CEO Elon Musk has reiterated that SpaceX is still pursuing a major rocket reuse milestone he originally set for the company several years ago and revealed that its Falcon rockets could ultimately soar far beyond it. Musk has been talking publicly about reusable rockets for well over a decade but the first hard numbers linked […]
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SpaceX is working with PredaSAR and Swarm Technologies to launch dozens of small satellites into orbit, contributing to Starlink Falcon 9 missions, according to reports. PredaSAR signed a contract to launch a small satellite with the help of SpaceX on August 4. The two companies are still in talks to launch PredaSAR’s first constellation, made […]
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On the heels of a successful ~$350 million fundraising round, SpaceX has crushed its own expectations of a second, far more ambitious fundraiser, likely ensuring stable Starship and Starlink development for years to come. First reported by Bloomberg on July 23rd, SpaceX’s second investment round of 2020 initially pursued $1 billion in funding, boosting the […]
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SpaceX has made Falcon 9 rocket fairing recovery look easy in a video of the latest nosecone catch, published hours after the company’s successful Starlink-10 launch. Posted on Twitter by Elon Musk not long after a SpaceX webcast host and engineer revealed that one of two fairing catch attempts had been successful, the video offers […]
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SpaceX is hours away from crossing off a major rocket reusability milestone while simultaneously attempting the 100th launch of a Falcon rocket. SpaceX’s 10th Starlink v1.0 satellite launch, 11th Starlink mission overall, and ninth Starlink launch this year alone is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida no earlier than (NET) 10:31 am EDT […]
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CEO Elon Musk has revealed that SpaceX crushed a global rocketry record during a recent Raptor engine test, pushing the crucial Starship component past years-old performance targets. On August 17th, the SpaceX CEO unexpectedly released a photo of a Raptor test and a corresponding graph showing the engine’s chamber pressure, confirming that the company had […]
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SpaceX appears to have successfully completed one of three major tests standing between a new Starship prototype and the rocket’s next hop. Known as a cryogenic proof test (“cryo proof”), signs currently point towards a success on Starship SN6’s first try – albeit an hour or two past the end of the planned test window. […]
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is racing through space towards the red planet, and one of its onboard companions just completed an important mission milestone. The team running Ingenuity, a tiny helicopter set to be the first craft to fly on another world, powered systems up on August 7 and brought its six lithium-ion batteries up […]
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SpaceX has begun large-scale Starship heat shield installation tests with the help of robots delivered last month in a sign that the company has already begun preparing for the rocket’s first orbital flight test campaign. Designed to eventually replace SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, Starship is a fully-reusable two-stage rocket powered […]
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SpaceX’s sixth full-scale Starship prototype has rolled from its Boca Chica, Texas factory to a nearby launch pad in a sure sign that preparation for a second hop test is well underway. Barely a week after Starship SN5 became the first such prototype to take flight, SpaceX has transported the rocket back to an assembly […]
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