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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…

NASA has assigned Kayla Barron to serve as a mission specialist for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station, which is targeted to launch as early as Oct. 23.Read More

Starlink’s network could eventually total more than 10,000 satellites SpaceX launched 52 more satellites for its Starlink internet network on May 15th from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. This latest launch brings the total number of Starlink satellites launched to date to more than 1,600. Starlink’s network could eventually…

A Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from pad 39A Saturday. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s fifth Falcon 9 launch in a little more than three weeks delivered 52 more Starlink internet satellites and two small hitchhiker payloads to orbit after a booming blastoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida…

by Jeff Foust — May 15, 2021 A Falcon 9 lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center May 15 carrying 52 Starlink satellites and two rideshare payloads. Credit: SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched another group of Starlink satellites May 15 on a mission that included two…