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Update at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 UTC): SpaceX has announced the launch has been delayed until Sunday “to allow more time for vehicle preparations and for weather conditions to improve”. Launch time on Sunday would be at 12:12 p.m. EDT (1612 UTC). Ground teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center prepare…

An all-private astronaut team of two Americans and two Saudis, including the first Arab woman sent into orbit, splashed down safely off Florida on Tuesday night, capping an eight-day research mission aboard the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying them parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off…

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A group of investors in a class action suit have accused Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX's CEO, of adopting several manipulative techniques to influence the price of Dogecoin in order to trade at a profit at their expense, Reuters reported on Thursday. They alleged that Musk deliberately shot up the…

WASHINGTON - A SpaceX capsule carrying two Saudi astronauts has splashed down off the coast of Florida, completing the second private mission to the International Space Station. Rayyanah Barnawi, the first Saudi woman to go to space, compatriot Ali Al-Qarni, and Americans Peggy Whitson and John Shoffner waved happily to…

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A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four private astronauts is making its way down from the International Space Station (ISS) and is set to splash down in Florida on Tuesday night. The ocean touchdown will be broadcast live. Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View After spending…

TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX launched the Badr-8 TV broadcast and telecoms satellite May 27 for Saudi Arabia-based fleet operator Arabsat, equipped with a jamming-resistant optical communications payload demonstrator. The 4,500-kilogram satellite lifted off at 12:30 a.m. Eastern on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, and separated…

WASHINGTON — SpaceX will have spent $5 billion or more on its Starship vehicle and launch infrastructure by the end of this year, according to court filings and comments by the company’s chief executive. SpaceX filed a motion with federal district court in the District of Columbia May 19, asking…

Elon says SpaceX Starship with improved Raptor 3 engines should lift 300 tons in expendable mode which should mean mean 180 tons in reusable mode. The International Space Station weighs about 420 tons and took about fifty space shuttle launches to build. The Starship upper stage has more volume than…