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Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying South Korea's ANASIS-II satellite stands atop a Florida launch pad ahead of a July 2020 launch. The same rocket booster will launch 60 Starlink satellites on Sept. 18, 2020. (Image: © SpaceX) SpaceX called off the launch of a new fleet…

Home News Spaceflight Update for 10:22 a.m. EDT: SpaceX has postponed the Sept. 28 launch of 60 Starlink satellites due to thick clouds over its Florida launch site. A new launch date will be announced once it has been determined. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will launch its next big batch…

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rolls out of the hangar at pad 39A in this file photo. Credit: SpaceXForecasters predict a 60 percent chance of favorable weather for launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to carry more Starlink broadband satellites into…

SpaceX Starship Hypersonic Bomber Will Give US Decades of Air Dominance Brian Wang | September 15, 2020 | The US Military Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) will have a first free-flight testing within the calendar year. They are developing critical technologies to enable an effective and affordable air-launched hypersonic cruise…

September 14, 2020 report Credit: SpaceX Elon Musk, head of SpaceX, has announced via Twitter that the company's SN8 rocket will take a test flight sometime next week. The plan is for the rocket is to soar up to 60,000 feet (18,300 meters) and then return to Earth in a…

SpaceX SN8 Starship Prototype Will Make the First High Altitude Starship Test Flight Brian Wang | September 13, 2020 | Elon Musk tweeted that the eighth SpaceX Starship prototype will have a nosecone and flaps for a first high altitude test flight. It will fly to 60,000 feet (over ten…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's SN6 Starship prototype flies on a 500-foot-high test hop on Sept. 3, 2020. (Image: © SpaceX) The next big leap for SpaceX's Mars-colonizing Starship spacecraft appears to be right around the corner.Two full-size Starship prototypes, known as SN5 and SN6, recently performed 500-foot-high (150 meters) test…

JPMorgan Chase thinks it's found the next hot market for investors:  Taking stakes in giant, pre-IPO start-ups from SpaceX to Airbnb.The investment bank is launching a new team to connect sellers and buyers in the burgeoning market for private company shares, according to Chris Berthe, JPMorgan's global co-head of cash…

Home News Spaceflight  SpaceX has unveiled a stunning new video that gives a rocket's-eye view of the launch and landing of its recent SAOCOM-1B mission, which lofted an Argentinean satellite into orbit on Aug. 30.  The star of the mission (and the incredible video) is a Falcon 9 first stage…