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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in less than 10 minutes Thursday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 7,300 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 1:29 p.m. EDT (1729 GMT) Thursday from pad…

The US isn’t keeping up with the proliferation of new spacecraft in low-earth orbit, and the potential consequences are serious. Megaconstellations, like those developed by SpaceX and OneWeb, will add tens of thousands of new satellites to the environment around the planet. University of Southampton professor Hugh Lewis used data…

A Falcon 9 rocket is test-fired early Thursday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now SpaceX ignited a Falcon 9 rocket for a 10-second test-firing early Thursday on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, clearing a pre-flight check before a mission set to blast off…

by Jeff Foust — June 3, 2021 Axiom Space's agreement with SpaceX covers the Ax-2, 3 and 4 missions, which will follow the Ax-1 mission launching to the International Space Station on a Crew Dragon spacecraft in early 2022. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — Axiom Space has signed a contract with…

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A brand new Falcon 9 rocket rolls out to pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in preparation for liftoff on SpaceX’s 22nd resupply mission to the International Space Station. Credit: SpaceX In what’s become a rarity for SpaceX and its workhorse fleet of “flight-proven” hardware, a brand new Falcon 9…

SpaceX is by far the largest and most successful private spaceflight company ever, and it’s been able to carve its place in the history books thanks to a lot of out-of-the-box thinking. The company pioneered reusable rocket boosters and successfully developed the Falcon 9, which has a ridiculously shiny record…

Two new solar array wings for the International Space Station are rolled up inside the trunk of SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon capsule for launch Thursday. Credit: SpaceX Two new solar array wings for the International Space Station are packed inside the trunk of a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule for launch Thursday…

For months, NASA had strongly suggested that it would select two companies for the next phase of its Human Landing System (HLS) program. Just as with the commercial cargo and crew programs, agency officials said, having two companies develop and demonstrate lunar landers would provide redundancy and ensure NASA was…

Elon Musk said SpaceX's offshore launch platform called Deimos is under construction. In a tweet Sunday, he said the platform could be ready for launch operations next year. The platform is set to be used for the SpaceX Starship rockets. See more stories on Insider's business page. Elon Musk said…