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Three months after Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first set of what will be a broadband-providing constellation of satellites, other operators are already veering to keep their own spacecraft out of harm’s way. The European Space Agency tweeted Monday that …

elon musk‘s aerospace company spaceX has requested NASA to provide it with potential landing sites on mars for its starship super-spaceship. starship is spaceXs next-generation spaceship meant to work within both earth and lunar orbit and eventually mars. an…

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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…