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Posted by Jason Cartwright on February 2, 2022 A page has shown up on SpaceX’s Starlink site for Starlink Premium. This new larger design offers more than double the antenna capability of Starlink, delivering faster internet speeds and higher throughput for the highest demand users, including businesses. Starlink Premium users…

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sits horizontal at Space Launch Complex 4-East on Tuesday ahead of a mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. Credit: Brian Sandoval / Spaceflight Now A classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office is closed up in the nose cone of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for…

Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a new batch of Starlink internet satellites is seen atop Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (right) in this photo taken Jan. 31. At left, another Falcon 9 that launched an Italian satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on…

Home News Space.com 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…

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,…