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Formerly TwitterJeff Foust
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NASA's Amit Kshatriya says at an advisory committee meeting this morning that the agency expects SpaceX to attempt its next Starship/Super Heavy test flight by the end of May.
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Jeff Foust
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Some SpaceX charts showing how the company believes it can use Starship to establish a lunar base (from its DARPA LunaA-10 study, being discussed today at the LSIC meeting.) pic.twitter.com/NPRc2UoiD4
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Eric Berger
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According to NASA's Amit Kshatriya, SpaceX is working toward the fourth Starship flight test before the end of May. Says IFT3 was "a great success."
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Eric Berger
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"The premise was that, if we’re really going to go to Mars, the first thing we’re going to have to do is set up a bunch of equipment. I left SpaceX knowing the width of the Starship door, and we made the biggest thing that could pass through it."
arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/astrolab-tacks-toward-a-future-where-100s-of-tons-of-cargo-are-shipped-to-the-moon/
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SpaceX ship reaches space but ends in fireball
By Joe Pappalardo
SpaceX's 3rd Starship launch makes it to space without exploding, but is lost on reentry
By Orlando Sentinel and Richard Tribou
Starship reaches space on 3rd launch but SpaceX lost rocket on reentry
By Marianne Guenot, Morgan McFall-Johnsen and Ellyn Lapointe