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Update 5:30 a.m. EDT/0930 UTC): SpaceX has delayed the Starlink Group 7-1 mission to Friday at 12:30 a.m. PDT (3:30 a.m. EDT (0430 UTC). No explanation was given. Update (10:10 p.m. EDT/0210 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the launch time of the Starlink Group 7-1 mission. The new T-0 is now 1:42…

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 will answer media questions at 2:40 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 23, about their mission aboard International Space Station prior to returning to Earth...Read More

News Spaceflight A graphic illustration showing an Intuitive Machines' lander on the surface of the moon with Earth in the background. (Image credit: Intuitive Machines) A new private moon-landing mission could launch as soon as November. Intuitive Machines says its moon lander could be ready for liftoff as soon as Nov.…

TAMPA, Fla. — AST SpaceMobile has fully funded its first five commercial satellites slated to launch with SpaceX early next year after raising $115 million in debt, the low Earth orbit direct-to-device startup said Aug. 14. The financing is on top of the $64 million the Texas-based venture recently raised…

A Falcon 9 lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on August 11, 2023, carrying 22 Starlink satellites. Photo: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral early Friday morning carrying another 22 second-generation Starlink satellites into orbit. Liftoff from…

LOGAN, Utah — SpaceX is offering a second class of rideshare missions on its Falcon 9 rocket to serve customers seeking to go to mid-inclination orbits. During a presentation at the 37th Annual Small Satellite Conference here Aug. 9, Jarrod McLachlan, director of rideshare sales at SpaceX, said the company…

The European Space Agency’s next-generation heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, definitely won’t launch until at least 2024, the agency’s director general confirmed this week.  Ariane 6 was first scheduled to launch four years ago. However, the rocket has suffered a series of delays, attributed to technical issues, COVID-19, and design changes. …

Another batch headed for low-Earth orbit. SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has successfully launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit. On Sunday, at 10:41 p.m. ET, one of the Elon Musk-owned company's…

Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) has appreciated its investment in Nigeria as a prelude to making inroad into more countries in sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, it has entered into a commercial agreement to use Starlink, SpaceX’s constellation of low earth orbit satellites, to connect station base of AMN’s mobile network…