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Was SpaceX's first attempt to launch its Starship rocket a failure?

The huge Starship rocket made its first launch attempt on 20 April, but blew up shortly after – while the mission wasn’t a complete failure, it might be a while before we see it try to get to space again

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Shooting stars and Starlink stellites leaving streaks in photographs of the night sky

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SpaceX's efforts to make satellites less bright aren't working well

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Starship exploded about 4 minutes after take off

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SpaceX’s enormous Starship rocket finally launched – and then exploded

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SpaceX's Starship is scheduled to launch on 20 April

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Starship launch livestream: Watch as SpaceX begins second attempt

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Starship livestream: Watch SpaceX launch the most powerful rocket ever

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Members of the SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission

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SpaceX launches Crew-6 astronaut team to International Space Station

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Space X Falcon 9 rocket on launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida

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SpaceX launch scrapped at last minute leaving NASA astronauts grounded

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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches on its mission with a classified payload for the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., November 1, 2022. REUTERS/Steve Nesius - HP1EIB112QE00

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket just launched two Space Force satellites

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This photograph taken on September 25, 2022, shows an antenna of the Starlink satellite-based broadband system donated by the US tech billionaire Elon Musk in Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

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What's next if SpaceX won't fund Starlink in Ukraine?

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The Hubble Space Telescope

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SpaceX may help the Hubble Space Telescope boost its lifespan

NASA and SpaceX are studying whether it would be possible to use a Dragon spacecraft to boost the Hubble Space Telescope’s orbit, extending its lifetime by up to 20 years

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Lori Garver on why NASA is returning to the moon for the wrong reasons

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Watch Axiom and SpaceX launch all-commercial mission to the ISS

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Watch: Axiom and SpaceX launch first all-private crew to ISS

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We mustn’t let the billionaire rocket men decide what happens in space

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