The SpaceX fairing recovery program was an experimental program by SpaceX, begun in 2017 in an effort to determine if it might be possible to economically...
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SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 6 (IFT-6) will be the sixth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles...
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SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 5 (IFT-5) will be the fifth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles...
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The SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 4 (IFT-4) was the fourth integrated flight test of a prototype Starship launch vehicle, the world's most powerful...
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cost savings to SpaceX of recovering the fairing is expected to be on the order of US$5 million. Together, the booster stage and the fairing make up approximately...
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Starshield is a SpaceX program consisting of purpose-built low-Earth orbit satellites designed to provide new "disruptive" military space capabilities to...
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retrieve them in the 2010s with a fairing recovery program. On March 30, 2017, SpaceX successfully retrieved a fairing intact for the first time in history...
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SpaceX Starship integrated flight test 3 (IFT-3) was the third integrated flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight...
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September 2021, purchased flights from SpaceX in order to create the Polaris Program. The first two flights will use the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, while the...
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SpaceX has stated its ambition to facilitate the colonization of Mars via the development and mass manufacturing of the Starship launch vehicle. The company...
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