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Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Nov. 24, 2020. (Image: © SpaceX) Update for 7 p.m. EST on Friday (Feb. 5): SpaceX announced on Friday afternoon that it's standing down from Sunday's (Feb. 7) planned…

Home News Spaceflight (Image credit: SpaceX) Starlink: SpaceX's megaconstellation of internet satellites Elon Musk's private spaceflight company SpaceX has been busy building the world's largest satellite internet constellation. Since May 2019, SpaceX has been launching its new Starlink internet satellites in batches of 60, with the goal of creating a…

by Jeff Foust — February 4, 2021 A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Feb. 4 carrying a set of 60 Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON — SpaceX successfully launched another set of Starlink satellites Feb. 4 in the first of back-to-back Falcon 9 launches scheduled from…

A prototype of SpaceX's Starship rocket has exploded during a landing attempt minutes after a high-altitude experimental launch from Boca Chica, Texas. The blast was a repeat of an accident that destroyed a previous test rocket. The Starship SN9 that blew up on its final descent, like the SN8 before…

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A prototype SpaceX Starship vehicle exploded on touchdown after a successful climb and descent. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX launched a prototype Starship rocket Tuesday from its Boca Chica, Texas, flight facility, successfully sending the silver booster up to an altitude of about six miles…

SpaceX SN9 Successful Flight But Crashes Again Brian Wang | February 2, 2021 | SpaceX SN9 Starship matched the SpaceX SN9 Starship flight and also matches the crash on the final attempt at landing. There still seems to be difficulty getting the header tank issues resolved. They needed two of…

Update: Starship completed a successful climb to approximately 10 kilometers altitude and descended horizontally toward the landing site. It appeared to lose control as it was in the process of flipping back to a vertical position and exploded as it bellyflopped onto the landing pad. We’ll have a full report…

Internet users are not happy about Comcast’s data caps, Elon’s Musk is up to some monkey business, and SpaceX could be launching 100 more broadband satellites.  It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Tuesday, February 2, and I’m your host Baneet Braich. Comcast’s…

by Jeff Foust — February 1, 2021 Jared Isaacman sitting inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft. He purchased a Crew Dragon flight for an all-civilian mission called Inspiration4 flying as soon as the fourth quarter of 2021. Credit: Inspiration4 WASHINGTON — An entrepreneur has purchased a SpaceX Crew Dragon mission slated…

Home News Spaceflight Shift4 Payments founder and CEO Jared Isaacman will command a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceflight in late 2021 and is donating three seats to fly with him in support of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. (Image: © SpaceX) SpaceX continues to blaze new paths to the final frontier.…