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Should Wednesday’s launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center proceed as planned, it’s gonna be carrying a buttload of science with it. The rocket will be carrying not one, not two, but three important payloads, including a satellite set to orbit the Moon, a privately operated…

SpaceX has confirmed that it’s targeting Thursday, March 6, for the eighth test of the Starship, the most powerful rocket ever to fly. Read on for details on how to watch a livestream of the upcoming flight. The Starship — comprising the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the upper-stage Starship…

SpaceX has finished its investigation into what went wrong on the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket, which ended with a dramatic explosion. Flight 7 launched on Jan. 16, sending Starship aloft from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas. The mission was partially successful; SpaceX caught Starship's giant first-stage…

SpaceX's Starship megarocket launches during the vehicle's seventh test flight on Jan. 16, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly again this week, if all goes according to plan. The company is planning to launch Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, for the eighth time…

SpaceX launched another set of its Starlink internet satellites from southern California on Saturday evening (Feb 22). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station at 8:38 p.m. EST (5:38 p.m. local time or 0138 GMT Feb. 23). As to plan, the Falcon…

A Falcon 9 lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Feb. 1. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — SpaceX said that a Falcon 9 upper stage that reentered over Europe earlier this week suffered a propellant leak that prevented it from doing a controlled reentry. The upper stage was placed…

Updated at 10:57 p.m. EST, Feb 26: SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) to begin the Starlink 12-13 mission. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Following two days of scrubbed attempts, SpaceX managed to send 21…

Home » Space » February 26 SpaceX Starship Flight 8 and Flight 9 Starship Catch from Orbital Mission SpaceX is targeting 5PM (Texas) February 26 2025 for SpaceX Starship flight 8. If things go right, SpaceX has already submitted an FCC filing for SpaceX flight 9. Flight 9 will go…

Untangling Elon Musk's Dating History & the 13 Kids it Produced Turns out Elon Musk 's months-long romance with Amber Heard cut pretty deep. Smitten from the moment he saw the 38-year-old actress in 2013's Machete Kills, the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO, 53, invited her to SpaceX's L.A. headquarters the next…

NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite…