Ever since it was selected by NASA back in 2021 to make the lander that will take the crew of the Artemis III mission to the surface of the Moon, SpaceX has mostly kept to itself on the development of ...

At the heart of this lunar mission is the Starship Human Landing System (HLS), a modified version of SpaceX’s revolutionary spacecraft. Standing at an impressive 50 meters tall and 9 meters in ...

Amid numerous questions about whether SpaceX can have the Human Landing System (HLS) variant of Starship ready in time for Artemis 3, the company released a significant amount of information on its ...

With NASA's first lunar landing since the Apollo era only a few years away, the space agency has yet to determine exactly how its astronauts will reach the moon. On Thursday, a NASA spokesperson told ...

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell assured NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that the Human Landing System (HLS) variant of Starship (Lunar Starship) remains on track for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, currently ...

Members of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel believe the Human Landing System version of Starship won’t be ready for Artemis 3’s launch in 2027. Reading time 3 minutes NASA aims to return astronauts ...

Experts warn that the Starship Human Landing System may be years behind schedule, but SpaceX says it has a new plan to save its Artemis 3 contract. Reading time 4 minutes SpaceX and NASA are, in many ...

SpaceX defends Starship HLS as the "central enabler" of the Artemis program. Credit: SpaceX After Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy criticized delays, SpaceX issued a lengthy progress report on ...

WASHINGTON — SpaceX says it is developing a “simplified” lunar landing mission architecture while defending the progress it has made on its Starship lander for Artemis. In an Oct. 30 statement, the ...

Booster reuse is a nice to have, but it is absolutely not required to perform the HLS mission. On the other hand, the HLS mission absolutely requires that Ships do not constantly vibrate themselves to ...

Illustration of a SpaceX Starship lunar lander on the moon. Credit: SpaceX PARIS — NASA safety advisers say they doubt the lunar lander version of SpaceX’s Starship will be ready to support the ...