SpaceX Starship Flight 10 launch
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But in the early hours of Sunday, SpaceX is also preparing to launch its 33rd commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) using its trusty Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft. The Dragon will be filled with more than 5,000 pounds of supplies for the crew aboard the ISS, which orbits around 250 miles above Earth.
SpaceX released its investigations into the destruction of a Starship vehicle during a May 27 flight, and the June explosion of another on the ground.
The Federal Aviation Administration has submitted a draft proposal for Starship launches and landings from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Part of the proposal would establish restricted zones for rocket launches, limiting public access to nearby beaches.
SpaceX has moved a new iteration of its Starship model to its Starbase in Texas for preflight testing. The new model, which CEO Elon Musk described as the "V2 Starship," is the latest development in the line of spaceships he hopes will one day take a manned mission to Mars.
Starbase, which Texas voters in Cameron County approved in May to become its own town, attracted some controversy in June when commissioners with the city of Starbase voted unanimously to close several of the city’s public streets to outsiders, angering longtime residents and property owners.
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SpaceX has moved a large share of talent onto its biggest project. After a Starship vehicle caught fire during a routine fueling run in June, the company reassigned roughly 20% of engineers from the Falcon 9 team to Starship for six months,
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What does it take to light a rocket engine in the vacuum of space and do it twice?” For SpaceX, the answer to that question could define the next chapter of American lunar exploration. On August 24, the company plans to launch Starship Flight 10 from its Starbase facility in Texas,