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NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket stands on Launch Complex 39B, behind the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now Spaceflight Now took an aerial tour around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the days before the scheduled launch…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX launched 54 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit and landed a rocket on a ship at sea on Saturday night (Aug. 27). A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carrying 54 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Saturday at 11:41…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Starlink 4-23 mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of 54 Starlink broadband satellites. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live SpaceX hauled another 54 Starlink…

by Jason Rainbow — August 26, 2022 A Falcon 9 rocket launching a batch of Starlink satellites in May. Credit: SpaceX TAMPA, Fla. — A U.S. appeals court Aug. 26 upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s year-old decision to let SpaceX deploy more satellites at lower altitudes to improve the Starlink…

No coverage zones will soon be a thing of the past Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced that, in partnership with T-Mobile, Starlink’s Gen-2 satellites will be able to project signals directly to mobile phones, providing roughly 2 to 4 Megabits per second connection speeds. T-Mobile’s press release…

by Jason Rainbow — August 25, 2022 T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert (left) and SpaceX CEO announced plans for direct-to-cellphone satellite services at SpaceX's Starbase test site in Texas. Credit: SpaceX webcast TAMPA, Fla. — T-Mobile announced plans Aug. 25 to use SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites next year to bring connectivity…

Home News Spaceflight The crew of SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station. From left: Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA has been pushed back four…

SpaceX test-fires a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Spaceflight Now SpaceX rolled a Falcon 9 rocket to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral and test-fired its engines Thursday, prepping for liftoff Saturday night carrying another group of Starlink internet satellites into orbit. The Falcon…

by Jeff Foust — August 24, 2022 NASA says the Starship that lands on the moon as soon as 2024 on an uncrewed test flight may not be identical to the one that carries people to the surface and back on Artemis 3. Credit: SpaceX LAUREL, Md. — A SpaceX…

by Jason Rainbow — August 22, 2022 SpaceX's Starship Ship 20 vehicle fires a Raptor engine during an Oct. 21, 2021, static-fire test. Credit: SpaceX TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX has decided to use a mix of Falcon 9 and Starship rockets to launch the 30,000 satellites in its proposed second-generation…