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Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stood atop historic launch pad 39A Saturday afternoon as teams counted down to liftoff with 52 more Starlink internet satellites and two hitchhiker payloads. Weather permitting, the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher was set for liftoff at 6:54 p.m. EDT (2254 GMT) on…

Tonight, SpaceX will continue to expand its constellation of Starlink satellites to provide global broadband internet. The company will be launching a rocket from Florida, and the launch will be streamed live so you can watch along from home. What to expect from the Starlink launch A Falcon 9 rocket…

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Home News Spaceflight Update for 7:57 pm ET: SpaceX has successfully launched its Starlink 27 mission to deliver 52 Starlink internet satellites and two rideshare payloads for customers into orbit. You can read our wrap here for the full story, launch video and photos. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will…

Artist’s concept of a Capella synthetic aperture radar satellite. Credit: Capella Space An innovative commercial Capella radar observation spacecraft with night vision and a small payload from the California-based smallsat manufacturer Tyvak are set to ride into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast Saturday with 52 more Starlink internet satellites on…

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Google Cloud and space tech company SpaceX have partnered to deliver data, cloud services, and applications to customers at the network edge using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network. According to a May 13 news release from Google Cloud, it will install SpaceX ground stations in Google’s data centres to provide private…

SpaceX will launch four orbital tourists before Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin launch their first sub-orbital tourists. Inspiration4 is a planned SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to low Earth orbit operated by SpaceX on behalf of Jared Isaacman. The flight is scheduled to launch on 15 September 2021. The mission is…

by Jeff Foust — May 14, 2021 According to a SpaceX application to the FCC, the first orbital test flight of the Starship/Super Heavy system will involve a booster landing in the Gulf of Mexico and a Starship landing in the ocean near Hawaii, to mitigate the risk of a…

SpaceX has filed its first Super Heavy Starship orbital flight plan. The Super Heavy Booster will return and land in Texas. The Starship will go to orbit and then land in Hawaii (Kauai) about 90 minutes after taking off. The Starship Orbital test flight will originate from Starbase, TX. The…