SpaceX Starship test flights

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• SpaceX Reveals Its Trillion Dollar Starships Plan! Not Just Mars! 🤯:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zMSmjsfp9eA

SpaceX is ramping up Starship version 3. How long until we see first tests? Three Starship pads are in active construction. One has just passed a major milestone! What will SpaceX use three Starships per day for? Something even SpaceX Fans largely don’t know about. Vast launches first SpaceStation demonstrator. India launches a massive satellite into orbit. And China… is copying Starships.

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• Wow! SpaceX Are Ramping Up Starship Plans for the Moon? 🚀

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=02QZ-dsAgB8

Big things are moving fast at Starbase! Pad 1’s demolition is ripping along while Pad 2 springs to life. SpaceX’s first Version 3 Starship and Super Heavy are almost ready, and official talk of that next flight timeline has begun. So, the Next Starship Flight, it's Maybe Sooner Than You Think! Plus we’ve got updates on orbital data centers, lunar surface missions, bandwagon 4 payloads, and new Falcon 9 launches as SpaceX ramps up its commercial and lunar operations.

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• SpaceX Found Brilliant Solution to Go Straight to the Moon before China: DRAGON on STARSHIP:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=fAn6aA2XmBg

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• SpaceX vs NASA and China with New Method to Build Moonbase Alpha:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ScyFp5eBMc

SpaceX vs NASA and China with New Method to Build Moonbase Alpha. How can the United States beat China in the new space race? The answer may come down to who builds a permanent Moon base first. NASA has a plan, but it’s slow, complicated, and tangled in red tape. Elon Musk thinks there’s a faster way. Cut the excess, skip the bureaucracy, and focus on one simple idea: one rocket for everything. That rocket is Starship — SpaceX’s bold vision for a lunar base that could change the game entirely. Let’s dive in — this is TechMap. SpaceX SHOCKED NASA and China with New Method to Build Moonbase Alpha. In essence, a permanent lunar base is humanity’s next foothold beyond Earth — something like a small town or research outpost planted on the Moon. The concept isn’t science fiction anymore. It would include habitats for astronauts to live and work, along with labs for scientific research. Power would come from solar arrays stretched across the gray regolith or perhaps compact nuclear reactors humming quietly through the lunar night. To sustain life, systems would recycle air, water, and waste, allowing crews to stay for months or even years at a time. The motivation goes beyond mere exploration. Because the Moon’s gravity is just one-sixth that of Earth, it offers a convenient launch point for missions deeper into the Solar System. Astronauts could test technologies needed for Mars expeditions while studying the Moon’s geology up close. There’s also a practical advantage: the Moon itself holds valuable resources. Water ice trapped in its polar craters could be turned into drinking water or rocket fuel. Mining lunar materials means less dependence on costly supply runs from Earth — a major step toward sustainable space operations. SpaceX vs NASA and China with New Method to Build Moonbase Alpha. That’s why nations with serious space ambitions are setting their sights on establishing a lunar base. China, partnering with Russia and others, aims to build one by the 2030s. Their vision includes laboratories, mining infrastructure, and reliable power systems, possibly nuclear. Officials in Beijing have hinted at welcoming international cooperation — on their terms. The United States, of course, isn’t sitting idle. NASA views the Moon as both a proving ground and a strategic necessity. The competition has sharpened since China’s Chang’e-6 mission planted flags on the lunar surface in June 2024, using material collected from basaltic plains. The message was unmistakable: they’re coming. For Washington, that has added a renewed urgency to get American astronauts not just back to the Moon, but to stay there.

[Joe Akulis]

"studying the Moon’s geology up close"

Or lack of geology. heh heh Don't drill those core samples too far down.

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• Elon Musk Declared This about China Falcon 9 Clone Recovery Failed! Never Beat SpaceX:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PknzEa24o3U

Text that is under the video, quote: "Elon Musk Declared This about China Falcon 9 Clone Recovery Failed! Never Beat SpaceX... China’s Falcon 9 copy just blew up during its landing attempt on its first flight! Yet somehow, it’s still being hailed as a major success. Even more surprising, Elon Musk is openly cheering them on, saying their clone could surpass SpaceX’s Falcon 9 within the next five years. So what really happened up there? Why would Elon praise a competitor for copying his rocket? And does this thing actually stand a chance against the original? Let’s break it all down in today’s episode of Alpha Tech. Elon Musk Declared This about China Falcon 9 Clone Recovery Failed! Never Beat SpaceX... They were this close, just a little bit more, to pulling off the very first flight of Zhuque-3, the rocket many peop lle are calling “China’s Falcon 9 version 2.” For a moment, it felt like the whole world was watching, because this would’ve been China’s first partially reusable rocket capable of landing itself. But things went south fast. During the return burn, the booster caught fire, lost control, and came crashing down. One big boom, and the whole vehicle was basically reduced to a pile of scrap metal. Elon Musk Declared This about China Falcon 9 Clone Recovery Failed! Never Beat SpaceX... This rocket comes from LandSpace, one of China’s biggest private space companies. Their growth over the past few years has been comparable to SpaceX in the U.S., except for one big difference: SpaceX keeps climbing, while LandSpace just took a massive hit. After the Zhuque-3 booster blew up on December 3rd, the company’s stock tanked as investors started losing confidence in this “Falcon-9-clone.” But here’s the twist: even though the landing failed and the company’s value dropped, LandSpace is still celebrating, and they even got a compliment from Elon Musk. Why?" unquote

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• SpaceX Proceeds with updated Starship Plan! Is it going to work? China ALMOST Lands Rocket!:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QAtNS_O5FoE

SpaceX has a Starship Flight 12 dilemma! Will they be able to launch fast enough? And if so, will it be enough to keep up with NASA’s Artemis plan? Will Jarred Isaacman be able to help as a NASA Administrator? Humanity is rapidly developing autonomous systems for the Moon and Mars! Will Europe’s ExoMars ever actually fly to Mars? China’s Zhu-Que 3 rocket almost became reusable on the first launch!