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Home News Spaceflight A gleaming SpaceX Starship prototype launched into the sky above southern Texas Thursday (Sept. 3) in a brief uncrewed test flight of a rocket designed for eventual trips to the moon and Mars. The cylindrical Starship SN6 vehicle, which looks much like a grain silo with a rocket…

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A Thursday with 60 more Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceXSixty more satellites launched Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center to join SpaceX’s Starlink fleet, adding coverage to the broadband network as it is already “well into the first phase of testing.” The next…

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Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 58 Starlink satellites and three Planet SkySats into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on Aug. 18, 2020. (Image: © SpaceX) SpaceX has pushed the launch of its next big batch of Starlink internet satellites back two days, to…

SpaceX performed a milestone first polar orbit launch of a satellite from its East Coast launch facility at Cape Canaveral on Sunday. The Falcon 9 mission carried three payloads, including a SAOCOM-1B synthetic aperture radar satellite which was flown on behalf of the Argentine space agency, and two small satellites…

Hitting a century — Weather was iffy right up until the last few minutes before liftoff. Eric Berger - Aug 31, 2020 12:12 am UTC Plenty of clouds remained Sunday when SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched. Trevor Mahlmann This was the fourth flight of this first stage. Trevor Mahlmann The…

Home News Spaceflight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched an Earth-observation satellite for Argentina along with two small piggyback satellites today (Aug. 30). The trio blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 here at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:18 p.m. EDT (2318 GMT). A used two-stage Falcon 9 rocket…

REUTERS/Joe Skipper SpaceX may launch three rockets on Sunday, weather permitting.The aerospace company has scheduled two back-to-back Falcon 9 launches in Florida, just nine hours apart.SpaceX also reportedly intends to launch the Starship SN6 from Boca Chica, Texas, for a low-altitude test flight.Elon Musk tweeted that there was a "good…

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