Ship 29 is being lifted atop Booster 11 for full stack operations, likely to include another Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR).

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🚀 Pre-launch preparations for the Progress MS-27 cargo spacecraft are being completed at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. After the author's inspection of the ship, it was placed in the head fairing, after which it will go to the installation and testing building of site 31 for

Check out the difference between tower one foundation and the new one at Starbase!
Starbase Weekly Livestream: youtube.com/live/ZYhRB4r7l…

CAS Space’s Lijian-1 Y4 rocket completes assembly tests and factory review, ready for delivery. Improved processes cut assembly time to 25 days. Y5-Y8 rockets in testing / batch production at aerospace base. Full-scale production ongoing. Source:m.weibo.cn/status/Og1XBg8…

View of the Starfactory from above:

ESA EarthCARE payload rolling to the pad (video from local Facebook group)

😍 SpaceX Falcon 9 NROL-146 and the Los Angeles skyline.
22nd of May, '24.

Little-known TV broadcast of Elon Musk a few days after the first test flight of Falcon 1 in March 2006. Despite the launch failure, Elon was determined: 'If need be, I'm prepared to fund this all the way until SpaceX is the world's top launch company.'

Your daily booster shot - May 22, 2024

✈🚀Touchdown before liftoff!

NASA Europa Clipper has arrived at KSC! The next stop is the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility for fueling before being encapsulated inside the fairings of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The launch window opens on October 10, 2024!

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The future is bright for astronomy, and very expensive trib.al/FKT9pI0

Curiosity Here’s my best photo of Mars! Captured using a 14” scope from my backyard. It’s actually facing the same way, you can see Valles Marineris in the center of the photo.

A nice little family of recovered space hardware at Port of Long Beach today, with a slightly slanty Falcon 9 back from its NROL-146 mission.

I tried to reproduce the view at ~6:47:10 by modeling the sun angle and shadow being cast onto the vapor. The only way to get the angled shadow on the vapor is if an object is at an angle roughly right above the camera on the booster. Here I'm showing the HSR at an angle to

Throwback 366 - May 25, 2023

i don't think we talk about how well these two videos work as one

Legendary SpaceX engineer Tom Mueller makes his own engines!

Elon Musk’s first hire at SpaceX and the engineer who designed the Merlin rocket engine is now making his own rocket engines for deep space at Impulse Space

No journalist has ever taken a tour like THIS!

This video