Hacker News with Generative AI: SpaceX

SpaceX just got what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches (arstechnica.com)
A day after SpaceX launched its Starship rocket for the sixth time, the company received good news from the Federal Aviation Administration regarding future launch operations from its Starbase facility in South Texas.

SpaceX, FAA, Space Exploration, Texas, Starship

21 points by TMWNN 11 hours ago | 31 comments

SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing (twitter.com)

SpaceX, Space Exploration, Rocketry

265 points by alach11 1 day ago | 412 comments

Starship IFT-6 Livestream (liftoff at 4pm CT) (spacex.com)
On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress.

Space Exploration, SpaceX, Livestream

80 points by grecy 1 day ago | 49 comments

SpaceX Starship's Sonic Boom Creates Risk of Structural Damage, Test Finds (nytimes.com)
SpaceX’s new Starship rocket far exceeds projected maximum noise levels, generating a sonic boom so powerful it risks property damage in the densely populated residential community near its South Texas launch site, new data suggests.

SpaceX, Starship, Sonic Boom, Aerospace, Environmental Impact

14 points by cainxinth 2 days ago | 8 comments

Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launches Isro's 4,700-kg GSAT-20 to space (msn.com)

SpaceX, Space Exploration, Satellite Launch, ISRO, Elon Musk

4 points by saikatsg 2 days ago | 0 comments

Elon Musk's Engineering Principles – The 5 Step Process (2021) (christianscheb.de)
There’s this interview with Elon Musk, showing around the SpaceX rocket production facility in Texas. There’s a lot of talk about rockets and stuff, though in between he’s giving some fascinating insights into the design process and the principles he’s following. The “5 Step Process” as he calls it. Wanted to write it up for myself, so I though I can share it here as well.

Elon Musk, Engineering Principles, Design Process, SpaceX

25 points by SerCe 2 days ago | 25 comments

Study reveals Starship's sound levels; shows differences between SLS, Falcon 9 (nasaspaceflight.com)
When SpaceX launched Starship and Super Heavy for its first flight test in April 2023, the rocket became the most powerful ever flown, mostly due in part to Super Heavy’s 33 Raptor engines.

Space Exploration, Rocketry, SpaceX, NASA, Sound

3 points by dangle1 3 days ago | 0 comments

NASA Tells SpaceX to Focus on Safety After Astronaut Hospitalizations (gizmodo.com)
A NASA safety panel warned SpaceX to focus on crew safety for its commercial trips to the International Space Station (ISS) after four astronauts were recently hospitalized.

Space Exploration, NASA, SpaceX, Safety

40 points by tiahura 12 days ago | 5 comments

Anger in Taiwan over reports SpaceX asked suppliers to move abroad (theguardian.com)
Taiwan’s government says it is paying close attention to reports that Elon Musk’s SpaceX asked Taiwanese suppliers to move manufacturing to other countries because of “geopolitical” concerns.

Taiwan, SpaceX, Geopolitics, Manufacturing

6 points by belter 14 days ago | 1 comments

China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX's Starship (arstechnica.com)
Based on its latest specifications, the Long March 9 rocket will have a fully reusable first stage powered by 30 YF-215 engines, which are full-flow staged combustion engines fueled by methane and liquid oxygen, each with a thrust of approximately 200 tons.

Space Exploration, Rocketry, China, SpaceX, Starship

3 points by bookofjoe 14 days ago | 0 comments

Starship's Sixth Flight Test (spacex.com)
On its flight to the International Space Station, Dragon executes a series of burns that position the vehicle progressively closer to the station before it performs final docking maneuvers, followed by pressurization of the vestibule, hatch opening, and crew ingress.

SpaceX, Spaceflight

337 points by hnburnsy 15 days ago | 419 comments

China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX's Starship (arstechnica.com)
When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster.

Space Exploration, China, SpaceX, Rockets, Starship

8 points by perihelions 16 days ago | 3 comments

China's long-term lunar plans now depend on developing its own Starship (arstechnica.com)
China reveals a new heavy lift rocket that is a clone of SpaceX’s Starship

Space Exploration, China, SpaceX, Rocketry

7 points by LinuxBender 17 days ago | 0 comments

SpaceX became too big to fail for US national security (vox.com)
How Musk’s SpaceX became too big to fail for US national security.

SpaceX, National Security, Elon Musk, US Government, Space Industry

7 points by rntn 18 days ago | 0 comments

NASA Tells SpaceX to Focus on Safety After Astronaut Hospitalizations (gizmodo.com)
A NASA safety panel warned SpaceX to focus on crew safety for its commercial trips to the International Space Station (ISS) after four astronauts were recently hospitalized.

