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JAKARTA, Indonesia — The first commercial mission for SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy launch system will likely take place in 2021, a company executive said June 26.  Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX's vice president of commercial sales, said the company is in ta…

Elon Musk, no stranger to outlandish pledges, just teased around-the-world flights aboard one of his rockets. The chief executive of Tesla Inc. TSLA, -0.15% and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. was tweeting about SpaceXs latest mission when he veered t…

SpaceX pulled off a long-sought rocket-reusability milestone during yesterday's epic Falcon Heavy launch. The company's net-equipped boat, Ms. Tree (formerly known as Mr. Steven), caught the powerful rocket's falling payload fairing off the Florida coast in …

An Earth-observation satellite spotted something leaving our planet early this morning (June 25). The GOES-East weather satellite, which orbits at an altitude of 22,300 miles (35,900 kilometers), captured several photos of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket streak…

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy turned night into day this morning as the monster rocket successfully hauled itself from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. The 27 Merlin engines illuminated the night sky in a manner to bring a nostalgic tear to the eye of thos…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX marked a milestone today as the company's Falcon Heavy megarocket successfully lofted two dozen satellites into orbit. The rocket blasted off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) here at 2:30 a.m. EDT on June 25 (06…

LONGUEUIL, Que. David Saint-Jacques is set to return to Earth on Monday after more than six months aboard the International Space Station. The Canadian astronaut will join NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko aboard a Soyuz capsul…

SpaceX may be yet to launch any living human astronauts into space, but the remains of over 150 people are going to get the ride of their afterlives on Monday night thanks to the companys Falcon Heavy rocket. Among the various satellites and instruments being…

There’s a space race happening right now. It’s not between the United States and Russia, or any nations at all, for that matter, but it’s definitely happening. It’s a race between SpaceX and Boeing to be the first company to deliver a crew-capable spacecraft …

CAPE CANAVERAL SpaceX is gearing up for the next flight of the company's megarocket, the Falcon Heavy. Essentially three Falcon 9 boosters strapped together, the behemoth will lift off from the historic Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Monday (June…