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by Jeff Foust — October 6, 2020 A Falcon 9 carrying 60 Starlink satellites lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Oct. 6. Credit: SpaceX webcast WASHINGTON — As SpaceX launches a new batch of Starlink satellites, the company is quietly deorbiting the original set of satellites less…

FILE PHOTO: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken lifts off during NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., May 30, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Skipper(Reuters) - Elon Musk’s SpaceX…

File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Credit: SpaceXThe National Reconnaissance Office has confirmed it will launch a payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral later this month, a mission on SpaceX’s schedule that was not publicly…

by Sandra Erwin — October 5, 2020 SpaceX is developing a new satellite bus for the Space Development Agency based on the Starlink design. Credit: SpaceX SDA Director Derek Tournear said SpaceX “came in with an extremely credible proposal” that leverages the Starlink assembly line WASHINGTON — The Space Development…

Double Scrub — Expect Musk to remind his launch team of his expectations. Eric Berger - Oct 3, 2020 6:59 pm UTC A Falcon 9 rocket got to within 2 seconds of launching Friday night in Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket is seen ready to go on Friday ahead of…

A Falcon 9 rocket aborted its launch just 2 seconds prior to liftoff Friday night. Credit: SpaceXFor the fourth time this week, a rocket launch from Cape Canaveral was stopped with seconds remaining in the countdown Friday night, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket automatically aborted its liftoff with a…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX aborted the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying an upgraded Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) for the U.S. Space Force on Friday (Oct. 2).Launch controllers called off the launch about two seconds before the company's Falcon 9 rocket was supposed to lift off from Space Launch…

Update October 2nd, 10:00PM ET: Just 2 seconds before liftoff, SpaceX stopped the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, without giving a clear indication of what went wrong. The next opportunity for SpaceX to fly is Saturday evening, though a launch date hasn’t been confirmed yet. Original Story: Late Friday…

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File photo of a previously-flown Falcon 9 booster. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight NowThe U.S. Space Force says it will launch two GPS navigation satellites on reused Falcon 9 boosters next year through a restructured contract with SpaceX that saved taxpayers $52 million, the first time the military has agreed to fly…