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US: SpaceX Launches 11th Starship Test Flight

SpaceX successfully launched its 11th Starship test flight on October 13 from its Starbase facility in South Texas, marking the final flight of the current version before a new variant is introduced for future moon and Mars missions.

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US: Crowd Cheers as SpaceX’s Starship Soars on 10th Test Flight

SpaceX’s Starship rocket was launched from Starbase, Texas on Tuesday, August 26, with cheers erupting from spectators on South Padre Island. The massive rocket soared into the sky on its 10th test flight, after a series of explosive failures.

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Spacecraft Orion developed for Mars trip lifts off on 1st test flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - A Delta 4 Heavy rocket, carrying NASA's next-generation spacecraft Orion, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Dec. 5, 2014 in its first unmanned test flight. Orion was developed to carry astronauts to an asteroid in the 2020s and to Mars in the 2030s.

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Spacecraft Orion developed for Mars trip lifts off on 1st test flight

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - A Delta 4 Heavy rocket, carrying NASA's next-generation spacecraft Orion, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Dec. 5, 2014 in its first unmanned test flight. Orion was developed to carry astronauts to an asteroid in the 2020s and to Mars in the 2030s.

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NASA unveils new Mars probe

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - NASA unveiled to the press July 20 the new Mars probe (L) to be launched in August at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on July 20. At right back is a cover to wrap the probe to be placed on the top of a rocket.

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Japan launches its 1st Mars probe

The M-5 rocket carrying Japan's first Mars probe, Planet-B, lifts off from the Kagoshima Space Center in Uchinoura, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan on July 4. Planet-B, which was renamed ''Nozomi (Hope)'' after the launch, will orbit the Earth until December before heading toward Mars on a mission to investigate the upper atmosphere of the red planet and its interaction with solar wind. It is scheduled to begin orbiting Mars in October 1999.

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Japan's spacecraft to explore Mars

The M-5 rocket carrying the Planet-B spacecraft, Japan's first spacecraft to explore Mars, is shown to the press at the Kagoshima Space Center in Uchinoura, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Thursday July 2. Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) plans to launch the spacecraft later in July.

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UAE's Mars orbiter launched on Japanese rocket

MINAMITANE, Japan Kyodo - An H2A rocket carrying Hope, a Mars orbiter developed by the United Arab Emirates, takes off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 20, 2020. (Kyodo)

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NASA unveils new Mars probe

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - NASA unveiled to the press July 20 the new Mars probe (L) to be launched in August at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on July 20. At right back is a cover to wrap the probe to be placed on the top of a rocket. (Kyodo)

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