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News Science & Astronomy Update for 12:15 pm ET: SpaceX has successfully launched the Euclid space telescope into orbit and deployed the dark matter hunting observatory to end the launch phase. The space observatory is now headed toward its final destination 1 million miles from Earth at Lagrange point 2.…

WASHINGTON — A European spacecraft is set to launch on a mission to help astronomers resolve an “embarrassing situation” in cosmology, although the launch itself is another kind of embarrassing situation for Europe. The European Space Agency’s Euclid spacecraft is ready to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff…

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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…