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Enlarge/ A Falcon 9 rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. 3 with 3 posters participating Welcome to Edition 2.19 of the Rocket Report! Plenty of news this week from the small side of things (two new Pegasus rockets are going on the market) to the …

Swarm Technologies aims to connect smart devices around the world with a low-bandwidth but ever-present network provided by satellites and it just got approval from the FCC to do so. Apparently the agency is no longer worried that Swarm’s sandwich-sized satel…

If SpaceX gets its way, the company's planned fleet of Starlink internet satellites could soon outnumber all the spacecraft humanity has ever launched by a ratio of nearly five-to-one. That's according to Caleb Henry at Space News, who on Tuesday wrote that …

Remember when Elon Musk got high with Joe Rogan during an interview last year? It seemed like good, legal fun at the time. It turns out that toke cost US taxpayers five million dollars. NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine initiated a safety and culture review of Spac…

NASA paid SpaceX $5 million so the company could conduct a workplace-culture review after CEO Elon Musk was filmed smoked marijuana during an interview, Politico's Jacqueline Feldscher reported. The review reportedly includes education and enforcement initia…

SpaceX already has permission to deploy 12,000 internet satellites in low-Earth orbit, and launched the first batch of 60 in May 2019. Now its seeking the go-ahead to launch an additional 30,000. The effort is part of SpaceX’s ambitious $10 billion Starlink …

This image of a distant galaxy group from Arizona's Lowell Observatory is marred by diagonal lines from the trails of Starlink satellites shortly after their launch in May. Victoria Girgis/Lowell Observatory If Elon Musk's rocket company succeeds in its gra…

WASHINGTON SpaceX has asked the International Telecommunication Union to arrange spectrum for 30,000 additional Starlink satellites.  SpaceX, which is already planning the worlds largest low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation by far, filed paperwork in rece…

As most people did, I only learned of the power outage on Tuesday afternoon, while I was at work. Once my workday was over, I waited in a long line for gasoline at 6 p.m., and then went to the local market, where I bought some nonperishable foods. By the…

HAWTHORNE, Calif. -- NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Thursday that a recent Twitter statement critical of SpaceX was a signal to all the space agency's contractors about realistic development timelines. Bridenstine addressed the issue during a press …