SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has offered a new glimpse inside the company’s rapidly-expanding South Texas Starship factory, revealing the beginnings of the next-generation rocket’s first true assembly line — and a wealth of spacecraft hardware. Situated two or so miles from the Gulf of Mexico (and Mexico itself) in Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX has been […]
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One lucky fisherman and space geek has found the “catch of his life” off the coast of Daytona Beach in Florida after fishing the door of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and two parachutes out of the water. Charter boat fisherman David Stokes has posted a video of him showcasing his spectacular catch on YouTube. […]
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SpaceX’s Starlink has passed the first of a series of regulatory hurdles needed before it can operate as a foreign-owned satellite operator with permission to use Australian radio frequencies. Local news outlet ABC News Australia reports Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been approved by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to become part of the […]
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Scheduled as early as next week, SpaceX’s next rocket launch could see the company break a 20-month-old record that is closely intertwined with the reusability of its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy boosters. Unsurprisingly, that record – if broken – will tag along on one of up to two dozen Starlink satellite launches SpaceX has […]
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SpaceX chief and founder Elon Musk attended the company’s Career Day at the Boca Chica facility in Texas on Thursday. Musk was seen at the Stargate building talking to local news outlets and speaking with a few job seekers in attendance. Twitter user @MartePaa shares a video of the SpaceX chief responding to him saying, […]
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A SpaceX engineer says that the company wants to adopt commercially-available manufacturing equipment that could allow its Boca Chica, Texas team to build Starship tank parts in minutes and nearly-complete rocket bodies in a matter of days. Originally created to meet the needs of a variety of different companies – typically oil and gas related […]
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Elon Musk will be headed to a SpaceX “Starship Career Day” event at its Boca Chica facility in Texas on Thursday, as the company prepares its next-generation Starship spacecraft for its first high-altitude test flight. The California-based aerospace company is looking to shore up its production staff to allow for four shifts for 24/7 operations. […]
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According to an engineer’s February presentation, SpaceX is on the brink of shipping its first NASA astronaut-rated Crew Dragon spacecraft to Kennedy Space Center – arguably the company’s biggest milestone yet on the path to human spaceflight. In the last year, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon program has undeniably stumbled a few times, suffering challenging parachute failures […]
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After several successful tests last month, Elon Musk says that SpaceX’s South Texas Starship team is looking to rapidly expand in order to aggressively ramp up Starship manufacturing in a sign that the nascent rocket factory is making excellent progress. Almost immediately after SpaceX successfully wrapped up its first and second explosive Starship tank tests […]
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Thanks to a recent cluster of major milestones, SpaceX’s family of Falcon 9 and Heavy rockets are rapidly nearing their reusability zenith — approaching the halfway point on the path to several ambitious booster and fairing design goals. Back in the early 2010s, SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk’s original dream was to make Falcon 9 and […]
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