CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched its second rocket of the year Thursday morning (Jan. 13) as one of its veteran boosters carried 105 small satellites into orbit before landing back on Earth. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket lifted off into a clear
There were 48 Starlink satellites on board, plus two Earth observation satellites for BlackSky Global. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX just launched the first of four planned Falcon 9 rocket launches this month, with its workhorse rocket carrying a stack
SpaceX “will need all hands on deck to recover from what is, quite frankly, a disaster,” Musk wrote in an email recently. A close-up of three SpaceX Raptor engines clustered together for the company’s Starship SN8 prototype. (Image credit: SpaceX) Elon
“What we’re trying to learn is how to deflect a threat,” NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen said. NASA will launch a mission to crash into an asteroid (on purpose) overnight tonight and you can watch it lift off live online. The agency’s
You can tune in for the 30-minute update today (Nov. 17) at 6 p.m. EST (2300 GMT). Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, will give an update on his company’s progress on its huge new Starship rocket and you
SN20 continues its march toward launch. SpaceX continues to prep its latest Starship prototype for a landmark orbital test flight. The Starship SN20 vehicle ignited all six of its Raptor engines in a brief “static fire” test today (Nov. 12) at Starbase,
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A shiny new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the company’s Crew-3 mission docked successfully at the orbiting lab Thursday evening (Nov. 11). The Crew Dragon Endurance, which launched SpaceX’s
paceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station from Florida on Wednesday evening, as the company keeps up a steady pace of crewed missions. Known as Crew-3, the mission for NASA will bring the quartet to the ISS for a
The four Crew-2 astronauts returned to Earth after 199 days in space. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After six months in space, SpaceX’s Crew-2 astronauts returned to Earth late Monday (Nov. 8), splashing down off the Florida coast to end the
SpaceX and NASA will now resume their Artemis moon lander project ‘as soon as possible. NASA picked SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, seen here in an artist’s depiction, to land Artemis astronauts on the moon. (Image credit: SpaceX) Blue Origin has lost the