{"id":796363,"date":"2025-05-29T07:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796363"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:34:05","slug":"will-spacexs-starship-rocket-ever-work-and-what-if-it-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796363","title":{"rendered":"Will SpaceX\u2019s Starship rocket ever work &#8211; and what if it doesn\u2019t?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Starship\u2019s ninth test flight took place on 27 May<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Joe Marino\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Another launch, another failure? With the ninth flight of SpaceX\u2019s massive Starship rocket ending in the vehicle\u2019s loss, questions are being asked about whether Elon Musk\u2019s company can ever deliver on its promises to return people to the moon, launch new space stations and one day take astronauts to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expected more progress from SpaceX by now,\u201d says Laura Forczyk at space industry consultancy Astralytical. \u201cIt\u2019s frustrating from an outsider\u2019s perspective, because I\u2019m rooting for them. So much of the space community is relying on\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2482339-will-spacexs-starship-rocket-ever-work-and-what-if-it-doesnt\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starship\u2019s ninth test flight took place on 27 May Joe Marino\/UPI\/Shutterstock Another launch, another failure? With the ninth flight of SpaceX\u2019s massive Starship rocket ending in the vehicle\u2019s loss, questions&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}