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

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SpaceX began constructing Starship’s Texas launch site in earnest in late 2020. But the company went on to radically redesign the rocket and its ground systems, forcing it to entirely abandon about a year of work by the end of 2020. 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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It will also include a small spacecraft capable of "hopping" to explore shadowed craters for evidence of potential water ice, a resource that, if present, could be used in the future for both propulsion and supplies for astronauts. China's space program , long trailing in the footsteps of the U.S. ISRU, in this case using the. James Provost.

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