SpaceX churning out Starship Super Heavy booster parts ahead of stacking

SpaceX is busy churning out dozens of steel rings for Starship’s first Super Heavy booster, the assembly of which CEO Elon Musk says could be just “a few weeks” out. Significantly more than twice the height of Starship’s main propellant tank and engine section, Super Heavy boosters will stand an incredible 70+ meters (230+ feet) […]

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SpaceX Starlink aids Native American tribe: “It catapulted us into the 21st century”

Just a week after news broke that SpaceX was gifting Starlink internet service to Washington State’s Emergency Management department, the state has revealed SpaceX’s satellites are also benefitting the Native American Hoh Tribe. On October 6th, a Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched SpaceX’s 12th batch of operational Starlink satellites and 13th dedicated mission overall. Once […]

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12-year-old genius hopes to land internship with Elon Musk

A 12-year-old boy named Caleb Anderson is about to finish his first college degree at the Chattahoochee Technical College in Marietta, Georgia. However, his goals go far beyond college degrees. He wants to be an intern for Elon Musk someday. Caleb’s Mom, Claire, knew he was going to be a special kid at a young […]

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SpaceX’s Starlink success secures US military contract for custom satellites

SpaceX has won $149 million from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to leverage the successes of its Starlink constellation and build custom satellites for the US Department of Defense (DoD). The development comes as no surprise after SpaceX spent more than six months publishing dozens of job openings for satellite design, development, test, and integration […]

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SpaceX’s aces Starlink launch, landing, and catch as Elon Musk teases public beta ETA

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched the 12th batch of ~60 operational Starlink satellites, bringing more than 19 days of delays and five separate launch attempts to a welcome close. SpaceX’s Starlink-12 success comes in the midst of an unusual scourge of launch scrubs and aborts that began with United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) […]

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket readied for third Starlink launch attempt [webcast]

On the heels of a rare last-second Falcon 9 launch abort, SpaceX is closing in on its third attempt to launch the 12th batch of operational Starlink satellites. Scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39A (Pad 39A) no earlier than (NET) 7:51 am EDT (11:51 UTC) on Monday, October 5th, […]

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SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule christened ahead of operational astronaut launch debut

The long-standing tradition of astronauts naming the spacecraft that transports them safely to and from space continues ahead of SpaceX’s next crewed flight to the International Space Station (ISS). Shortly after safely arriving in low Earth orbit during SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission to the ISS under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken […]

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SpaceX eyes two Falcon 9 rocket launches, landings in eleven hours

SpaceX appears to be targeting two separate Falcon 9 launches less than eleven hours apart after a pad sensor scrubbed the company’s latest Starlink-12 launch attempt. SpaceX’s 12th operational Starlink launch and 13th overall, the mission is now up to its fourth aborted launch attempt after a weather delay on September 17th, an unspecified delay […]

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SpaceX’s first high-altitude Starship fitted with flaps and rolled to the launch pad

After a four-day delay, SpaceX has successfully installed the first high-altitude Starship at its Boca Chica launch pad not long after the rocket was outfitted with large flaps. Technically the second time a Starship was outfitted with flaps, Starship serial number 8 had the bottom half of its aerodynamic control surfaces installed on September 23rd […]

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SpaceX Falcon rockets win third consecutive NASA launch contract

SpaceX’s Falcon family of rockets continue to dominate the US launch market, most recently securing their third consecutive NASA launch contract this year. On September 25th, NASA announced that it had awarded SpaceX a contract to launch its Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission and several rideshare payloads. For $109.4 million, a SpaceX Falcon […]

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