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SpaceX’s Mega Starship Aces Final V2 Test – ‘One Step Closer to Moon!’

SpaceX’s Mega Starship Aces Final V2 Test – ‘One Step Closer to Moon!’

The Final Starship V2 Test Flight At 6:23 p.m. local time on Oct. 13, SpaceX lit the engines on Starship Flight 11. The vehicle — fully stacked and standing ~121 m (400 ft) tall space.com ts2.tech — roared off the Starbase launch tower under 33 ground-level Raptor engines, generating about 16 million pounds of thrust (over twice that of the Saturn V moon rocket) ts2.tech. The Super Heavy booster carried its upper-stage “Ship 38” clear of the pad in a plume of flame. The only anomaly during ascent was one Raptor failing to reignite during a planned boost-back burn; that engine later relit during the landing
14 October 2025
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Space Race Heats Up: Starlink’s 300th Launch, Lunar Rocket Breakthrough & a Trillion-Dollar Space Shield – Sept 14–15, 2025 Roundup

Space Race Heats Up: Starlink’s 300th Launch, Lunar Rocket Breakthrough & a Trillion-Dollar Space Shield – Sept 14–15, 2025 Roundup

Key Facts SpaceX Marks 300 Starlink Launches SpaceX notched a major milestone with its 300th Starlink mission, continuing its rapid deployment of the satellite internet constellation. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying 24 Starlink satellites on Sept. 13, bringing SpaceX’s tally to “the 300th Starlink mission… launched to date, according to the company” space.com. The booster (tail number B1071) successfully landed at sea for its 28th reuse, just two shy of SpaceX’s reuse record space.com. This landmark launch highlights SpaceX’s “ambitious plan to provide global internet coverage via an extensive satellite network,” as space industry trackers noted
15 September 2025
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SpaceX Starship: The Giant Rocket Poised to Change Space Travel Forever (2025 Update)

SpaceX Starship: The Giant Rocket Poised to Change Space Travel Forever (2025 Update)

Starship is a two-stage, fully reusable rocket system about 120 meters tall, with 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster and 6 Raptors on Starship, delivering roughly 74 MN of thrust. The first orbital-class flight occurred on April 20, 2023 from Starbase with Ship 24 atop Booster 7, cleared the pad but failed to separate stages and was terminated, yet SpaceX called it a success for pad clearance. On November 18, 2023 (Flight 2), SpaceX conducted hot staging with a 33-engine Super Heavy (B9), achieved stage separation, but the booster exploded on return due to a clogged fuel filter
24 August 2025
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Astronaut Homecoming, Rocket Drama & Moon Race Milestones – Space News Roundup (Aug 9–10, 2025)

Astronaut Homecoming, Rocket Drama & Moon Race Milestones – Space News Roundup (Aug 9–10, 2025)

NASA’s Crew-10 returned four astronauts—Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov—from nearly five months aboard the ISS, as SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance splashed down off San Diego at 11:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 9, marking NASA’s first Pacific Ocean crew recovery in 50 years. Crew-11 arrived at the ISS a week before Crew-10’s splashdown, restoring the station to seven crew and continuing the U.S.–Russian seat-swap arrangement through 2027, with every SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying a Russian cosmonaut and every Soyuz carrying an American. Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov visited Florida for the Crew-11 launch, the first face-to-face meeting of
10 August 2025
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