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SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket with JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 on Monday. The launch, the 77th for the Falcon 9, saw the commercial communications satellite lofted to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). The 1-hour 28-minute launch window opened at 7:10 PM EST …

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 7, 2017. US Air Force/Timothy Kirchner SpaceX is set to launch another Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on Monday and has three ships standing by in the Atlantic to recover t…

Enlarge/ The Falcon 9 rocket launching Monday has flown twice previously, including this July launch to the International Space Station. 0 with 0 posters participating By some measures, SpaceX has had a relatively sedate 2019. After all, the company has lau…

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"SpaceX is about to send hemp to the ISS" is maybe the most perfectly 2019 sentence, and thankfully, it's true. Specifically, an upcoming research project will use a March 2020 SpaceX flight to send plant cultures of hemp and coffee to the International Spac…

Small satellite startup Kepler Communications is teaming up with SpaceX to make good on its deployment goals for its first nanosatellite constellation. SpaceX will carry two separate batches of nanosatellites from Kepler aboard its Falcon 9 launch vehicles. …

Special delivery made to International Space Station - 10News WTSP

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. -- SpaceX made an early holiday delivery to the International Space Station on Sunday, dropping off super muscular "mighty mice," pest-killing worms and a smart, empathetic robot. The station commander, Italy's Luca Parmitano, used a l…

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jurors were expected to begin deliberating in Los Angeles on Friday in the lawsuit brought against Elon Musk by a British cave explorer who says the Tesla (TSLA.O) founder defamed him with tweets suggesting he is a pedophile. The thr…

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