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      La prochaine tentative du Starship se dessine déjà

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · 3 days ago - 10:54

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    SpaceX s'active pour le prochain essai en vol du Starship, qui pourrait survenir courant mai. Une première vérification de la motorisation de l'étage supérieur vient d'être bouclée.

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      Rocket Report: Starship could fly again in May; Ariane 6 coming together

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 7 days ago - 11:00 · 1 minute

    Nine kerosene-fueled Rutherford engines power Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle off the pad at Wallops Island, Virginia, early Thursday.

    Enlarge / Nine kerosene-fueled Rutherford engines power Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle off the pad at Wallops Island, Virginia, early Thursday. (credit: Brady Kenniston/Rocket Lab )

    Welcome to Edition 6.36 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX wants to launch the next Starship test flight as soon as early May, the company's president and chief operating officer said this week. The third Starship test flight last week went well enough that the Federal Aviation Administration—yes, the FAA, the target of many SpaceX fans' frustrations—anticipates a simpler investigation and launch licensing process than SpaceX went through before its previous Starship flights. However, it looks like we'll have to wait a little longer for Starship to start launching real satellites.

    As always, we welcome reader submissions , and if you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets, as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

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    Starship could threaten small launch providers. Officials from several companies operating or developing small satellite launch vehicles are worried that SpaceX's giant Starship rocket could have a big impact on their marketability, Space News reports . Starship's ability to haul more than 100 metric tons of payload mass into low-Earth orbit will be attractive not just for customers with heavy satellites but also for those with smaller spacecraft. Aggregating numerous smallsats on Starship will mean lower prices than dedicated small satellite launch companies can offer and could encourage customers to build larger satellites with cheaper parts, further eroding business opportunities for small launch providers.

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      Le 4e vol de l’imposante fusée Starship pourrait rapidement arriver

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 20 March - 13:12

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    SpaceX projette le quatrième vol de sa fusée Starship à un horizon de deux mois, soit courant mai. Le régulateur américain suggère que ce calendrier est plausible au regard de la performance du dernier essai.

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      Elon Musk est persuadé que sa méga fusée sera sur Mars dans 5 ans

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 19 March - 15:47

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    Elon Musk s'est souvent hasardé à faire des prédictions, qui se sont révélées régulièrement fausses. Malgré tout, le milliardaire américain a fait une autre promesse : selon lui, la fusée Starship sera sur Mars dans cinq ans.

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      After Thursday’s flight, Starship is already the most revolutionary rocket ever built

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 15 March - 14:39

    Starship meets plasma.

    Enlarge / Starship meets plasma. (credit: SpaceX)

    One of the best things about spaceflight is its power to dazzle us.

    I will never forget seeing the first images of Pluto and its moon Charon for the first time, with their vibrant colors and exotic geology. A world with super-sized ice volcanoes? Oh my. Similarly affecting were up-close views of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, revealed by Europe's Philae lander. And it is difficult to forget the harrowing footage of NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars.

    But no space agency or company has dazzled us more in the last 10 years than SpaceX. The company produces moments of wonder and originality that are both breathtaking and full of promise. What SpaceX does best is provide us a glimpse into a tantalizingly close future.

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      Les photos épiques de la fusée Starship lors de son 3e envol

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 15 March - 08:57

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    Les photographes étaient évidemment au rendez-vous du 3e vol du Starship, depuis le pas de tir de Starbase, au Texas. Voici plusieurs clichés partagés sur les réseaux sociaux. SpaceX a aussi publié ses propres prises de vue.

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      SpaceX celebrates major progress on the third flight of Starship

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 14 March - 20:12

    SpaceX's Starship soars through the sky over South Texas, powered by 33 methane-burning Raptor engines.

    Enlarge / SpaceX's Starship soars through the sky over South Texas, powered by 33 methane-burning Raptor engines. (credit: Stephen Clark/Ars Technica)

    SpaceX's new-generation Starship rocket, the most powerful and largest launcher ever built, flew halfway around the world following liftoff from South Texas on Thursday, accomplishing a key demonstration of its ability to carry heavyweight payloads into low-Earth orbit.

    SpaceX's third towering Starship rocket, standing some 397 feet (121 meters) tall and wider than the fuselage of a 747 jumbo jet, lifted off at 8:25 am CDT (13:25 UTC) Thursday from SpaceX's Starbase launch facility on the Texas Gulf Coast east of Brownsville. SpaceX delayed the liftoff time by nearly an hour and a half to wait for boats to clear out of restricted waters near the launch base.

    Hitting its marks

    The successful launch builds on two Starship test flights last year that achieved some, but not all, of their objectives and appears to put the privately funded rocket program on course to begin launching satellites, allowing SpaceX to ramp up the already-blistering pace of Starlink deployments.

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      Jamais le Starship n’avait autant progressé qu’aujourd’hui

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 14 March - 17:07

    Le troisième vol du Starship constitue un immense bond en avant pour SpaceX. Jamais sa colossale fusée n'avait autant volé en une seule fois. Plusieurs tests inédits ont été menés. Il reste toutefois encore du travail : le premier étage a été perdu durant son retour dans l'océan et le second s'est vraisemblablement désintégré dans la haute atmosphère.

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      Starship : la méga-fusée de SpaceX s’est envolée !

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 14 March - 13:37

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    La mission a parfaitement commencé, contrairement aux deux premiers vols d'essai qui avaient été interrompus prématurément par des explosions spectaculaires.