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Home News CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched a clandestine U.S. spy  satellite into space for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)  Saturday (Dec. 19) , marking its 26th rocket of the year.The mysterious payload, called NROL-108, lifted off from Pad 39A here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at  9 a.m.…

A Falcon 9 rocket takes off from pad 39A with the NROL-108 mission. Credit: SpaceXSpaceX hurled a secret cargo into space for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency Saturday, the 30th rocket launch to fly into Earth orbit from pads on Florida’s Space Coast in 2020. The Falcon 9 flight…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 2 a.m. EST (0700 GMT) with delay to Saturday. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday after an aborted countdown. Credit: SpaceXSpaceX scrubbed a Falcon 9 launch attempt Thursday to evaluate a “slightly high” pressure reading in the rocket’s…

FRANK JORDANS, Associated PressDec. 17, 2020Updated: Dec. 17, 2020 11:21 a.m.FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 19, 2016 file photo Josef Aschbacher attends a press conference in Rome, Italy. The European Space Agency said Thursday that Josef Aschbacher, an Austrian scientist who leads its Earth observation program, has been appointed as the…

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SpaceX Raising Funds at $92 Billion at Double Old Price Will Make Elon Richest in the World Brian Wang | December 15, 2020 | SpaceX is in talks with investors to raise another round of funding and seeks to double its valuation to as much as $92 billion. SpaceX is…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket counts down to a launch attempt Friday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: SpaceXSpaceX called off the planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket Friday at Cape Canaveral, halting the countdown less than a minute before liftoff to allow time to perform additional ground…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX called off the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a new Sirius XM satellite on Friday (Dec. 11), halting the flight at the last minute for extra system checks. The Falcon 9 rocket was 30 seconds away from lifting off at 12:55 p.m. EST (1755 GMT)…

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SpaceX today pulled off the first ever high-altitude (well, high-ish) flight of Starship, the rocket the company hopes will one day take humans to the moon and Mars. Although the spacecraft failed to make a safe landing—in fact, it exploded on impact—it’s the highest any Starship prototype has flown. Still…