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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…

Image caption Ketty Maisonrouge has tried on her spacesuit and is ready for take off Ketty Maisonrouge has waited 15 years for a trip that she knows will be out of this world. The 61-year-old business school professor signed up back in 2005 for the promis…

Today, January 6th, SpaceX is due to launch one of its Falcon 9 rockets into a Low Earth orbit carrying 60 Starlink satellites. The rocket was successfully test fired on January 4th. SpaceX will have a floating barge down range in the Atlantic Ocean ready to…

SpaceX has successfully fired up a Falcon 9 rocket for the first time in 2020, setting the company up for the first of potentially dozens of Starlink launches over the next 12 months. On the afternoon of January 4th, SpaceX loaded Falcon 9 with hundreds of t…

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From next week, a campaign to launch thousands of new satellites will begin in earnest, offering high-speed internet access from space. Astronomers are finding that satellites are so dazzling they are competing with their study of the stars. Photo: AFP But …

Residents in northern Montana reported a string of strange lights dotting the sky. What looked like UFOs from an alien invasion has turned out to be another consequence of SpaceXs Starlink satellite constellation. SpaceX launched 60 satellites into orbit bac…