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Starship V3 launches from Starbase in Texas on the 12th test flight of the Starship system. Credit: SpaceX

Starship V3 takes off for the first time: SpaceX is getting closer to the moon, but there's still a long way to go

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SpaceX has completed the first test flight of its Starship V3, the giant rocket that will be used in NASA's Artemis program in the future. The flight achieved most of its goals, but engine failures show that the path to success is still uncertain.
Starship SN9 on the launch pad. By Jared Krahn - Created by the author, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Starship could cut Uranus-Uranus flight time in half

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MIT study proposes using Starship's payload, in-orbit refueling, and atmospheric braking capabilities to get a NASA flagship mission to Uranus in about six and a half years
The Artemis II spacecraft aboard the SLS launchers on February 2, 2026. Credit: NASA/John Kraus

NASA changes Artemis program: Artemis 3 will not land astronauts on the Moon

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Instead of a crewed landing in 2027, Artemis 3 will become a test mission in Earth orbit, while the program's first crewed landing is now postponed to Artemis 4 in 2028.
A perfect cosmic circle captured by Webb shows a distant spiral galaxy twisted around a closer elliptical galaxy. This Einstein ring provides a glimpse into the warped nature of spacetime. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G.

2025 in Space Summary: Hints of Life, a Commercial Moon, and a Sharper Look at the Risks

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Webb reignited the debate about signs of life on distant planets, the Moon advanced thanks to commercial missions, and Earth's orbit reminded us how crowded and fragile it is – with launches, a nearby asteroid, and preparations
The moment of the malfunction that caused the Starship spacecraft to break apart during the eighth test, March 6, 2025. Screenshot, SpaceX

SpaceX Starship explodes again

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SpaceX Starship explodes again
Starship Flight 7 mission patch, credit: SpaceX,

FAA investigates Starship's seventh test flight explosion following reports of property damage

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A fuel leak caused the upper stage of a Starship to explode in mid-air, leaving debris over the Turks and Caicos Islands. The FAA and SpaceX are investigating the incident to improve launch safety.
Fire show resulting from the disintegration of the second stage of the Starship spacecraft. From social networks, Section 27A of the Copyright Law

Another failure for SPACEX's Starship spacecraft: The booster landed successfully, but the spacecraft exploded

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A Starship probe launched from Texas broke apart minutes after liftoff, but the "Super Hubble" booster successfully landed on metal arms on the launch pad.
The moment the Starship spacecraft exploded during a test flight on 20/4/2023. From the live broadcast of Spice X on YouTube

SPACEX's Starship spacecraft exploded four minutes after launch on its first full test flight

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Apparently the thrust of the first stage was not strong enough and the spacecraft was unable to separate from it. This is still an unmanned test flight and it seems that now the manned experiments will move away * This is the prototype
SpaceX's SN9 launcher crashes in Texas, 2/2/21, not far from the launch pad that is carrying the SN10 prototype of the Starship spacecraft. Screenshot from a SPACEX broadcast

A day after SPACEX announced a raffle for passengers on a spacecraft to Mars, another prototype exploded

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About five and a half minutes after launch, the launcher's engines were ignited in order to move it to a vertical position and then align with the nose up to land on its bottom, however, as it was seen in the broadcast, the launcher overturned when
Screenshot from the moment the SN8 spacecraft crashed during a test flight in Texas, 9/12/2020. Photo: SPACEX

SpaceX's Starship 8 spacecraft crashed tonight during a test landing in Texas (video)

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SN8, a prototype of a spacecraft that is supposed to transport humans to Mars, took off and even circled in the air but did not succeed in the landing phase apparently due to low fuel pressure in the central tank, which caused
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