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WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Dorian advances on a course likely to slam the Florida peninsula within days, U.S. space agencies and aerospace companies are sheltering millions of dollars in hardware and assets along the Space Coast. Dorian, expected to strengthe…

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX continues to push boundaries for space travel as its Dragon capsule has set a new record for completing three trips to the International Space Station. The Dragon is a freight capsule that delivers necessary cargo like experiment materials…

SpaceX’s Starhopper has had an interesting week. It was initially supposed to take off from the company’s Texas launch facility on Monday evening, performing what is expected to be the last of its test flights before the company begins testing larger versions…

A mysterious spacecraft has been orbiting the Earth for the past 720 days, and only the US Air Force knows why. This is the fifth mission of the X-37B space plane, an uncrewed and solar-powered military drone. The Orbital Test Vehicle 5 (OTV-5) mission launc…

SpaceX has just successfully passed its final test for its Starhopper test prototype. Launched at Boca Chica, Texas, the Starhopper flew to an altitude of 500 feet (150 meters), where it stayed hovering for almost a minute. Equipped with a single new gen Sp…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption The squat Starhopper flew with one Raptor engine The American rocket company SpaceX conducted a successful flight of its "Starhopper" testbed on Tuesday. The vehicle lifted 150m into the air, moved sideways and then gen…

Tuesday evening, from its launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX conducted its second ever free flight of Starhopper, the test prototype for its future Starship vehicle. Starhopper hopped about 490 feet (149 meters) into the airover eight times higher t…

In March 2010, back before it ever flew, the X-37B posed for this picture on a runway in Titusville, Florida. Boeing We know what it looks like: a cute little space shuttle. We know where it is: in orbit around Earth. We know who sent it there: the US Air…

The U.S. Air Forces Boeing X-37B spaceplane broke a record yesterday for the most amount of time in orbit around the Earth. But we still dont know when the uncrewed plane is going to land or even what its doing up there. All of the details about the X-37B mis…