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SpaceX is 'about 4 weeks' away from launching its most powerful Starship yet, Elon Musk says

The company has been prepping "Version 3" of Starship for a while now, and is targeting early April for the rocket's debut test launch, which will be the 12th overall for the Starship program. "Starship V3 first flight in about 4 weeks," Musk said in a March 7 post on X.

The V3 upgrade makes significant changes to Starship's Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage. Both are slightly taller than their predecessors and produce stronger, more efficient thrust using SpaceX's upgraded Raptor 3 rocket engine. Previous Starship iterations were already the biggest and most powerful rockets ever to launch, and V3 will continue to up the ante.

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SpaceX engineers tested Ship 39's propellant system

The testing is a vital step on the road toward Flight 12, which will mark the first time that Ship 39 will take to the skies. By passing this series of tests, Ship 39 has validated its redesigned propellant system and the other upgrades that are part of the next generation of Starship.

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Александр Панов. Что нам делать - Сфера Интересов
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NASA repairs Artemis 2 rocket, continues eyeing April moon launch
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NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket has a problem and it's leaving the launch pad

it's facing a monthlong delay or more.

The next window features target launch dates of April 1, April 3-6 and April 30.

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SpaceX Dragon arrives for Crew-12 launch

SpaceX moved the mission's launch up from Feb. 15 to Feb. 11, to more quickly relieve the skeleton crew of three astronauts currently aboard the ISS due to the recent medical evacuation.
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NASA was forced to end a critical fueling test of its giant Artemis 2 rocket early in the wee hours of Tuesday, delaying its mission to launch astronauts around the moon by at least a month.

Tanking operations began smoothly yesterday (Feb. 2) after mission managers polled "go" to begin procedures, but hydrogen leaks detected at the SLS tail service mast umbilical quick disconnect on the launch platform put technicians into a troubleshooting mode most of the afternoon.

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As of Friday afternoon (Jan. 30), NASA and SpaceX are targeting Feb. 11 as the earliest opportunity for the launch of Crew-12
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NASA delays critical Artemis 2 rocket fueling test due to below-freezing temperatures, launch no earlier than Feb. 8

NASA has been forced to delay a critical fueling test for its Artemis 2 moon rocket due to unusually cold weather forecasted to hit the Space Coast this weekend.

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NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket is on the launch pad. What's next?

Artemis 2 is at the launch pad, but several big tests must be performed before it launches as soon as Feb. 6.

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NASA rolls Artemis 2 rocket to the pad ahead of historic moon launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The rocket that will launch the next humans to the moon is rolling to the pad for its historic mission, which could lift off just a few weeks from now.

NASA is targeting Feb. 2 for the wet dress rehearsal. Feb. 6 is the earliest possible launch day for Artemis 2, which will fly NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion spacecraft on a roughly 10-day mission around the moon.

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Splashdown! NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 back on Earth after 1st-ever ISS medical evacuation
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SpaceX launches NASA's Pandora exoplanet mission, 3 dozen other satellites (video)

Pandora will study the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets during its yearlong mission.

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Perseverance recently snapped this image of a "megaripple" on Mars.

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NASA may be 1 month away from historic Artemis 2 astronaut launch around the moon

Artemis 2, the first crewed mission of NASA's Artemis program, could launch as soon as Feb. 6. The mission will fly NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on the first trip to lunar space in more than half a century, and will pave the way for what NASA intends to be an eventual permanent human presence on the moon.

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NASA's Curiosity rover sends stunning new panorama from high on Mars' Mount Sharp

The image was captured in November 2025, showing how lighting changes throughout the day on Mars.

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SpaceX shatters its rocket launch record yet again — 165 orbital flights in 2025

SpaceX launched nearly twice as many orbital missions as China did this year, and the company's 2025 output represented about 85% of the United States' total tally.

Elon Musk's company has now set a new mark six years in a row, and the numbers are getting pretty silly. The record has risen from 25 orbital liftoffs in 2020 to 31 (2021) to 61 (2022) to 96 (2023) to 134 (2024) and, now, to a whopping 165. And that's not including five non-orbital Starship test flights by SpaceX.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover could break the record for miles driven on another planet

Nearly five years into its mission on the Red Planet, the car-sized rover still has enough remaining capability to drive more than twice the distance it has already logged, mission scientists said Wednesday (Dec. 17) at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Louisiana.

That estimate puts the six-wheeled robot on track to surpass the current distance record of 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers), set by NASA's Opportunity rover after more than 14 years of exploration on Mars before a monster dust storm ended its mission in 2018.

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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too

MAVEN (short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution") has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the spacecraft, NASA announced in an update on Monday (Dec. 15). And a fragment of tracking data recovered on Dec. 6 delivered a bit of additional bad news.

"Analysis of that signal suggests that the MAVEN spacecraft was rotating in an unexpected manner when it emerged from behind Mars," NASA officials wrote in the update. "Further, the frequency of the tracking signal suggests MAVEN's orbit trajectory may have changed."

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