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by Jeff Foust — January 31, 2022 A Falcon 9 lifts off from Cape Canaveral Jan. 31 carrying the CSG-2 radar mapping satellite. Credit: SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 placed an Italian radar mapping satellite into orbit Jan. 31 after four days of delays caused by range…

National The crash is expected on March 4 at 7:25 a.m. In an undated image provided by Peter Birtwhistle, a composite of 30 images showing the Falcon 9 booster, traveling from lower right to upper left, on Jan. 20, 2022. The four-ton upper stage of a SpaceX rocket launched seven…

Home News Spaceflight Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets stand ready to launch different missions from their Florida launch pads. At right is a Falcon 9 carrying 49 Starlink internet satellites atop NASA's Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. At left, a different Falcon 9 with the Italian Cosmo-SkyMed Second…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX was forced to abort a planned rocket launch this weekend after a cruise ship sailed too close to the mission. Less than a minute before the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to take off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday, an…

A Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Sunday evening before a launch attempt with an Italian COSMO-SkyMed radar imaging satellite. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now A cruise ship that ventured under the planned flight path of a Falcon 9 rocket near Cape…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — He told his family and a few friends. He dropped hints to a couple of colleagues. So hardly anyone knew that the airline pilot could have — should have — been on board when SpaceX launched its first tourists into orbit last year. Meet Kyle Hippchen,…

Paramount PIctures More details have emerged about the Tom Cruise-led untitled film to be shot in outer space. In 2020 came word Cruise, director Doug Liman and writer Christopher McQuarrie were working on a $200 million project to be shot in space with the help of Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Variety…

Home News Spaceflight A visualization of a "rocket cargo" vehicle launch from the Air Force Research Laboratory.  (Image credit: Air Force Research Laboratory)SpaceX has won a contract, worth over $102 million, to transport military supplies and humanitarian aid around the world using a rocket. The U.S. Air Force awarded SpaceX…

Home News Spaceflight The universe finally stopped conspiring against the launch of an Italian Earth-observation satellite.  A two-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 (CSG-2) satellite lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Monday (Jan. 31) at 6:11 p.m. EST (2311 GMT). SpaceX…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The mission will launch a radar remote sensing satellite for Italy’s COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation constellation. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live SpaceX Webcast After bad weather and an…