cap Starship with tank dome as Raptor arrivals and hop tests near
SpaceX employees and local contractors continue to outfit the aft section of the first full-scale BFR prototype with a variety…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk teases white-hot Starship heat shield testing in video
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shared a video showing what looks to be the early stages of testing for Starship's…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk explains Starship’s ‘transpiring’ steel heat shield in Q&A
Speaking in a late-December 2018 interview with Popular Mechanics' editor-in-chief, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared considerable insight into the thought…
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SpaceX fits Starship prototype with tank bulkheads as hop test pad progresses
SpaceX workers have begun installing fuel and oxidizer tank bulkheads inside the first BFS/Starship prototype at the same time as…
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SpaceX separates Starship prototype’s nose and tail to install giant propellant tanks
After a handful of days as an impressive monolith stood along the coastal wetlands of Texas, SpaceX technicians have once…
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SpaceX to move Starship and Super Heavy production to Texas as hop tests near [updated]
SpaceX announced today that plans to ultimately build BFR (now known as Starship/Super Heavy) in the Port of Los Angeles…
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SpaceX lays off 10% of staff by email as Falcon Heavy, BFR, and Starlink ramp up
In an unusual move for a privately-held company that raised $500M-750M in the last six months alone and is the…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says first orbital Starship prototype will be done by June
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the company's first Starship prototype - a low-fidelity hop test vehicle - has finished…
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SpaceX’s Starship reaches new heights as Elon Musk teases Q1 2019 hop tests
In a burst of activity that should probably be expected at this point but still feels like a complete surprise,…
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SpaceX’s Starship hopper spotted with trio of dual-bell Raptor engines
Following a brief 'hop' (via crane) off of a concrete build stand, the aft section of SpaceX's first full-scale Starship…
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SpaceX’s Starship prototype proceeds at breakneck pace towards hop tests
Well illustrated by recent drone photos of SpaceX's up-and-coming Boca Chica, Texas facilities, dozens of SpaceXers and local contractors have…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk: odds of Starship reaching orbit by 2020 are “rising rapidly”
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has suggested that the company's newly revamped Starship and Super Heavy rocket (previously known as BFR) could…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: Starship prototype to have 3 Raptors and “mirror finish”
Taking to Twitter once more to reveal additional information about SpaceX's radically changing BFR/Starship prototype program, CEO Elon Musk has…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starship (BFS) hop tests could start in early 2019
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to share an unexpected wealth of detail about the "radical" and largely…
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SpaceX’s BFR program pursuing advanced Starship heat shield with NASA help
According to a Space Act Agreement signed by SpaceX and NASA's Ames Research Center in June 2018, the private company…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk teases new Starship photos and “heavy metal” BFR
Drawn in by Teslarati photographer Pauline Acalin's most recent photos of Port of LA Falcon 9 recovery operations SpaceX is…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk teases Mars breakthroughs as Starship design radically changes
During an interview with Axios, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk noted that he was "[really fired up about] a number of…
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SpaceX seeks licenses for BFR spaceship prototype hop test campaign
Recent filings confirm that SpaceX has begun the process of applying for permits and licenses that will eventually allow the…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk kills mini BFR spaceship 12 days after announcing it
Less than two weeks after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that Falcon 9's "second stage [would] be upgraded...like a mini-BFR…
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