This Week in Spaceflight: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy Flies Again and the First Arab Spacewalk
History could be made this week, as Japan's ispace seeks to become the first private mission to land successfully on the Moon.
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History could be made this week, as Japan's ispace seeks to become the first private mission to land successfully on the Moon.
The company scrubbed a test flight of the most powerful rocket ever to launch on Monday. It’s trying again on Thursday morning.
A large blue swirl that appeared in the night sky and within the aurora borealis did not have to do with aliens but was probably a fuel dump from a SpaceX rocket launch.
The next-generation rocket has been a pet project for the entrepreneur, who tempered expectations ahead of its first flight.
The four-minute flight ended in what the company called a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” — meaning it blew up. But there was much to learn from the flight, the latest step in SpaceX’s explode-as-you-learn approach.