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This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. SpaceX, Amazon, OneWeb, and other companies plan to collectively launch as many as 57,000 new satellites before the end of 2030.A new animation by aerospace data firm Analytical Graphics, Inc. shows the year-by-year rollout…

Rocket Lab’s first mission of the year, and 11th commercial flight overall, is planned to take off this afternoon from New Zealand and bring a payload from the National Reconnaissance Office to orbit. You can watch the launch, “Birds of a Feather,” right here…

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley (left) and Bob Behnken (right) are slated to be the first people SpaceX launches into orbit. SpaceX NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will be the first to fly SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship — and probably the first people in history to fly any commercial…

Elon Musk said last night that SpaceX plans to send NASA astronauts to space between April and June. The mission, dubbed as Demo-2, will see the crew rocket up to the International Space Station for several days. SpaceX just completed a successful uncrewed t…

On Sunday, one of SpaceX's 230-foot-tall Falcon 9 rockets broke apart and exploded into a fireball about 84 seconds after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On any other day, such a catastrophe might be a tragedy. But during a post-launch press briefing…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX will try again on Sunday to destroy one of its own rockets in a test of a crucial emergency abort system, a day after bad weather forced the company to delay its final milestone test before flying NASA ast…

CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to destroy one of its own rockets on Saturday to test a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, the company’s final milestone test before flying NASA astronauts from U.S. soi…

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship is launching again this weekend — perhaps for its final flight before the capsule carries a crew of astronauts.  On Saturday morning, Elon Musk's space company plans to conduct a crucial safety demonstration called an in-flight…

Space launch startup Orbex has secured a customer for its forthcoming Prime space launch vehicle: TriSept, a provider of launch integration services for both commercial and government customers. TriSept has booked the full capacity of a rideshare mission aboa…

With the 60 satellites set for launch, SpaceX will have delivered 180 signal relay stations to orbit for the companys Starlink Internet network. SpaceX test-fired a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday at Cape Canaveral, two days before a scheduled launch with 60 Sta…