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Four private citizens are set to launch into orbit Wednesday in what will be the first mission to space without any professional astronauts on board. The all-civilian crew will ride to space aboard a rocket and capsule developed by SpaceX. The mission, dubbed Inspiration4, is just the latest milestone flight…

When 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, it didn’t feel like a stretch to dream of lounging in a space hotel, sipping a martini while watching Earth drift by. This vision got a boost in the early 1980s, when the space shuttle program heralded a future of frequent and routine trips to…

A Soyuz rocket takes off Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with 34 OneWeb satellites. Credit: Roscosmos A day after SpaceX launched 51 Starlink broadband satellites from California, a Russian Soyuz rocket fired into orbit Tuesday from a spaceport halfway around the world, shepherding 34 more satellites for the…

Jared Isaacman, commander of the Inspiration4 mission, trains in a Crew Dragon simulator at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s launch of the all-private Inspiration4 crew mission, scheduled as soon as Wednesday night, is an all-commercial affair that leaves NASA largely on the sidelines. And that’s just fine…

Home News Spaceflight Are you counting down to SpaceX's Inspiration4 launch this week? Netflix certainly is and you can join Karamo of "Queer Eye," award-winning journalist Soledad O'Brien and astronauts to celebrate the launch in a livestream event. On Wednesday night (Sept. 15), you can join Netflix's virtual party of…

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket streaks into space Monday night in this long exposure photo. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX delivered 51 more Starlink internet spacecraft to orbit Monday night with a successful Falcon 9 rocket launch from California, introducing new inter-satellite optical laser links to improve how the network relays broadband signals…

SpaceX will make history on Wednesday when, conditions permitting, the Inspiration4 mission will blast-off and become the first human spaceflight with only private citizens aboard. The launch of the Falcon 9 reusable rocket carrying the mission will take place within a five-hour launch window that is set to begin at…

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A stack of Starlink satellites before a previous launch from Florida. Credit: SpaceX A batch of 51 Starlink internet spacecraft, debuting new laser inter-satellite links, is set for liftoff Monday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on SpaceX’s first dedicated Starlink mission from the West Coast. The 51…

by Park Si-soo — September 13, 2021 KDDI President Makoto Takahash speaks in a photo taken Jan. 31, 2019. Credit: KDDI SEOUL, South Korea — SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service will be available in Japan’s remote areas starting in 2022. Japan’s major mobile provider, KDDI, announced Sept. 13 a partnership…