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NASA officials have been careful not to promise a launch date yet, saying that the schedule depends on how well Starliner performs during its flight test and how long it takes to ensure safety for its astronauts. (The losses of the space shuttles Challenger i…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: When Amazon confirmed it was planning to launch 3,236 broadband internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit, much of the media reported it as if it were a done deal -- the latest, inevitable step in t…

Amazon is ramping operations for its Kuiper project, its forthcoming high-speed satellite internet product, with a new HQ and R&D facility. Kuiper will provide internet connectivity from a small satellite constellation operating in low Earth Orbit to unde…

The satellite Kacific1 is scheduled to begin commercial operations in Q1 of 2020. Satellite operator Kacific’s first satellite Kacific1 was launched successfully into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7.10pm Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) on December 1…

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket with JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 on Monday. The launch, the 77th for the Falcon 9, saw the commercial communications satellite lofted to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). The 1-hour 28-minute launch window opened at 7:10 PM EST …

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 7, 2017. US Air Force/Timothy Kirchner SpaceX is set to launch another Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on Monday and has three ships standing by in the Atlantic to recover t…

Enlarge/ The Falcon 9 rocket launching Monday has flown twice previously, including this July launch to the International Space Station. 0 with 0 posters participating By some measures, SpaceX has had a relatively sedate 2019. After all, the company has lau…

Max Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space from TechCrunch. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. This is it the very first edition of Max Q: TechCrunch’s space newsletter. Despite approaching the end of the year, it’s been a real…

"SpaceX is about to send hemp to the ISS" is maybe the most perfectly 2019 sentence, and thankfully, it's true. Specifically, an upcoming research project will use a March 2020 SpaceX flight to send plant cultures of hemp and coffee to the International Spac…

Small satellite startup Kepler Communications is teaming up with SpaceX to make good on its deployment goals for its first nanosatellite constellation. SpaceX will carry two separate batches of nanosatellites from Kepler aboard its Falcon 9 launch vehicles. …