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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…

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Starship prototype SN10 comes in for a landing. SpaceX It'll be at least two more months before Elon Musk's Starship gets the green light to blast off for space.  The Federal Aviation Administration said this week that it'll need the additional time to work through a key environmental review before…

extremely enormous — SpaceX founder points out that space is "extremely enormous," satellites "very tiny." Richard Waters, Financial Times - Dec 29, 2021 9:49 pm UTC Enlarge / A SpaceX rocket ready for launch. Trevor Mahlmann Elon Musk has hit back at criticism that his company’s Starlink satellites are hogging…

Loading... Home Money Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 05:16 AM MYT A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on the launch pad as it is prepared to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, October 28, 2021. ― Reuters pic LOS…

Elon Musk says that future Starships – or at least certain Starship variants – are being upgraded with 50% more Raptor engines and stretched propellant tanks. This will increase engines from 6 to 9. SpaceX will also increase fuel to about 300 tons. This will enable a larger Starship and…

Others question the purpose of space tourism too. “These are technological achievements, there’s no doubt about that,” says Kathryn Denning, an anthropologist and space ethics researcher at York University in Toronto. But, she suggests, “their most significant achievement is the domination of the airwaves and television coverage.” So far, tickets…