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Home News Spaceflight When SpaceX launch two satellites into orbit Friday evening from Florida, it lit up the night sky with more than just its fiery engines.  The twilight launch of two commercial SES satelltes, called O3b mPower 1 and 2, on Dec. 16 created brilliant jellyfish-like plume in the…

Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched for an unprecedented 15th time on Saturday (Dec. 17), extending the company's reusability record. A Falcon 9 topped with 54 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Saturday at 4:32 p.m. ET (2132 GMT). …

by Jason Rainbow — December 16, 2022 A Falcon 9 launched the first two satellites for SES' O3b mPower constellation Dec. 16. Credit: SpaceX CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched the first O3b mPower satellites for SES’ next-generation broadband constellation Dec. 16, each promising 10 times more throughput than their…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch a replay of our live coverage of the Falcon 9 launch with the O3b mPOWER 1 and 2 satellites. SFN Live SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday from Cape Canaveral on a mission to boost two high-power broadband satellites for SES’s O3b mPOWER network toward a unique…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography, or SWOT, satellite for NASA and the French space agency CNES. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page.…

Home News Spaceflight Update for 8:30 am ET: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite into orbit to study Earth's oceans and water like never before. See launch and rocket landing video, and read our full launch wrap story. SpaceX will launch…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX continues to gear up for the first-ever orbital test flight of its Starship Mars rocket. SpaceX performed another "static fire" test today (Dec. 15) at its South Texas facility, lighting up Ship 24, a prototype of Starship's 165-foot-tall (50 meters) upper-stage spacecraft. One of Ship 24's…

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography, or SWOT, satellite during solar array deployment testing at Thales Alenia Space’s factory in Cannes, France. Credit: Thales Alenia Space A French-built satellite equipped with an innovative U.S.-made radar instrument is buttoned up for blastoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Friday from California,…

The final (commercial) frontier: A new space infrastructure startup called "ThinkOrbital" wants to boldly go where no manufacturing corporation has gone before — low-Earth orbit. It aims to construct a space station for manufacturing various commercial products. It says the platform can also recycle space junk. Former SpaceX exec Lee…

Thunderfoot, Phil Mason, is a popular youtuber despite putting out wrong information. He likes to try to “bust” Elon Musk for Tesla, Boring Company and SpaceX. This is obviously because Elon Musk is the most successful businessman in the world who has the largest following on Twitter. Attack videos against…