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Home News Spaceflight SpaceX dropped an early Christmas present for space fans everywhere this week with an amazing video recap of its first major test launch of a Starship rocket.The video, which SpaceX unveiled Wednesday (Dec. 23), shows the company's first high-altitude launch of its giant Starship SN8, a rocket…

SpaceX is set to significantly ramp up its Starship development program in the new year, in more ways than one. SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk noted on Twitter on Thursday that the company will seek to make use of both of its two launch pads at its development facility…

by Jeff Foust — December 24, 2020 The Starship SN8 prototype explodes upon landing. Credit: SpaceX webcast There was no clearer set of contrasts between how SpaceX and NASA approach launch vehicle development than the dueling tests the two performed in early December of Starship and Space Launch System, respectively.…

Main Argument Against X Holding Company is Mars Colonization Brian Wang | December 24, 2020 | Youtuber Chicken Genius Singapore argues against the X Holding Company. He is also a large Tesla shareholder. David Lee who made the suggestion is also a large Tesla shareholder. Chicken Genius thinks SpaceX, Tesla,…

Elon Considering X Holding Company for Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company and Neuralink Brian Wang | December 24, 2020 | David Lee suggested creating a holding company called X to hold all of Elon’s major companies (Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company and Neuralink). Elon responded with a tweet that this seems like…

by Sandra Erwin — December 22, 2020 Missile tracking layer concept. Credit: L3Harris Space Development Agency spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea said in a statement Dec. 22 that the agency is “expeditiously implementing its corrective action plan for the Tracking Tranche 0 solicitation.” WASHINGTON — Companies that competed earlier this year for…

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…