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A Falcon 9 rocket disappears in a blanket of clouds shortly after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center early Thursday. Credit: SpaceXLaunching through a blanket of low-hanging clouds and light mist, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered into the sky over Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday and delivered 60 more…

by Jeff Foust — March 4, 2021 A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off March 4 carrying 60 Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a new set of Starlink satellites and landed the booster March 4, two and a half weeks after the landing failed…

Updated / Thursday, 4 Mar 2021 08:11 As seen on SpaceX video, the rocket appeared to have otherwise landed properly after its flight (Pic: SpaceX YouTube) An unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded on the ground after carrying out what had seemed to be a successful flight and landing. It was the third…

SpaceX "successfully" landed a high altitude test flight of their Starship SN10 Wednesday morning and it was so incredibly done it looks like CGI. Like so much like CGI if it wasn't SpaceX you would 100% think this was faked footage. Similar to the high-altitude flight tests of Starship SN8…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's latest Starship prototype went out in a blaze of glory. The Starship SN10 spacecraft touched down successfully after a high-altitude test flight today (March 3), a major milestone for the company and its crewed Mars ambitions. But the vehicle didn't manage to hold itself together, exploding…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center before launching in May 2020 with the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission. Credit: NASA/Bill IngallsLaunch companies and U.S. Space Force range officials at Cape Canaveral are reassessing long-standing weather rules, looking at beefing up rocket defenses against…

The latest prototype of SpaceX’s  Starship launch vehicle — Starship SN10 — took off from the company’s South Texas test site and flew to an altitude of more than 30,000 feet Wednesday, then descended to a controlled vertical landing after two previous test vehicles crashed at touchdown. Minutes later, the…

Yusaku Maezawa is inviting people to join him on a Moon voyage aboard Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket in 2023 Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for eight people to join him on the first civilian lunar flight on SpaceX in 2023. Reuters If making it to the Moon has been an…

Satellite fight — Dish is trying to "expropriate the 12 GHz band" for itself, SpaceX tells FCC. Jon Brodkin - Mar 2, 2021 10:17 pm UTC SpaceX and Dish Network are fighting at the Federal Communications Commission over Dish's attempt to block a key designation that SpaceX's Starlink division needs…

When it comes to satellite launches, we typically think of SpaceX. It’s not the only company putting satellites into space for NASA and other agencies and companies. A satellite launch company called Astra based in Alameda has announced that it secured a contract to delivered six cube satellites into orbit…