First published at 17:22 UTC on February 3rd, 2020.
Not only SpaceX Starship Boca Chica factory is progressing nicely, but SpaceX is also considering to reopen their facility at the port of LA to accelerate Starship / Super Heavy's assembly even further! Besides the latest Starship pressure test…
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Not only SpaceX Starship Boca Chica factory is progressing nicely, but SpaceX is also considering to reopen their facility at the port of LA to accelerate Starship / Super Heavy's assembly even further! Besides the latest Starship pressure test, we also discuss whether NASA's 2024 moon landing is endangered by a new congress bill.
The Starship tank prototype successfully reached 8.5 bar in the latest SpaceX Starship tank test, paving the way for future crewed Starship missions.
In order to accelerate the assembly of SpaceX Super Heavy booster and Elon's ambitious SpaceX Starship Mars landing plan, SpaceX is considering to build a second Starship factory besides the current SpaceX Starship Boca Chica facility.
Another successful Falcon 9 SpaceX Starlink satellites deployment makes a further step towards the launch of SpaceX Internet 2020 in North America.
ESA's Clear Space mission is an important step towards solving the space debris problem.
Jim Bridenstine has a difficult time to keep NASA's Artemis program. A new congress bill namely proposes to cancel Artemis 2024 manned moon landing. If the bill gets passed, it would also basically force NASA to solely utilize Boeing's launch system in the future, instead of any commercial solutions, e.g. a SpaceX moon lander.
The first 16 science experiments and technology demonstrations of the commercial lunar services payloads program have been revealed. One of them might provide some highly useful data for a future SpaceX Starship moon or Mars landing.
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