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SpaceX test-fired nine Merlin engines Saturday before the company’s next launch from Cape Canaveral, clearing a key readiness test before liftoff as soon as Sunday night with 60 more Starlink internet satellites. The nine Merlin engines fired at 12:50 p.m. EST (1750 GMT) Saturday on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral…

Home News Spaceflight Editor's note: Russia has successfully launched the Progress 77 cargo ship. SpaceX has delayed the launch of its next Starlink mission to Monday, Feb. 15, due to bad weather. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Valentine's Day could be full of fireworks this year as both SpaceX and Russia's…

Animation of Interior of SpaceX Starship and Rapid Prototyping Brian Wang | February 13, 2021 | Deep Space Courier has an animation of the inside of a SpaceX Starship. SpaceX should be attempting another test launch within a week or so. SpaceX is heading to test flights every two weeks…

NASA has assigned two crew members to launch on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission – the fourth crew rotation flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.Read More

by Sandra Erwin — February 11, 2021 The Mandrake 2 experiment is a pair of small spacecraft equipped with optical crosslinks funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Space Development Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Credit: SDA Demonstrating optical crosslinks is a top priority for SDA…

Home News Spaceflight Artist's concept of the Gateway power and propulsion and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) in orbit around the moon. (Image: © NASA) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has selected SpaceX to deliver the first two segments of the moon-orbiting Gateway space station for its upcoming Artemis program,…

Starlink preorders: first come, first served — A $99 deposit today gives you a chance at service in the second half of 2021. Jon Brodkin - Feb 10, 2021 12:00 am UTC Enlarge / Screenshot from the Starlink order page, with the street address blotted out. SpaceX this week began…

NASA has announced that SpaceX will take two major parts of the Gateway lunar orbiter that will function as a pit stop for future moon missions. The Power and Propulsion Element and Habitation and Logistics Outpost — which together will form the first usable lunar space station — will go…

by Jeff Foust — February 9, 2021 After launching 143 smallsats on its Transporter-1 mission Jan. 24, SpaceX has two more dedicated rideshare launches scheduled for later this year. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX is seeing strong demand for its dedicated smallsat rideshare missions, a program that is putting pricing…

Two time-honoured traditions this time of the year are an annual list of (ig)noble events of the past year, and predictions for the new. This article is a trifle late for the former, so we’ll take a stab at the latter. To start with a safe prediction, India’s remarkable success…