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SpaceX Completes Second Starship Flight Test, Explosion Ensues Shortly After

SpaceX Completes Second Starship Flight Test, Explosion Ensues Shortly After

SpaceX Second Starship Flight Test Explosion
SpaceX completed their second Starship flight test, but an explosion ensued shortly after. More specifically, the Super Heavy booster exploded, while the upper-stage of Starship detonated before reaching its target altitude in a rapid unscheduled disassembly.



Starship, along with its 33 Raptor engines, and the Super Heavy booster launched at 8 a.m. EDT from SpaceX’s Starbase test and manufacturing facility in Boca Chica. The Starship stage separation happened at approximately 2 minutes, 41 seconds after liftoff, and everything went to plan, that is until the Super Heavy booster exploded.

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What we do believe right now is that the automated flight termination system on second stage appears to have triggered very late in the burn, as we were headed downrange out over the Gulf of Mexico,” said John Insprucker, SpaceX’s Principal Integration Engineer.

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B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Successfully Completes First Flight, Captured on Video

B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Successfully Completes First Flight, Captured on Video

B-21 Raider First Flight
Northrop Grumman‘s B-21 Raider stealth bomber successfully completed its first public flight this past weekend in Palmdale, California. This sixth-generation aircraft is capable of networking across the battlespace to multiple systems, and into all domains.

Thanks to digital ecosystem support, B-21 is capable of quickly evolving through rapid technology upgrades that provide new capabilities to outpace future threats. It features a more stealth-enabling low observable surface material that reportedly requires less maintenance and should decrease operations costs as well as downtime.

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The Northrop Grumman team develops and delivers technology that advances science, looks into the future and brings it to the here and now. The B-21 Raider defines a new era in technology and strengthens America’s role of delivering peace through deterrence,” said Kathy Warden, CEO and President, Northrop Grumman.

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NASA Successfully Completes Artemis II Mobile Launcher Water Deluge Test

NASA Successfully Completes Artemis II Mobile Launcher Water Deluge Test

NASA Artemis II Mobile Launcher Water Deluge Test
Photo credit: NASA / Kim Shiflett
NASA successfully completed an Artemis II mobile launcher water deluge test on Tuesday (Oct. 24) at the Kennedy Space Center. Why is this important? Well, because 400,000 gallons of water will rush onto the pad during liftoff to help protect the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.



This massive amount of water will also keep the Orion spacecraft, mobile launcher, and launch pad protected from any over-pressurization and dampen the extreme sound produced during ignition as well as liftoff. Artemis II will become the first crewed mission under Artemis and will test all the Orion spacecraft’s systems with astronauts aboard when it launches in November 2024.

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These preparations will range from a launch day demonstration for the crew, closeout crew, and the pad rescue team to rehearse operations to testing the emergency egress system and the new liquid hydrogen sphere,” said Antonia Jaramillo Botero, NASA Public Affairs Specialist.


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Virgin Galactic 05 Successfully Completes Space Mission, Marks Tenth Spaceflight to Date

Virgin Galactic 05 Successfully Completes Space Mission, Marks Tenth Spaceflight to Date

Virgin Galactic 05 Space Mission Flight
Virgin Galactic 05 successfully completed its space mission earlier today, marking the company’s tenth spaceflight to date. The crew consisted of U.S. Planetary Scientist Dr. Alan Stern, U.S. Payload Specialist Kellie Gerardi, and private astronaut Ketty Pucci-Sisti Maisonrouge.



Researchers Dr. Alan Stern and Kellie Geradi conducted five experiments during the suborbital spaceflight. Stern’s experiments include a biomedical harness to collect physiological data related to human spaceflight, while Geradi’s had her examining how a confined fluid behaves in low gravity to help inform technologies such as spacecraft lift-support systems.

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Virgin Galactic 05 Space Mission Flight

The suborbital science potential for Institutes like ours is unprecedented and I’m also struck by the broader societal impact of commercial human spaceflight — after today’s mission, Virgin Galactic is now responsible for producing 10% of the world’s female astronauts, and I look forward to seeing that number soar for my daughter’s generation,” said Kellie Gerardi, U.S. Payload Specialist and Bioastronautics Researcher for the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS).

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