{"id":589909,"date":"2026-04-17T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589909\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:37:10","slug":"rocket-report-starship-v3-test-fired-esas-tentative-step-toward-crew-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589909\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Report: Starship V3 test-fired; ESA’s tentative step toward crew launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Edition 8.37 of the Rocket Report! NASA is still climbing down from the high of the Artemis II mission, the first flight by humans to the Moon since 1972. What a mission it was! Now, attention turns to completing development of a lander to get astronauts down to the Moon\u2019s surface. Among other things, we chronicle the latest progress of NASA\u2019s two lunar lander contractors, SpaceX and Blue Origin, in this week\u2019s Rocket Report.<\/p>\n

As always, we welcome reader submissions<\/a>. If you don\u2019t want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets, as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.<\/p>\n

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Moonshot from the last frontier. Israel-based space launch company Moonshot Space will site its first electromagnetic accelerator in Fairbanks, Alaska, under a memorandum of understanding signed at Space Symposium with spaceport operator Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC), Aviation Week & Space Technology reports<\/a>. Moonshot, which emerged from stealth mode in December with $12 million in fundraising, is developing a high-power electromagnetic launcher system to propel payloads and enable cargo deliveries into space at hypersonic speed using electricity rather than chemical fuels, The Times of Israel reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Favoring the bold… \u201cThis agreement reflects AAC\u2019s commitment to pioneer innovation in the Last Frontier,\u201d said John Oberst, AAC\u2019s CEO. \u201cWe are working to align infrastructure, partnerships, and regulatory pathways to support next-generation space access with visionary companies like Moonshot Space.\u201d Moonshot\u2019s chief operating officer and co-founder, Shahar Bahiri, admits the company\u2019s vision is \u201cextremely brave\u201d and having a spaceport operator embrace it \u201cis not taken for granted.\u201d Moonshot\u2019s approach is, indeed, unusual. Even if the company gets the technology to work, the kinetic launch approach comes with the downside of extreme accelerations, which could damage or destroy normal satellites. Instead, Moonshot envisions shooting raw materials in orbit for in-space manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Edition 8.37 of the Rocket Report! NASA is still climbing down from the high of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-589909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}