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SpaceX finished construction of its second launch tower down at Starbase, Texas for its Starship rocket. This comes hopefully a few weeks out from the next launch of the company’s next generation rocket.

Over the last few months SpaceX has cleared land and constructed a new launch tower at its research, development, and launch facilities down at Starbase, Texas. This now gives the company three towers total for Starship, two at Starbase and one more over in Florida at LC-39A.

There is still plenty of work to be done at the pad, it still needs the launch table, chopsticks, plumbing for propellent, etc. However, the biggest and most prominent feature is now complete.

No airlock? No problem.

I expect that space-based atom interferometry will lead to exciting new discoveries and fantastic quantum technologies impacting everyday life, and will transport us into a quantum future.

The integration of graphene-metal metastructures with laser micropropulsion systems promises significant advancements in space exploration and energy systems.

“Once it leaves our facility, it hits the launch pad and launches into space,” he said.

Final testing and launch preparations for Dream Chaser’s maiden flight remain ongoing at KSC. The 30-foot-long cargo space plane — named Tenacity — arrived at the Cape in mid-May from NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.

Join Jeff Bezos for a tour inside Blue Origin’s New Glenn Production Facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This video was shot on May 30th, 2024.

00:00 — Intro.
00:40 — Interview Starts [Lobby]
05:20 — Recovering Saturn V Engines.
08:35 — Tank Production.
16:40 — Second Stage.
23:50 — Aft Section.
33:15 — Forward Section.
42:08 — Machine Shop.
51:35 — Payload Adapter and Fairings.
1:00:00 — Engines.
1:11:20 — Outro.

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A Durham native and three other crew members are preparing to embark on a flight of a lifetime to push the boundaries of commercial space exploration.

On Aug. 26, Mission pilot Scott Poteet will help lead SpaceX’s Falcon Rocket with the goal of soaring more than 1,400 kilometers at approximately 17,500 mph beyond Earth’s atmosphere. The launch will take place at the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida.

The Polaris Dawn mission — the first of three flights billionaire and Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman purchased from SpaceX in 2022 for his human spaceflight effort known as the Polaris Program — is set to launch from Florida in the early hours of Aug. 26.

“We don’t get the freedom of any time of day to launch but I think it’ll work out to [be] pretty close to dawn, which is very appropriate given the mission,” Isaacman told CNBC’s Investing in Space during an interview last month.

The mission aims to investigate whether Jupiter’s three moons – Callisto, Europa and Ganymede – can support life in its oceans.