Space Travel, Safety, NASA, SpaceX

4 points by bookofjoe 19 days ago | 1 comments

SpaceX Booster Came Within 1 Second of Aborting Its First 'Catch' Landing (spacenews.com)
WASHINGTON — SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster came within a second of aborting a “catch” landing attempt on the latest Starship test flight, according to audio posted online, apparently inadvertently, by Elon Musk.

Space Exploration, SpaceX, Starship, Engineering

17 points by m463 25 days ago | 6 comments

Details about booster landing burn shared by Elon (reddit.com)
Details about booster landing burn shared by Elon in the background of his Diablo 4 stream (x.com)

Space Exploration, SpaceX, Elon Musk, Video Games

12 points by alfiopuglisi 26 days ago | 1 comments

NASA's Crew-8 mission members return to Earth on SpaceX capsule (npr.org)
NASA’s Crew-8 mission members returned to Earth Friday — capping a nearly eight-month mission after their trip from the International Space Station was extended several times.

Space Travel, NASA, SpaceX

7 points by defrost 27 days ago | 4 comments

Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy? (theshamblog.com)
No. But they don’t need to.

SpaceX, Rocketry, Engineering

139 points by scottshambaugh 31 days ago | 164 comments

NASA drops Boeing Starliner from upcoming missions (jalopnik.com)
The ramifications of the problematic Boeing Crew Test Flight are becoming clear a month after the Starliner returned to Earth empty. NASA announced on Tuesday that its 2025 Commercial Crew Program missions will exclusively use SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Space Exploration, NASA, SpaceX, Boeing

51 points by bookofjoe 33 days ago | 2 comments

SpaceX prevails over ULA, wins military launch contracts worth $733M (arstechnica.com)
The US Space Force's Space Systems Command announced Friday it has ordered eight launches from SpaceX in the first batch of dozens of missions the military will buy in a new phase of competition for lucrative national security launch contracts.

Space, Military, Government Contracts, SpaceX, ULA

5 points by airstrike 33 days ago | 1 comments

SpaceX is NASA's biggest lunar rival (economist.com)
It was something amazing—an expensive, delicate ship falling out of the sky with such precision that it could be caught in a waiting pair of giant, gentle arms. If you wanted an illustration of the fact that Americans can do things in space beyond the reach of other earthlings the return of the booster stage of SpaceX’s fifth Starship test flight on October 13th could hardly be bettered.

Space Exploration, SpaceX, NASA, Competition

16 points by edward 33 days ago | 12 comments

How SpaceX's starship caught its booster: Control engineering [video] (youtube.com)

SpaceX, Starship, Control Engineering, Engineering, Video

28 points by dtquad 34 days ago | 4 comments

NASA freezes Starliner missions (gizmodo.com)
In light of Starliner’s test flight that left its crew stranded in space, NASA will use SpaceX’s Dragon for the upcoming crewed flights to the International Space Station (ISS) while the space agency decides what to do with Boeing’s troubled spacecraft.

Space Exploration, NASA, SpaceX, Boeing

271 points by rntn 35 days ago | 314 comments

SpaceX tells FCC it has a plan to make Starlink about 10 times faster (arstechnica.com)
SpaceX is seeking approval for changes to Starlink that the company says will enable gigabit-per-second broadband service.

SpaceX, Starlink, Internet, Broadband, Technology

8 points by pseudolus 37 days ago | 0 comments

Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons (stratechery.com)
In the days after SpaceX’s awe-inspiring Starship launch-and-catch — watch the first eight minutes of this video if you haven’t yet — there was another older video floating around on X, this time of Richard Bowles, a former executive at Arianespace, the European rocket company.

SpaceX, Space Exploration, Business, Entrepreneurship

5 points by mfiguiere 37 days ago | 0 comments

To the Crazy Ones (world.hey.com)
In an earlier era, we'd all have been glued to the television to cheer SpaceX successfully catching Starship's returning booster rocket on the first try.

SpaceX, Technology, Innovation

6 points by kakakiki 38 days ago | 3 comments

To the Crazy Ones (world.hey.com)
In an earlier era, we'd all have been glued to the television to cheer SpaceX successfully catching Starship's returning booster rocket on the first try.

Space Exploration, SpaceX, Technology

14 points by alexzeitler 39 days ago | 6 comments

SpaceX's "chopstick" launch tower arms have caught its Super Heavy booster (theverge.com)
SpaceX’s “chopstick” launch tower arms have caught its Super Heavy booster.