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EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch a replay of our live coverage of the Falcon 9 launch with the O3b mPOWER 1 and 2 satellites. SFN Live SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday from Cape Canaveral on a mission to boost two high-power broadband satellites for SES’s O3b mPOWER network toward a unique…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography, or SWOT, satellite for NASA and the French space agency CNES. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page.…

Home News Spaceflight Update for 8:30 am ET: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite into orbit to study Earth's oceans and water like never before. See launch and rocket landing video, and read our full launch wrap story. SpaceX will launch…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX continues to gear up for the first-ever orbital test flight of its Starship Mars rocket. SpaceX performed another "static fire" test today (Dec. 15) at its South Texas facility, lighting up Ship 24, a prototype of Starship's 165-foot-tall (50 meters) upper-stage spacecraft. One of Ship 24's…

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography, or SWOT, satellite during solar array deployment testing at Thales Alenia Space’s factory in Cannes, France. Credit: Thales Alenia Space A French-built satellite equipped with an innovative U.S.-made radar instrument is buttoned up for blastoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Friday from California,…

The final (commercial) frontier: A new space infrastructure startup called "ThinkOrbital" wants to boldly go where no manufacturing corporation has gone before — low-Earth orbit. It aims to construct a space station for manufacturing various commercial products. It says the platform can also recycle space junk. Former SpaceX exec Lee…

Thunderfoot, Phil Mason, is a popular youtuber despite putting out wrong information. He likes to try to “bust” Elon Musk for Tesla, Boring Company and SpaceX. This is obviously because Elon Musk is the most successful businessman in the world who has the largest following on Twitter. Attack videos against…

In this handout photo courtesy of Polaris Program taken on February 11, 2022 and obtained on February 14, 2022 shows the SpaceX Starship rocket. AFP Ever wondered how big is SpaceX Starship which is designed to be the most powerful launch vehicle ever built? Well, some research will tell you…

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he saw the head of SpaceX last weekend and wanted to hear just one thing from her in light of company owner Elon Musk’s tumultuous Twitter takeover. “Tell me that the distraction that Elon might have on Twitter is not going to affect SpaceX,” Nelson,…

A long exposure photo shows the path of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as it launched the ispace mission on Dec. 11, 2022, with the rocket booster's return and landing visible as well. SpaceX Japanese lunar exploration company ispace began its long-anticipated first mission on Sunday, with a SpaceX Falcon 9…