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It took SpaceX several tries to catch one of its rocket nosecones during an actual mission, but it finally accomplished that feat late last month when one half of the Falcon Heavy’s nosecone safely landed aboard the company’s barge. It was a huge step towards…

SpaceX managed another first for its reusable rocketry efforts during its most recent launch when it caught part of the fairing in a giant net mounted on a boat named ‘Ms. Tree.’ The nosecone component, used to protect the Falcon Heavy’s cargo during its June…

An unmanned full-scale NASA crew capsule blasted off from a Florida launchpad on Tuesday in a successful test of the spacecraft’s abort thrusters, an astronaut safety device that will be key as the agency works to return humans to the moon by 2024. The Orion…

WASHINGTON — Three of the 60 satellites SpaceX launched last month to begin its broadband megaconstellation have lost contact with ground control teams, a SpaceX spokesperson said June 28.  Those three satellites will deorbit "passively," the spokesperson sa…

SpaceX also intends to deorbit two of the functioning satellites in order to test the process. It's still early days for Starlink, but it suggests that you won't see a host of dead satellites clogging up Earth's orbit. The concern is more one of scale. Event…

SpaceX reveals that its Starship test vehicle will target launching commercial flights as early as 2021. Earlier this year, Elon Musk shared a teaser image of the spacecraft over Twitter, followed by a video showing off the Starship Raptor engine in full forc…

SpaceX introduced the launch system as the Big Falcon Rocket or BFR until its upper stage was renamed to Starship and its rocket booster to Super Heavy. Two competing builds are currently undergoing development in Texas and in Florida, and it's possible that …

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The first commercial mission for SpaceX's Starship and Super Heavy launch system will likely take place in 2021, a company executive said June 26.  Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX's vice president of commercial sales, said the company is in ta…

Elon Musk, no stranger to outlandish pledges, just teased around-the-world flights aboard one of his rockets. The chief executive of Tesla Inc. TSLA, -0.15% and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. was tweeting about SpaceXs latest mission when he veered t…

SpaceX pulled off a long-sought rocket-reusability milestone during yesterday's epic Falcon Heavy launch. The company's net-equipped boat, Ms. Tree (formerly known as Mr. Steven), caught the powerful rocket's falling payload fairing off the Florida coast in …