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Home News Spaceflight SpaceX will launch a spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Sunday morning (April 17), and you can watch the liftoff live. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with the NROL-85 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California…

SpaceX raised a Falcon 9 rocket vertical Saturday at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California after a two-day delay caused by technical and weather problems. The rocket will carry a classified payload into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office. Liftoff is set for 6:13 a.m. EDT (9:13 a.m. EDT; 1313…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with the NROL-85 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX Webcast SpaceX Mission Audio Read…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with launch delay to Saturday, April 16. Updated again with launch delay to Sunday, April 17. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sits horizontal Thursday at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Credit: Brian Sandoval / Spaceflight Now SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Central…

It was a classic Elon Musk move: announce a new offering that would radically transform the technology landscape, flog it onstage and in social media posts, only for it to turn out that the offering in question was nowhere close to market-ready. Only this time, it wasn’t a self-driving taxi…

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Home News Spaceflight Crew-4 astronauts Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren and Samantha Cristoforetti on the Crew Dragon "Freedom." (Image credit: SpaceX) The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station have had their launch pushed back again, to April 23. SpaceX and NASA chose that date…

by Jason Rainbow — April 11, 2022 SpaceX launched four batches of Starlink satellites across four separate missions in May. Credit: SpaceX After revolutionizing the launch industry through vertical integration, SpaceX hopes to do the same for satellite broadband with its Starlink megaconstellation. Starlink’s go-it-alone approach contrasts with OneWeb and…

by Park Si-soo — April 11, 2022 In this July 20, 2020, image, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with South Korea’s first military communications satellite, Anasis-2, aboard. South Korea recently signed a contract with SpaceX to launch five reconnaissance satellites by 2025, with the first…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will not be joining the Twitter board of directorsTwitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal shared the news of Musk not joining the Twitter board, stating that his input will always be considered whether he is on the board or not.  Twitter’s CEO Parag Agrawal announced today that Tesla…