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La prochaine tentative du Starship se dessine déjà
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Tuesday, 26 March - 10:54
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 · Friday, 22 March - 11:00 · 1 minute
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.
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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La Russie n’aime pas Starlink mais l’utilise quand même dans son armée
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 21 March - 17:04
Le ministère des Affaires étrangères russe a déclaré que les satellites Starlink de la société SpaceX pouvaient être « des cibles légitimes ». Parallèlement, l'armée russe s'approvisionne en satellites Starlink pour mener sa guerre en Ukraine.
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SpaceX’s workhorse launch pad now has the accoutrements for astronauts
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 20 March - 23:47
Upgrades at SpaceX's most-used launch pad in Florida will get a trial run Thursday with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon cargo ship heading for the International Space Station.
SpaceX's Cargo Dragon spacecraft is set for launch at 4:55 pm EDT (20:55 UTC) Thursday from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This mission, known as CRS-30, is SpaceX's 30th resupply mission to the space station since 2012.
The automated Dragon supply ship will take off on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, then head for a month-long stay at the International Space Station, where it will deliver more than 6,000 pounds of hardware, fresh food, and experiments for the lab's seven-person crew.
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Le 4e vol de l’imposante fusée Starship pourrait rapidement arriver
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 20 March - 13:12
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
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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Les smartphones pourront bientôt se connecter au réseau des satellites Starlink
news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Saturday, 16 March - 14:00
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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
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
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.
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.
