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We don't know anything about the X-37B orbit because it is highly classified. It is likely that rather than an significant change in orbital altitude the advantage of launching atop the Heavy will be a longer duration in orbit since the X-37B will use much less of its own fuel to reach a...

What is left out here is that much of this pollution, especially the aluminum oxides mentioned as a major problem, come from the reentry of the upper stages of launch vehicles (and of the first stages of all launch vehicles in use except Falcon 9). When SpaceX makes the switch to StarShip its...

But SpaceX plans to cut the New York to Singapore time to about an hour with Starship. New York to Tokyo will be 30 minutes.

What Elon Musk said when the first Block 5 Falcon booster launched in May 2018 was: and He also said: and The Falcon 9 has fallen far short of those very ambitious goals but those are now the goals for the Starship launch system.

It is scheduled for Sept. 15 UTC with the launch window opening at midnight. That is 8:00 PM EDT at the launch site and 5:00 PM PDT at SpaceX mission control on September 14th. Unlike NASA Dragon launches it is not an instantaneous launch window but instead lasts 24 hours ending when a second...

A fourth was the destruction of a satellite by the nuclear warhead of a U.S. Army Nike Zeus missile in May 1963. The Soviet Union conducted dozens of tests of anti-satellite weapons which, while they did not destroy satellites, exploded warheads in space creating clouds of shrapnel. In...