Les astronautes Rayyanah Barnawi, Peggy Whitson, John Shoffner et Ali AlQarni à Cape Canaveral, en Floride, le 21 mai 2023. © Joe Raedle, Getty Images via AFP The second-ever private mission to the International Space Station launched Sunday carrying a Saudi
A rendering provided by Vast shows the company’s proposed Haven-1 space station (right) docking with a SpaceX Dragon vehicle (left). CNN — Vast — a California-based startup and one of the newest entrants in the world of privatized spaceflight — plans to
It was SpaceX’s 30th orbital mission of 2023 already. SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites toward orbit and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (May 10). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 51 Starlink spacecraft lifted off
Elon Musk expects SpaceX to spend about $2 billion on its Starship rocket development this year, as the company pushes to build on its first launch earlier this month. “My expectation for the next flight would be to reach orbit,”
Liftoff was set to occur 8:26 p.m. EDT (0026 GMT). Update for April 28: SpaceX is now targeting 8:26 p.m. EDT Friday (April 28), to launch its sixth Falcon Heavy mission carrying satellites for ViaSat, Astranis and Gravity Space. The mission has been
Institutional shareholders in Tesla admonished the company’s board of directors to rein in an “over-committed” CEO Elon Musk in an open letter Friday. The letter follows the midair explosion of the SpaceX Starship in its first test flight Thursday, and
A fully stacked Starship left the ground today (April 20) for the first time ever — and it came to an explosive end high in the Texas sky. SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — The most powerful rocket ever built put
Samples from NASA studies of plant growth, fire safety, and changes in muscles and arteries are returning from the International Space Station April 15 aboard the 27th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission for the agency. After splashdown of Dragon, scientific samples will be taken to
SpaceX’s CRS-27 cargo mission lifted off on time Tuesday (March 14) from Florida. Another Dragon is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX launched its 27th contracted cargo mission for NASA on Tuesday (March 14), sending a robotic Dragon capsule
The four Crew-5 astronauts spent about five months off Earth.\ SpaceX’s Crew-5 astronauts have returned to Earth. The four astronauts on the SpaceX Dragon capsule, named Endurance, splashed down late Saturday (March 11), wrapping up a five-month mission to the International Space Station.