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SpaceX installs rocket-catching arms on Starship’s Florida launch tower

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The company has been building the second of several planned Starship launch sites for more than three years. Ironically, work on that pad began before the company started building the pad that will actually support Starship’s first orbital launch attempts. SpaceX stress-tests the first ‘chopsticks’ with water bags.

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China Aims for a Permanent Moon Base in the 2030s

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These successes, together with renewed international scientific and commercial interest in the moon, have emboldened China to embark on a new lunar project that builds on the Chang'e program's newly acquired capabilities. under development , building on technologies from the Long March 5. ISRU, in this case using the. James Provost.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to present first Starship update since 2019 [webcast]

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In theory, it would have been able to launch up to 300 tons (660,000 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO) – twice the payload of Saturn V, the next most capable rocket. Just a month later, in September 2020 , SpaceX repeated the feat with an entirely different Starship prototype, demonstrating repeatability both in production and flight.

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