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EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Oct. 13 with weather delay. NASA astronaut Bob Hines (left), Jessica Watkins (top), European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (bottom), and Crew-4 commander Kjell Lindgren (right) aboard the International Space Station in July. Credit: NASA Four astronauts are preparing to ride a SpaceX Dragon crew capsule from the…

SpaceX is set to apply to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for a global mobile personal communications by satellite services (GMPCS) permit to launch broadband-from-space services in India under its Starlink brand, said people with knowledge of the matter. The move will pit the Elon Musk-owned company against the likes…

NASA will provide live coverage of the upcoming return activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station...Read More

NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann made history last week, becoming not only the first Native American woman in space, but also the first woman to command a Crew Dragon capsule. SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft dropped off Mann and the crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission. Mann is the mission commander,…

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blazes by the nearly full moon seconds after launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with the Galaxy 33 and 34 communications satellites. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography SpaceX launched a pair of four-ton Intelsat communications spacecraft from Cape Canaveral at twilight…

Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intelsat's Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 satellites on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida after an automatic abort on Oct. 6, 2022. (Image credit: SpaceX) A veteran SpaceX rocket poised to make its 14th flight aborted…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on its record-tying 14th mission Saturday (Oct. 8), sending two commercial communications satellites to orbit. The Falcon 9, topped with Intelsat's Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 satellites, lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday at 7:05 p.m.…

SpaceX’s Dragon Endurance spacecraft on final approach to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s four-person Dragon Endurance crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station Thursday, delivering U.S., Japanese, and Russian crew members to the complex and replacing four astronauts scheduled to conclude their long-duration…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch Intelsat’s Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 geostationary communications satellites. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live A pair of TV broadcasting…

The Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 (top and bottom) satellites stacked in launch configuration at SpaceX’s payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Intelsat For the third time in 31 hours, SpaceX is poised to fire a Falcon 9 rocket into space Thursday, this time on a…