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April 26, 2021 Starship SN15 is set to re-enter pre-launch testing Monday, tasked with setting the scene this week for a flight that could pave the way toward an orbital flight in the coming months.  The groundwork for the push to orbit is taking place both at the Orbital Launch Site and elsewhere in Texas as a new dual-bay Raptor test stand nears completion. Starship SN15: Since arriving at the Suborbital Launch Site, SN15 has undergone several “risk reduction” tests ahead of firing up her trio of Raptors. I have received an Alert notice and there is a road and beach closure scheduled f...

Starship SN15 prepares for flight following major NASA vindication April 18, 2021 Starship SN15 is expected to undergo a Static Fire test as early as Tuesday to clear the path for a test flight no earlier than Wednesday as SpaceX’s rapidly reusable interplanetary launch and landing system gained a massive sign of NASA approval – and a ton of government cash to boot. SpaceX was the sole winner of NASA’s initial Human Landing System (HLS) award worth in total more than $2.9 billion, meaning the human return to the Moon’s surface will be via Starship. Starship SN15: Classed as the next e...

Aerojet Rocketdyne refurbishing RS-25 engines for Artemis 1 launch and production restart testing April 9, 2021 With the completion of another single-engine RS-25 development test, Aerojet Rocketdyne is now refurbishing five engines at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for their next use. After the second test firing of the Retrofit 2 series in the A-1 Test Stand on April 6, development engine 0528 is going through a streamlined refurbishment prior to its next firing as a part of the production restart Retrofit 2 test series. In parallel, the four RS-25 engines installed on the first Sp...

Second prevalve issue delays completion of SLS Core Stage Green Run campaign February 26, 2021 A problem with another one of the eight prevalves in the Artemis 1 Core Stage for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) has postponed a second test-firing to wrap up the Green Run campaign. The SLS Program’s first flight article has been installed in the B-2 Test Stand at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi since January 2020. After a liquid hydrogen prevalve was repaired in November, all the prevalves worked during tanking and firing tests until final preparations for a second Hot-Fire ...

CRS-21 Dragon completes mission with splashdown off Tampa January 11, 2021 The CRS-21 automated cargo Dragon v2, the first-of-its-kind for the v2 class designed and developed by SpaceX, has completed its mission after undocked from the International Space Station and conducting a 35 hour homecoming that culminated with a splashdown off the coast of Tampa, Florida on Wednesday, 13 January at 20:27 EST (14 January at 01:27 UTC). Undocking and splashdown had originally been planned for Monday, 11 January.  However, a confusing series of messages about the weather that first gave approval and cl...