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Home News Spaceflight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a new stack of Starlink internet satellites into orbit Wednesday afternoon (May 26), before sticking a landing at sea to top off the mission. The previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at…

Home News Spaceflight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will launch its fourth Falcon 9 rocket of the month today (May 26) to carry a new fleet of Starlink broadband satellites into space and you can watch the action live online.  The private spaceflight company will launch a full stack of…

by Jason Rainbow — May 25, 2021 SpaceX has launched around 700 Starlink broadband satellites since January. Credit: SpaceX TAMPA, Fla. — Satellite operator Viasat is asking the FCC to stop SpaceX from launching more Starlink satellites as it heads to court to compel a thorough environmental review of the…

Opium’s decentralized insurance contracts will work in accordance with UMA’s oracle solution that will offer derivative financial products for hedging the risks associated with SpaceX flights. Opium, the crypto derivatives protocol, has joined hands with decentralized finance (DeFi) platform UMA to offer decentralized insurance products for SpaceX flights. Opium also…

SpaceX fired up a Falcon 9 rocket Monday on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, running the launcher through a pre-flight checkout and clearing a hurdle before liftoff later this week with the next batch of Starlink internet satellites. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket ignited its…

NASA astronaut Kayla Barron. Credit: NASA NASA has assigned astronaut Kayla Barron to join three crewmates on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft set to launch to the International Space Station in October, rounding out a four-person team after the space agency was unable to secure an agreement to add a Russian…

Home News Spaceflight An artist’s illustration of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the moon. (Image credit: Firefly Aerospace) The space launch company Firefly Aerospace announced this week that when its Blue Ghost lander launches to the moon in 2023, it will do so on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.…

Another NASA-awarded mission. Lucky those first stages are reusable, eh? SpaceX has notched up another order for a mission to the Moon, this time from Firefly Aerospace for a 2023 launch for its lunar lander, Blue Ghost. Firefly Aerospace was awarded a cool $93.3m last February to deliver a suit…

by Jeff Foust — May 20, 2021 Firefly Aerospace awarded a contract to SpaceX for the Falcon 9 launch of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, carrying NASA and commercial payloads, in 2023. Credit: Firefly Aerospace WASHINGTON — Firefly Aerospace announced May 20 it selected SpaceX to launch its first…

Posted by Jason Cartwright on May 20, 2021 The unreleased Tesla Roadster is on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum right now and a new information panel has been positioned in front of the car. @BLKMDL3 on Twitter snapped a photo of this info which confirmed the SpaceX package for…