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Home News Spaceflight SpaceX will launch a Japanese lander and United Arab Emirates (UAE) rover to the moon early Sunday (Dec. 11), and you can watch the action live. The Japanese company ispace's Mission 1 is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Sunday at 2:38 a.m.…

Artist’s illustration of the Lunar Flashlight spacecraft firing its lasers toward the moon’s surface. Credit: NASA NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft, a small briefcase-size CubeSat that could break new ground in the search for water ice on the moon, is hitching a ride to space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…

Bye to the bird app. Controversial entrepreneur Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has led to many polarizing opinions — and many stars’ departures from the social media platform. “Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” the SpaceX founder — who took…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday that K-pop star T.O.P will be among eight people who will join him on a flight around the moon on a SpaceX spaceship in the coming years. The Japanese tycoon launched plans for the lunar voyage in 2018, buying all the…

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on Friday (9 November) announced the crew who would join him on a private SpaceX flight around the moon. The eight-member crew comprises artists, athletes and entertainers, including K-Pop star TOP, YouTuber Tim Dodd, and Indian actor Dev Joshi among others. Maezawa revealed his pick for…

        | Updated: Friday, December 9, 2022, 11:38 SpaceX has set a new launch date for a private Japanese Moon lander after being hit by multiple delays. The space company will now be targeting December 11 for launch. If things go according to plan, a Falcon 9…

by Jason Rainbow — December 8, 2022 SpaceX launched 40 satellites Dec. 8 in the first of three missions for OneWeb's rival broadband constellation. Credit: SpaceX webcast TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched 40 satellites for OneWeb’s rival broadband constellation Dec. 8 on a Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket lifted…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX launched a big batch of OneWeb internet satellites into orbit Thursday evening (Dec. 8) on a mission that supports a megaconstellation competitor after OneWeb's own launch plans were derailed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 40 OneWeb satellites launhed from NASA's Kennedy…

by Jason Rainbow — December 8, 2022 T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert (left) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced plans for direct-to-cellphone satellite services at SpaceX’s Starbase test site in Texas. Credit: SpaceX webcast TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX could provide “full and continuous” direct-to-smartphone services across much of the globe with…

Home News Spaceflight A Japanese billionaire picked his crewmates for the first-ever artist-centered mission. Yusaku Maezawa, who made his fortune as an online fashion retailer, announced the eight people who would be flying with him on the dearMoon mission, which aims to use a SpaceX Starship to fly around the moon…