Starship’s Eighth Test Flight Achieves 3rd Booster Catch but Ends in Ship Anomaly
Starship’s Eighth Test Flight Achieves 3rd Booster Catch but Ends in Ship Anomaly.
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Starship Flight 8: SpaceX nails Super Heavy booster catch but loses upper stage
Flight 8 ended with mixed results as SpaceX nailed another Super Heavy Booster catch and the upper stage experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly. The post Starship Flight 8: SpaceX nails Super Heavy booster catch but loses upper stage appeared first on TESLARATI..
Intuitive Machines lunar lander healthy, but apparently on its side
A commercially built moon lander built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines landed near the moon's south pole Thursday, but telemetry indicated it ended up on its side. The lander is "alive," officials said, but it's not yet known what mission objectives might still be met. .
Starship upper stage lost in second mishap in a row
SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket on the program's eighth test flight Thursday, but a malfunction of some sort triggered multiple upper stage engine shutdowns and for the second flight in a row, the vehicle failed to reach its planned sub-orbital altitude and broke apart in a shower of debris. .
IFT-8: Another Booster Catch, Another Starship RUD
SpaceX succeeded in catching a Super Heavy booster this evening, but the Starship second stage was lost minutes later. It was the second Starship explosion in a row, again over […].
Intuitive Machines’ second attempt to land on the Moon also went sideways
"I would like to get more data before we can determine the orientation.".
Starship destroyed on second consecutive test flight
SpaceX’s Starship vehicle suffered its second consecutive test flight failure March 6, tumbling in space before breakup up and reentering over the Caribbean. The post Starship destroyed on second consecutive test flight appeared first on SpaceNews..
IM-2 Is On the Moon, But IM’s Not Sure Where
Intuitive Machines got its second lander, IM-2, onto the lunar surface today, but like IM-1 last year it apparently is not in the correct orientation. IM-1 broke a leg and […].
Sealing the Deal
Written by Melissa Rice, Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University This week, the Perseverance team faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called “Green Gardens” from the “Tablelands” location, the rover struggled to seal the sample tube, despite multiple attempts. This isn’t entirely unprecedented — for a previous sample called […].
Danti expands AI-powered Earth data search engine to broader government market
The technology allows users to search satellite imagery and other geospatial data using natural language queries. The post Danti expands AI-powered Earth data search engine to broader government market appeared first on SpaceNews..