The joint SpaceX-NASA historic mission which brought human spaceflight back to U.S. soil after nearly a decade is set to return from Earth orbit on August 1, 2020, per NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine’s announcement Friday afternoon. Capsule splashdown is scheduled for August 2nd. The mission’s return will mark a long-duration stay in space of just […]
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SpaceX has scrapped the lone Starship prototype built in Florida in 2019, surprising very few. Beginning a few months after work began on Starship Mk1 at SpaceX’s South Texas production facilities, a separate team in Cocoa, Florida was tasked with building a similar Starship Mk2 prototype. Not much is known about Mk2 relative to its […]
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster tasked with launching Crew Dragon on its first operational NASA astronaut mission arrived in Florida on Tuesday after a three-day drive from Texas. Second only to the arrival of the new Crew Dragon spacecraft (likely C207) that will ferry three NASA astronauts and one Japanese (JAXA) crew member to […]
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Despite a minor launch delay, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket still has a shot a breaking a NASA Space Shuttle reuse world record that has lasted for more than three decades. On July 13th, roughly one day prior to a planned liftoff on July 14th, SpaceX announced that it had decided to delay a Falcon […]
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A critical subcomponent of SpaceX’s Starlink ‘user terminal’ has received FCC approval, shedding additional light on the antennas and hardware customers around the world will use to access the orbital internet. Deemed SpaceX’s “Starlink Router” in FCC regulatory approvals published on July 14th, the documents reveal that user terminals will ship to customers with a […]
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SpaceX has stacked a Starship nosecone section to its full height for the first time in almost a year, featuring an upgraded design that could soon support an ambitious series of flight tests. Back in August 2019, SpaceX first began stacking the nose section of Starship Mk1 – the first full-scale prototype of any kind. […]
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SpaceX has scrubbed its latest Starship static fire test for the third time since Friday but if another attempt succeeds within the next few days, a full-scale Starship prototype could lift off for the first time later this week. SpaceX has attempted to perform a Starship static fire every day for the last three days […]
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NASA and SpaceX are less than two weeks away from the first crewed mission to launch from U.S. soil in nearly a decade. But there’s still work to do before the craft blasts off towards the International Space Station. On Friday, May 15, the Crew Dragon spacecraft journeyed from a fueling facility at Cape Canaveral’s […]
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SpaceX was recently denied a $655,500 subsidy for job and training funds by a California State panel on Friday. The panel recognized CEO Elon Musk’s recent threats to move Tesla’s company headquarters from California to a new state after Alameda County officials blocked the electric carmaker’s attempt to reopen production lines at its Bay Area […]
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According to NASASpaceflight.com reporter Michael Baylor, SpaceX’s Starlink-7 satellite launch has been indefinitely delayed due to drone ship constraints, meaning that the company’s Crew Dragon astronaut launch is now up next. As a result, SpaceX’s next orbital launch has been delayed by at least eight days. In return, however, that launch will arguably be the […]
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