Seoul (AFP) South Korea’s first-ever military communications satellite has been successfully launched by private operator SpaceX, Seoul said Tuesday, as it looks to build up its defence capabilities. The ANASIS-II is intended to enhance the South’s ability to defend itself
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted a ninth batch of Starlink internet relay satellites into space early Saturday along with three Planet-owned imaging satellites hitching a ride in SpaceX’s first “SmallSat Rideshare” launch. SpaceX’s 10th Falcon 9 flight so far
SpaceX launched astronauts for the first time barely a week ago but CEO Elon Musk does not want the company resting on its laurels. Instead, Musk urged SpaceX employees to accelerate progress on its next-generation Starship rocket “dramatically and immediately,” writing Saturday
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Elon Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX was set for a repeat attempt at launching two Americans into orbit on Saturday from Florida for a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. The mission’s first
A fourth prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket exploded Friday after a test at the company’s development facility in Texas. The company was conducting a trial of the rocket’s engine, in a test on the ground known as a static
SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, was set to launch two Americans into orbit on Wednesday from Florida on a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from US soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon
NASA said Friday that it has given the green light to next week’s launch of two astronauts aboard a SpaceX vessel — the first crewed space flight to leave from US soil in nine years. Top officials at the US space
SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites will soon sport an accessory to tamp down their surprising brightness. That brightness worries many astronomers, who say that the huge Starlink constellation could seriously disrupt a variety of scientific observations. And Starlink will indeed be huge, if all goes
MT LAUREL, New Jersey — SpaceX is asking the FCC for permission to operate all 4,400 of its first-generation Starlink satellites at much lower altitudes than previously planned. Of the 12,000 Starlink satellites SpaceX plans to eventually launch in its
Three, two, one, zero, grounded. A SpaceX rocket launch was aborted after countdown finished Sunday at Kennedy Space Center. Although some of the Falcon 9’s rockets had already ignited, a power issue triggered an auto abort, the company said. MORE:SpaceX