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SpaceX is counting down to a static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The test-firing of the booster’s nine engines is in preparation for a launch with 54 more Starlink internet satellites as soon as Sunday night at…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Sept. 11 after Starlink 4-34 launch delay. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 39A Saturday morning. Credit: Spaceflight Now The 39th and 40th launches of the year from Florida’s Space Coast are set to blast off Saturday night and Tuesday night on missions to deploy more…

Apple’s SOS feature would work better wiyh SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. Just last month, SpaceX and T-Mobile announced a plan called Coverage Above & Beyond that would provide text coverage to users in dead zones. Coverage Above & Beyond will take a slice of T-Mobile’s mid-band PCS Spectrum and integrate it…

Following the debut of the iPhone 14 this week, Elon Musk has claimed that Apple had been locked in talks with SpaceX about the new handset's satellite capabilities. Responding to a wishful tech fan wondering whether the gadget giant would hook up with SpaceX's Starlink for the Emergency SOS feature,…

September 9, 2022 by Aishwarya shashikumar When Dogecoin first appeared on the scene, it completely changed the game. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, seized every chance to support DOGE. By adding support for the meme cryptocurrency asset on Tesla, SpaceX, and most lately, Loop, he increased his interest in…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain While hundreds of thousands of people made their way to the Space Coast two weekends in a row for a shot to see the most powerful rocket to ever lift off from Earth, a couple of scrubs for NASA's Artemis I mission left them disappointed. But…

OneWeb has taken a $229.2 million hit after it cancelled launches from Russia's Baikonur facility, and a number of its low Earth orbit satellites that were waiting to be sent to space were not returned. The detail was disclosed in OneWeb's annual report , in which the company announced revenue…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX sent a space tug aloft along with another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Sunday night (Sept. 4) — and landed a rocket on a ship at sea as well. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on…

Interview "There is no SpaceX without NASA," Thomas Zurbuchen, an associate administrator at the US space agency's Science Mission Directorate, told The Register this week as a Falcon 9 lurked in the background at Cape Canaveral. Zurbuchen was not being combative – SpaceX boss Elon Musk has acknowledged the mutual…

Spacecraft engineering company SpaceX and T-Mobile recently announced a partnership that will enable smartphones to connect directly to satellites. According to GSM Arena, this will be supported by upcoming Starlink V2 satellites but will work with existing phones because it will use an existing band in the PCS spectrum. Google…