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Starship to launch fake satellites on 7th test flight

Space on MSN · 14h

SpaceX to launch Starship megarocket's Flight 7 test mission on Jan. 13

SpaceX's Starship will fly for the seventh time ever early next week, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX announced today (Jan. 8) that it's targeting Monday (Jan. 13) for Flight 7 of Starship, the 400-foot-tall (122 meters), fully reusable megarocket designed to help humanity settle the moon and Mars.

New Scientist · 16h

SpaceX: Starship to launch fake satellites on seventh test flight

SpaceX’s most ambitious Starship flight yet will see reused hardware, the deployment of 10 fake satellites and another attempt to catch the booster with “chopsticks”

SpaceX’s Next Starship Test Flight Will Be Unlike Any Other

SpaceX is gearing up to launch Starship for its seventh test flight, attempting to deploy Starlink mock-ups from the rocket for the first time. Starship is set for liftoff as early as Friday, January 10,

Flightglobal22h

Vertical VX4 advances to Phase 2B of flight-test plan

Vertical Aerospace has progressed to the next stage of flight testing its VX4 prototype, completing initial piloted low-speed ...

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SpaceX's Starship 7th Test Flight Delayed, Says Elon Musk: Now Expected Next Week

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the company's ambitious Starship launch vehicle's next flight test is now expected ...

Kratos Secures $1.5B DOD Contract for Hypersonic Flight Test Activities

Read about Kratos' $1.45 billion DOD MACH-TB 2.0 contract win and its role in the Pentagon's hypersonic program.

Vertical Aerospace performs piloted thrustborne flight test in full-scale eVTOL

Vertical Aerospace has become only the second company in the world to perform a piloted thrustborne flight test in a full-scale eVTOL aircraft.

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