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Artist’s concept of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Credit: ULAUnited Launch Alliance and SpaceX beat out Northrop Grumman and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for billions of dollars in U.S. military rocket contracts, and will share the load in launching the Pentagon’s highest-priority national security space missions through 2027, officials announced…

A Falcon 9 rocket takes off from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 1:12 a.m. EDT (0512 GMT) Friday. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight NowWith a Falcon 9 rocket launch Friday, SpaceX added 57 more satellites to the Starlink broadband fleet and deployed a pair of piggyback commercial…

Home News Spaceflight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched dozens of Starlink internet satellites and two small Earth-imaging satellites into orbit Friday (Aug. 7) in the second of what's expected to be a series of Starlink rideshare missions.A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carrying 57 SpaceX Starlink satellites, along with…

If you’ve been following the development of Starship prototypes, you’d be happy to know that the project achieved another major milestone this week. SpaceX is one step closer to reaching Mars. Or rather, 150 metres closer to Mars.SpaceX’s Starship — What you need to knowFirst successful hopThis week, SpaceX successfully…

In another incredible achievement for Elon Musk, SpaceX successfully "hopped" their Starship SN5 150 m (490 ft) yesterday. This comes after the successful hop of their Starhopper back in September, which was retired after that launch to pave the way for this guy. The SN5 is part of SpaceX's reusable…

After several delays and complications, SpaceX has successfully performed the first flight tests of the Starship SN5 prototype from SpaceX’s Boca Chica test site in Texas, marking a step forward in Journey to send humans to Mars. During testing, the company’s first full-scale prototype achieved an initial flight of around…

Angara 5 taking a dive — "Angara has no chance of successful competition." Eric Berger - Jun 29, 2020 4:57 pm UTC Enlarge / Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin visits the construction site for the launch pad for the rocket boosters of the Angara family, at the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Yegor AleyevTASS…

Orbiting over our heads right now are two human beings who flew to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle on top of a Falcon 9. The majority of coverage focused on the years since human spaceflight last launched from Florida, but at Ars Technica reminds us…

SpaceX vs. Space Shuttle: NASA's Falcon 9 Astronauts Compare the Differences (spaceflightnow.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:34PM from the riding-on-a-rocket dept. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken flew to the International Space Station on SpaceX's Crew Dragon. But they're also uniquely qualified to describe what…

By Sasha Lekach2020-06-11 12:00:00 UTC Boeing’s Starliner craft is headed to space, but first its astronauts are training in virtual reality.  The American aerospace company is part of the NASA commercial crew program — the same one that sent SpaceX's Crew Dragon to the International Space Station with two NASA…