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Home News Spaceflight Artist's illustration showing Intuitive Machines' lander on the surface of the moon with Earth in the background. (Image credit: Intuitive Machines) A private lander's mission to the moon's south pole has been delayed by a few more months, to the fall of 2023. That lander, built by…

Attendees of this year’s Space Symposium were understandably distracted by what was going on a thousand miles from Colorado Springs. The conference was bookended by SpaceX’s first attempt to launch Starship, scrubbed April 17 because of a frozen valve, and its liftoff on the second attempt three days later. In…

SpaceX’s launch of 51 more Starlink internet satellites Wednesday from California marked the 200th consecutive successful mission for the company’s Falcon rocket family, a record unmatched by any other space launch vehicle. The string of successes dates back to September 2016, when a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on a launch…

Elon Musk had a Twitter Space where he reviewed the Starship launch. He indicated that clearing the launch tower and reaching supersonic speed before the rocket failed was a success. The rocket launch was pretty close to what Elon expected. 27 seconds into the flight a kinetic event (NBF- probably…

Home News Tech Illustration of a constellation of satellites in orbit above Earth. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) A group of Europe's major space and telecommunications players will bid for a proposed satellite constellation that could compete with SpaceX's Starlink system.  Companies including Airbus Defense and Space, Eutelsat,…

April 21, 2023 - 8:26PM Oovvuu Fox Business reports that after postponing the launch due to a frozen valve a few days ago, Starship successfully blasted off on April 20. Then it blew up over the Gulf of Mexico. Read More

luckyluke007/Shutterstock SpaceX's Starship launch test in April ended up in a fiery explosion even though the Elon Musk-led company called it a success. In the wake of the test, debris and ashy sand-like particulate matter were found scattered across a larger area than previously anticipated, and the nearby wildlife area even…

Environmental groups and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas have filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration after SpaceX’s Starship blew up during a launch at its Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, last month. The explosion obliterated the launch pad, sending dust and debris flying for miles. Ash scatted over areas…

The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023.  Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Elon Musk expects SpaceX to spend about $2 billion on its Starship rocket development this year, as the company pushes…

WASHINGTON — SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said the first integrated test flight of his company’s Starship vehicle met his expectations despite a cascading series of engine failures and other malfunctions that eventually caused the rocket to lose control. Musk, speaking in a subscriber-only chat April 29 on Twitter, the…