Day: June 7, 2025

SpaceX fires up Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship’s 10th test flight (video)

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SpaceX is already gearing up for the next flight of its Starship megarocket, just a week and a half after the most recent one left the ground. The company performed a long-duration “static fire” test with Super Heavy, Starship‘s huge first-stage booster, at its Starbase site in South Texas on Friday (June 6). All 33 of Super Heavy’s Raptor engines lit up during the trial, SpaceX said in a Friday X post that shared a photo and two short videos of the action. You may like SpaceX conducts a static-fire…

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 164 — Goodbye NASA?

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Goodbye NASA? – An Era May be Ending – YouTube Watch On On Episode 164 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss these concerning times for NASA with Casey Dreier, the Chief of Space Policy for The Planetary Society.. What a wild week it’s been for NASA. With drastic budget cuts looming — pending any action by Congress — then comes the sudden and unexpected pulling of Jared Isaacman for the role of NASA Administrator, with no replacement named. Then came the very public split between…

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It’s been nearly a century since Chicago saw a powerful dust storm like this (photos)

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In mid-May, a giant wall of dust paraded across parts of the U.S. Midwest, and, thanks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) East satellite, we were able to follow along. In mid-May, a giant wall of dust paraded across parts of the U.S. Midwest, and, thanks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) East satellite, we were able to follow along. The GOES-19 spacecraft, which has been in space for less than a year after launching in…

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