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By NASA August 20, 2022 The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft backs away from the space station moments after undocking from the Harmony module’s forward port during an orbital sunrise. Credit: NASA TV At 11:00 a.m. EDT (8:00 a.m. PDT) on Friday, August 19, flight controllers on the ground sent commands…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Aug. 19) and also aced a rocket landing at sea. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at, appropriately enough, 3:21…

by Jason Rainbow — August 18, 2022 Starship launch vehicle stacked in Boca Chica, Texas. Credit: SpaceX TAMPA, Fla. — Sky Perfect JSAT said Aug. 18 it has picked SpaceX’s Starship rocket to launch its Superbird-9 satellite in 2024. The Japanese satellite operator said it signed a contract for a…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's Starship SN24 prototype test-fires two Raptor engines at sunset in Boca Chica, Texas on Aug. 9, 2022. (Image credit: SpaceX via Elon Musk/Twitter) Another customer has signed up to use SpaceX's giant Starship rocket. Sky Perfect JSat has chosen Starship to launch its Superbird-9 communications satellite…

Home News Spaceflight Updated at 9:30 am ET. A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will leave the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday morning (Aug. 19), and you can watch it live. The robotic Dragon is scheduled to depart the orbiting lab Friday around 11:05 a.m. EDT (1505 GMT). Watch the…

A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, August 18, and NASA will livestream the entire process. The Dragon will carry back to Earth more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and scientific experiments that ISS astronauts worked on in microgravity conditions. At the…

Elon Musk's Twitter profile is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this picture illustration taken April 28, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comAug 17 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk, the chief executive of electric automaker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and rocket company…

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Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk believes that Twitter is in material breach of the merger agreement with him, so he has the right to terminate the deal. The social media giant has refused to provide critical information relating to spam and fake accounts on its platform, Musk’s legal team…

DETROIT (AP) — Elon Musk is threatening to walk away from his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot and fake accounts. Lawyers for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the threat in a letter to Twitter dated…