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SpaceX is certifying its Falcon 9 booster for 20 reuses. Several SpaceX Falcon 9 Boosters have been reused dozens of times each and one has been used 15 times. SpaceX plans to launch up to 100 missions in 2023, which is nearly double what it launched in 2022. Reusability will…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX rolled its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule out to the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on May 18, 2023, ahead of the planned May 21 launch of the Ax-2 private astronaut mission.  (Image credit: SpaceX via Twitter)The hardware for SpaceX's next private astronaut…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX rolls the Ship 25 Starship prototype out to a suborbital pad at its Starbase facility in South Texas in the early-morning hours of May 18, 2023, ahead of a planned static fire test. (Image credit: SpaceX via Twitter)SpaceX is gearing up for another test of its…

The second private crew to the International Space Station (ISS) is getting ready to strap into a SpaceX Dragon capsule, venturing to low Earth orbit as part of Axiom Space’s follow-up mission to the orbiting lab. Astronomers Could Soon Get Warnings When SpaceX Satellites Threaten Their View Axiom Mission 2,…

SpaceX is completing a Texas Starlink factory that is 521,000 square feet and cost $43,000,000. The SpaceX factory is designed for high volume manufacturing. It is to make millions of consumer facing devices. The Starlink Kit and include the antenna (or dish) that connects to the satellites, Wi-Fi routers and…

WASHINGTON — SpaceX and Axiom Space will have only two opportunities this month to launch a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station before having to wait potentially several months before getting another shot. At a May 15 briefing, officials from the two companies as well as NASA announced…

The SpaceX Raptor 3 was recently test fired and reached 18% more thrust than a Raptor 2. The Raptor 2 had 25% more thrust than the Raptor 1 and it was 20% lighter. Everyday Astronaut reviewed the work that SpaceX has been doing to reduce unneeded parts and reduce the…

Watch a replay of our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 5-9 mission at 1:03 a.m. EDT (0503 UTC) on May 14 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live Fifty-six…

SpaceX Raptor 3 is an improved and more powerful rocket enigine. It has reached 350 bar of pressure and 269 tons of thrust. Raptor 2 engines were achieving 230 tf (510,000 lbf) of thrust consistently by February 2022, although SpaceX expects to be able to tune engine parameters and design…

Space The huge Starship rocket made its first launch attempt on 20 April, but blew up shortly after – while the mission wasn’t a complete failure, it might be a while before we see it try to get to space again By Leah Crane Starship is the biggest rocket ever…