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Image: CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk enrolled his private jet in a federal privacy program but he failed to properly implement those privacy measures, according to documents obtained by Motherboard using a Freedom of Information Act request. Musk seemingly learned about this mistake—which allowed people to continue tracking the…

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s drive for humanity to become a “multi-planetary species” comes with great irony if this very activity accelerates degradation of the Earth.Last month’s “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of a SpaceX rocket rained debris and possibly other toxics on a rich estuary adjacent to the launch pad on the…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The International Space Station rolled out the welcome mat Monday for two Saudi visitors, including the kingdom’s first female astronaut. SpaceX’s chartered flight arrived at the orbiting lab less than 16 hours after blasting off from Florida. The four guests will spend just over a week there, before…

ST LOUIS – Hyperspectral startup Orbital Sidekick is acquiring imagery from its first two satellites launched in April on the SpaceX Transporter-7 rideshare flight. “We recently acquired first light, which was very exciting,” Katie Corcoran, OSK vice president of government affairs, said May 22 at the GEOINT Symposium here. “We…

Astronaut Peggy Whitson unretires for a fourth trip to space A crew of four astronauts, on a private Axiom Space trip run by SpaceX, has reached the International Space Station. Among them: mission commander Peggy Whitson, 63, and no stranger to orbit. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Sometimes it's hard for trailblazers…

CNN  —  A SpaceX rocket carrying a decorated former NASA astronaut and three paying customers took off from Florida Sunday afternoon. The crew is embarking on a weeklong stay aboard the International Space Station. Their journey, put together by the Houston-based company Axiom Space, marks the second all-private mission to…

SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking Monday. Credit: Axiom / SpaceX / NASA Four commercial space fliers who launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Axiom’s second private astronaut mission Sunday arrived at the International Space Station on a SpaceX crew capsule Monday to start…

Friday, June 16, 2023 Rayyanah Barnawi Rayyanah Barnawi, a stem cell researcher, became the first Saudi Arabian woman to travel to space on Sunday. The ticket-holding crew was launched by SpaceX and led by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for Axiom Space, the firm that planned the flight…