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Home News Human Spaceflights Since its first crewed flight in 2020, SpaceX has continued to launch astronauts to the International Space Station and return them home to Earth as part of a partnership with NASA.  In 2011, NASA contracted both SpaceX and Boeing to build vehicles to ferry astronauts to…

Watch a replay of our coverage of the third launch attempt Sept .15 for SpaceX’s Starlink 4-34 mission at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The countdown Sept. 13 was scrubbed due to lightning. The Starlink 4-34 mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of…

The Northern lights (Aurora Borelias) over the city Tromso in northern Norway. Aurora watchers in Alaska this month saw both a brilliant aurora display and a string of SpaceX satellites crossing the night. Photo by Morten Bjoernbakk/EPA Sept. 15 (UPI) -- Sky watchers in Alaska were treated to both a…

Home News Spaceflight McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. (Image credit: Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Photo Library) SpaceX's Starlink internet constellation is getting a serious remote-service test. SpaceX has long touted Starlink's potential as a world connector, allowing people in rural areas and other underserved communities to access high-speed internet. And Starlink…

SpaceX is upset at the FCC for rejecting an $886 million Starlink subsidy, experts say autonomous vehicles may need some form of human supervision, and major credit card companies will implement a code at gun stores to track gun and ammunition sales.   That’s all the tech news that’s trending right…

Watch a replay of our coverage of the first launch attempt for SpaceX’s Starlink 4-34 mission at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The countdown Sept. 13 was scrubbed due to lightning. The Starlink 4-34 mission will launch SpaceX’s next batch of 54 Starlink…

Home » Space » Soon Three Fully Finished SpaceX Starship Super Heavies SpaceX has one super heavy booster and Starship prepared for an orbital test flight. The next booster and Starship are also nearly completed and a third set is nearing completion. Starbase Production Diagram – 7th September 2022 pic.twitter.com/moxg3CZ81q…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX launched a novel — and colossal — commercial communications satellite into orbit late Saturday and set a new launch record for its Falcon 9 rocket at the same time. The Falcon 9 launched into orbit from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying…

Home News Spaceflight Update for 11:30 pm ET: SpaceX has successfully launched the huge BlueWalker 3 communications satellite and 34 Starlink satellites, as well as landed a Falcon 9 rocket for a record 14th time. Read our full story here. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will fly for a record-breaking…

A reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 booster completed its record-breaking 14th flight to space after blastoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 9:20 p.m. EDT Saturday (0120 GMT Sunday). The mission was billed as one of SpaceX’s complex launches to date, deploying 34 Starlink internet spacecraft and a testbed satellite for…