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The delays in the FCC approval for the first SpaceX Super Heavy Starship orbital flight will give SpaceX the time to replace all of the old Raptor rocket engines with new 15% more powerful Raptor 2 engines. The first Starship orbital flight will be with Raptor 2 engines, as they…

by Sandra Erwin — March 26, 2022 Intelsat deployed a mobile network in Haiti in August 2021 after an earthquake destroyed the country’s terrestrial communication network. Credit: Intelsat Intelsat is buying Starlink terminals and services and reselling them as part of a multi-layer, multi-orbit managed network WASHINGTON — If you…

by Jeff Foust — March 26, 2022 SpaceX showed off a completed Starship/Super Heavy vehicle in February, but that vehicle now appears unlikely to perform the first orbital launch attempt once the FAA awards a license to the company. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration has again delayed…

NASA is offering a second lucrative contract to fund a lunar lander for its upcoming mission to put men and the first woman on the Moon, it announced this week. Under the Artemis program, NASA's most ambitious project yet, the space agency hopes to send humans back to the surface…

Pilot Larry Connor and commander Mike Lopez-Alegria (left and right) during training inside a SpaceX simulator. Credit: Axiom Space / SpaceX NASA officials gave the green light Friday for the first all-commercial astronaut launch to the International Space Station on a SpaceX rocket as soon as April 3. But the…

Home News Spaceflight (Image credit: SpaceX) The U.S Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has delayed completion of an environmental review of SpaceX's Starship program by at least another month, to April 29 at the earliest. The FAA has been working on a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA) of Starbase, the South Texas…

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, pilot Bob Hines, commander Kjell Lindgren, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti pose with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s fourth human-rated Crew Dragon spacecraft has been named “Freedom” by the first team of astronauts who will ride it into orbit next month.…

by Jeff Foust — March 24, 2022 Arianespace says that Galileo satellites that were to launch on Soyuz rockets from French Guiana could instead go on Ariane 6 in 2023. Credit: ESA - S. Corvaja WASHINGTON — Arianespace says it is working to remanifest payloads that were to launch on…

NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have selected two astronauts to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station...Read More

by Jeff Foust — March 23, 2022 NASA will select a second company to develop a crewed lunar lander alongside the existing Human Landing System award for SpaceX's Starship. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — NASA announced March 23 that it will support development of a second lander to transport astronauts to…