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A SpaceX Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft is set to depart the International Space Station Friday, Jan. 21...Read More

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Transporter 3 small satellite rideshare mission. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography SpaceX launched 105 small satellites from Cape Canaveral on the company’s third Transporter rideshare mission Thursday, deploying…

by Jeff Foust — January 13, 2022 A Falcon 9 lifts off Jan. 14 from Cape Canaveral on the Transporter-3 rideshare mission. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust Updated Jan. 14 to correct number of Kepler satellites on the launch. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 placed more than 100 smallsats…

A Falcon 9 rocket stands vertical on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for liftoff on SpaceX’s Transporter 3 rideshare mission. Credit: SpaceX With its small satellite launch business booming, SpaceX is set to double its cadence of dedicated rideshare missions this year, beginning with the liftoff of…

SpaceX notified the FCC SpaceX that Starship could be ready to launch Starlink Gen2 System satellites as early as March, 2022. The FCC notification is that SpaceX will focus on the configuration of 12000 generation 1 satellites that will work best with 30,000 generation 2 satellite. Previously, SpaceX was hedging…

Home References Tech (Image credit: SpaceX) Starlink is the name of a satellite network developed by the private spaceflight company SpaceX to provide low-cost internet to remote locations. SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 42,000 satellites in this so-called megaconstellation.  The size and scale of the project flusters…

SpaceX conducted its first rocket launch of 2022 on Thursday, sending its first batch of Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit since December 18. The mission got underway shortly before 5 p.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. As usual, the private space company, led by billionaire entrepreneur…

by Jeff Foust — January 6, 2022 A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off Jan. 6 carrying 49 Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON — After setting a record for launch activity in 2021, SpaceX started 2022 with the Falcon 9 launch of a set of Starlink satellites Jan. 6. The…

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Home News Spaceflight Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping juggling with apples aboard the Tianhe space station. (Image credit: CNSA) China moved its Tianhe space station module twice this year to avoid SpaceX Starlink internet satellites, and the nation apparently isn't too happy about it. Chinese officials filed a note with the…