SpaceX

Elon Musk, already one of the world’s richest people, can add another $32.4 billion worth of Tesla Inc. shares to his piggy bank. The technology entrepreneur is now vested in stock options valued at that amount after the electric-car maker hit roughly half of the targets laid out by the…

On the morning of Feb. 22, 2019, my two sons and I fixed our gazes on the horizon of the Mojave Desert, waiting for a flame to appear in the distant sky: Virgin Galactic’s spaceship was about to launch. Rockets traditionally launch vertically, from the ground. Virgin Galactic does it…

World 2 May, 2021 07:36 AM4 minutes to read The SpaceX Dragon capsule parachutes into the Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Panhandle early Sunday. Photo / AP SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first US crew splashdown in darkness since the…

SpaceX founder Elon Musk arrives ahead of the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule, before launch of their NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. on April 23, 2021. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said…

SpaceX victory at FCC — Rival satellite companies opposed change that cuts altitude in half, to 540 km. Jon Brodkin - Apr 27, 2021 8:05 pm UTC Enlarge / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish. SpaceX today was granted permission to use a lower orbit for Starlink satellites, as regulators…

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is now targeting a return to Earth at 11:36 a.m. EDT Saturday, May 1, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.Read More

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft during a port relocation maneuver outside the International Space Station on April 5. Credit: NASA High winds predicted off the coast of Florida this week will keep SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft and its four-person crew in orbit until Saturday, three days after their previously…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX's four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered back into their spacesuits because of a potential collision with orbiting junk. It turns out there was no object and no threat, the U.S. Space Command acknowledged Monday. The false alarm…

From left, NASA's Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins, and Japan's Soichi Noguchi hold a news conference aboard the International Space Station on Monday, April 26, 2021. They are winding up a six-month mission, after their replacements arrived Saturday on their own SpaceX capsule. (NASA via AP) The astronauts…

This Friday, April 30, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) carrying four astronauts on their journey home to Earth. This will mark the completion of Crew-1, the first crewed mission for the Crew Dragon, and NASA will be airing the departure from the…