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Rocket Lab has been increasing the altitude of its missions in recent months, but now it wants to venture much, much farther. The private spaceflight firm now intends to help launch missions to higher Earth orbits, lunar orbit and even Lagrange points. It'll …

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Elon Musk regularly switches to a new cell phone and sometimes destroys his old phone for security reasons, according to an October 14 legal filing. The filing includes a signed statement from a SpaceX information-technology employee dated October 1.  Read …

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir made history on Friday, embarking upon the first ever all-female spacewalk. Finally. Residents of the International Space Station, the pair ventured outside the ISS to replace a power controller that failed dur…

Enlarge/ A Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. 3 with 3 posters participating Welcome to Edition 2.19 of the Rocket Report! Plenty of news this week from the small side of things (two new Pegasus rockets are going on the market) to the …

Swarm Technologies aims to connect smart devices around the world with a low-bandwidth but ever-present network provided by satellites and it just got approval from the FCC to do so. Apparently the agency is no longer worried that Swarm’s sandwich-sized satel…

If SpaceX gets its way, the company's planned fleet of Starlink internet satellites could soon outnumber all the spacecraft humanity has ever launched by a ratio of nearly five-to-one. That's according to Caleb Henry at Space News, who on Tuesday wrote that …

Remember when Elon Musk got high with Joe Rogan during an interview last year? It seemed like good, legal fun at the time. It turns out that toke cost US taxpayers five million dollars. NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine initiated a safety and culture review of Spac…

NASA paid SpaceX $5 million so the company could conduct a workplace-culture review after CEO Elon Musk was filmed smoked marijuana during an interview, Politico's Jacqueline Feldscher reported. The review reportedly includes education and enforcement initia…

SpaceX already has permission to deploy 12,000 internet satellites in low-Earth orbit, and launched the first batch of 60 in May 2019. Now its seeking the go-ahead to launch an additional 30,000. The effort is part of SpaceX’s ambitious $10 billion Starlink …