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SpaceX Starship SN11 high altitude test flight (6 mins video)
Tuesday March 30th at 8AM, Starship completed its 4th high altitude test flight during a very foggy day, the vehicle ascended to 10km and successfully belly-flopped to attempt a landing, unfortunately, a small CH4 leak led to a fire on engine 2 and ultimately SN11 exploding before landing.
SN15 has 100's of new improvements (3 mins read)
Starship SN15 is currently being stacked in the high bay, SN15 has lots of new improvements that were made thanks to the learnings from previous prototype vehicles. We could see a flight attempt as early as this week which will hopefully lead to a successful landing.
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Crew Dragon moves to new docking port at ISS (2 mins read)
SpaceX's crew dragon autonomously relocated from the forward port on the Harmony module to the space-facing port. This is a world's first for a commercial crew vehicle, this maneuver will allow the next crew dragon to dock once it arrives at the International Space Station later this month.
Ingenuity helicopter ready to fly on Mars (5 mins read)
NASA's Ingenuity survived its first Martian night where night temperatures can reach minus 90 degrees Celsius. Over the next days, the team will monitor the helicopter’s energy performance as well as some additional rotor blades testing for a possible flight on April 11th
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