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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…

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I walk outside my rural Saskatchewan house before dawn and look up, expecting to have my breath taken away by the sheer number of stars overhead. I’m a professional astronomer, but I still appreciate naked-eye stargazing as much as an eager child. This is the first place I’ve lived that’s…

What could potentially be one of the most profitable activities for SpaceX is to sell broadband Internet access to people around the globe courtesy of its Starlink satellite system. Currently, the system is in beta tests in the United States, and SpaceX has a launch scheduled for tonight that will…

A satellite that will allow British scientists to measure sea levels has been launched into space on a SpaceX rocket.Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich was successfully sent into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad in California. Sentinel-6, which is the size of a small 4x4 car,…