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Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's first orbital Starship SN20 is stacked atop its massive Super Heavy Booster 4 for the first time on Aug. 6, 2021 at the company's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas. They stood 395 feet tall, taller than NASA's Saturn V moon rocket. (Image…

In a nutshell: SpaceX has filed an application with the FCC, requesting a blanket license for its 'high performance Earth stations in motion' or ESIMs that will help expand Starlink's broadband internet to moving vehicles like cars, boats and planes. The newer dishes will also come with improved connectivity features…

Home News Entertainment "Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space" is scheduled to premiere Sept. 6, 2021. (Image credit: Netflix) The first all-civilian mission on a SpaceX Crew Dragon is getting the star treatment. Netflix plans to produce a documentary, "Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space," following the adventures of the Inspiration4 crew…

Home News Science & Astronomy Friday (Aug. 20), Space Chat will explore what's new in space, including Blue Origin's latest lawsuit, raging wildfires and spectacular skywatching.  Every Friday at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT), Space.com senior writer Chelsea Gohd explores what's new in space on Space Chat, which you can…

The Super Heavy Booster is heading to the launch pad. There will be hold down test and other tests. The SN20 Starship will be stacked on top and then it will launch. Super Heavy B4 has left the building! #SpaceX #BocaChica #Starbase #Texas #Starship pic.twitter.com/Yrpporqrvn — LabPadre (@LabPadre) August 3,…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's first true Super Heavy booster has made it to the launch site. A few days ago, technicians installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy known as Booster 4 at SpaceX's Starbase site, near the South Texas village of Boca Chica. And today (Aug. 3), the…

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service has around 90,000 users currently, according to a new disclosure, though the total is a fraction of the waitlist. Launched in mid-2019, Starlink uses a growing constellation of low Earth orbit satellites and a self-orienting dish on the ground to beam down internet connectivity, though…

The first “all-civilian” mission to space is set to blast off on a SpaceX rocket in mid-September, and the process of getting those astronauts trained and (eventually) into orbit will be documented in a new five-part Netflix series called Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission To Space. Announced Tuesday, Countdown is being billed…

A kettle of raptors — Progress on the regulatory side of things remains murky, though. Eric Berger - Aug 2, 2021 5:23 pm UTC Image of 29 Raptor rocket engines installed on a Super Heavy booster. Elon Musk/Twitter Sometimes it is difficult to write objectively about the rate at which…

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published its response to Blue Origin’s and Dynetics’ protests over the lunar lander contract granted by NASA to competitor SpaceX. The protests were filed in late April, resulting in NASA temporarily pausing the lunar lander contract given to SpaceX while the GAO resolved the…