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SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet kits have hit Costco warehouses worldwide, and so far, they’ve been spotted in Canada, Japan, the UK, as well as several US locations. Some might be wondering if these can be purchased online, and the answer is that only the $2,499 USD Starlink Flat High Performance Kit is offered, while physical warehouses have the $399.99 – $499.99 Residential model.
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SpaceX Starship completed its second flight last week, and in doing so, it successfully fired up all 33 of its Raptor engines. Elon Musk recently uploaded footage of the launch that provides us with an up-close look at the Raptor engines.
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The new Matchbox SpaceX Starship and Dragon capsule toys have been revealed. Both retail at $4.99 USD and can be found both online as well as in retail stores wherever Matchbox Sky Busters toys are sold.
NASA has successfully launched the Psyche spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:19 am EDT. Once the rocket’s second stage climbed to a high-enough altitude, the fairings separated from the rocket and returned safely to Earth.
SpaceX has successfully completed a series of Raptor engine tests for NASA’s Artemis III moon lander, better known as the human landing system (HLS). The Starship HLS comes equipped with two variants of SpaceX’s Raptor engines, with the first optimized to operate in atmospheric pressure at sea level, while the other is designed to function in space where there is no atmosphere.
It’s official, the SpaceX Starship Super Heavy’s Booster 9 has successfully completed a static fire test of its 33 Raptor engines, paving way for the Haven-1 commercial space station launch. There were a few hiccups such as not running for the full 5-second duration, but rather 2.74-seconds, and four of the main engines also shut down prematurely.
SpaceX successfully completed a full-pressure water deluge test of its new Starship flame deflector at the Super Heavy launch site at Bosa Chica, Texas this past Friday. This flame deflector is basically designed to diffuse heat, sound as well as energy generated by orbital test flights of Super Heavy.
