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The boys are fighting. By “boys,” of course, we mean tech billionaires Elon Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, and most recently Twitter, as well as Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Meta (formerly Facebook), which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp. They are 51 and 39 years old, respectively — and we regret…

Mars Direct 3 offers a modular approach to solving the many challenges for a SpaceX Starship Mars mission. This includes the development of a new Mars lander -based on SpaceX’s Starship vehicle- to serve as the crewed ship, while keeping the Starship as a cargo ship, though a Starship-only approach…

SpaceX’s Starship sits atop its Super Heavy booster prior to the the launcher’s first test flight in April 2023. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX will need another six weeks or so to finish implementing hundreds of changes to its Super Heavy-Starship rocket and the gargantuan booster’s Texas launch pad before it will…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk's company SpaceX is offering to sell insider shares at a price that lifts its valuation to around $150 billion, according to a Bloomberg News report Friday. The company—the first private company to send astronauts into orbit, among many other firsts—is initially seeking a $750…

Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-12 mission at 11:35 a.m. EDT (1535 UTC) on June 23 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. Launch Broadcast Launch…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX successfully launched another batch of its Starlink satellites to space today. SpaceX sent 56 Starlink satellites aloft at 11:35 a.m. ET (1535 GMT) atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX performs an engine-pump chill and spin test with its Starship Ship 25 prototype at its Starbase site in South Texas. The company posted this photo on Twitter on June 22, 2023. (Image credit: SpaceX via Twitter)SpaceX is grooming its next Starship vehicle for flight. The company…

Business Vishanna Phagoo Thursday 22 June 2023 IT consultant Shivam Teelucksingh - Starlink has been talked about frequently among tech heads in recent times for two reasons: because this internet provider is backed up by CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk and engineered by his SpaceX team, and because it provides…

SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites early Thursday morning (June 22) and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 47 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday at 3:19 a.m. EDT (0719 GMT; 12:19…

If we connect SpaceX Starships for space stations and rotate them for artificial gravity then we have to make sure they are rotationally stable. A Space Station with three SpaceX Starships with one in the center for docking is not rotationally stable. A two SpaceX Starship system is rotationally stable.…