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Home » Energy » SpaceX Will Not Convert Oil Rig Platforms Into Sea Launch Platforms Gwynne Shotwell told reporters last week that SpaceX sold the two oil rigs that SpaceX was converting for launching and landing rockets. Shotwell said they were not the right platform. SpaceX is still interested in…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been granted a license to launch its high-speed internet service, Starlink in Rwanda. This was contained in a recent announcement issued by the CEO of Rwanda Space Agency, Francis Ngabo. Ngabo who issued the license described the development as a new milestone in the country’s journey…

RossHelen/Shutterstock In a stunning admission, Elon Musk's SpaceX confessed that the company intervened against Ukrainian forces in the ongoing conflict with Russia. SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell admitted to CNN that SpaceX limited Ukrainian access to the company's Starlink satellite internet, damaging reliable internet access in the war-torn country and…

Launch approval — Amazon's 3,236-satellite plan greenlit despite SpaceX seeking 578-satellite limit. Jon Brodkin - Feb 9, 2023 7:49 pm UTC Enlarge / Amazon will launch satellites using Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance. Amazon's Kuiper division can start launching satellites to offer broadband service in the US, the…

Media accreditation is open for SpaceX’s 27th commercial resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for no earlier than Friday, March 10, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida...Read More

EDITOR’S NOTE: SpaceX has scrubbed the launch attempt for Sunday, Feb. 5, due to unfavorable launch and recovery weather. Another launch attempt is set for 5:32 p.m. EST (2232 GMT) Monday, Feb. 6. Artist’s concept of the Amazonas Nexus satellite in orbit, with its antennas and solar arrays unfurled. Credit: Thales…

The Soviet Union reached a peak of 108 successful space launches in one year (1982) during the Cold War and will be on pace to pass them with 110 to 140 launches in 2023. Planet4589 has a launchlog of all orbital space flights. The SpaceX raptor engine factory at 1000…

TAMPA, Fla. — Ovzon said Feb. 3 the launch of its first satellite has been pushed out by at least another five months after manufacturing delays forced it to swap out Arianespace for SpaceX. The Swedish broadband provider had hoped to piggyback Ovzon 3 on one of Arianespace’s last few…

Home News Spaceflight A long-exposure photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching 53 Starlink satellites from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 2, 2023. (Image credit: SpaceX via Twitter) SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket notched its 200th successful orbital mission on Thursday (Feb. 2), and the company marked…

SpaceX had 7 successful orbital launches in January, 2023 and is scheduled for 14 orbital launches in February, 2023. The January, 2023 launch pace is an annualized 84 launches but the if the February schedule happens then SpaceX will be tracking to 126 launches in 2023. 14 Launches in 28…