SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
Donald Trump:Those capsules will soon return Americans to lunar orbit for the first time in over 50 years, half a century. By 2024, our astronauts will return to the lunar surface to establish a permanent presence and t...
SpaceX's Crew-9 mission to theInternational Space Stationremains on track for a launch on Saturday (Sept. 27), flying to orbit no earlier than 1:17 p.m. EDT (1717 GMT). The launching area around Cape CanaveralSpace ForceStation is safe following the arrival of Hurricane Helene on the F...
The Federal Aviation Administration can’t “keep pace with the commercial spaceflight industry” and “lacks the resources” to respond to mission changes, SpaceX said in a letter sent in response to $633,000 in federal fines for launching two missions with unapproved changes. SpaceX owner Elon...
Polaris Dawn will have to wait a few more days at least before launching on the program's pioneering mission. Liftoff had been set for early Wednesday morning, Aug. 28, at 3:38 a.m. EDT (0738 GMT), but late in the evening Tuesday, SpaceX posted on X, formerly Twitter, that weather...
a feat that it’s planning to try for the first time with the upcoming fifth test flight of the Starship. It also included a photo of how the first-stage Super Heavy booster will look when clasped between the tower’s giant mechanical arms after launching the upper-stage Starship spacecraf...
SpaceX will be launching a batch of Starlink satellites today, December 18, using a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch will be livestreamed and we’ve got the details on how you can watch along at home. ...
Spectacular as it was, the launching was just the appetizer for a long-awaited test flight. Eight minutes after the rocket took off, two of the three Falcon 9 core stages that helped power the vehicle out of the lower atmosphere made rocket-powered descents to side-by-side touchdowns at ...
For the first time since a May 2020 test flight, SpaceX is only launching two astronauts to the ISS on a Dragon spacecraft. That's because NASA pulled two other crewmembers -- its original commander Zena Cardman and three-time shuttle flier Stephanie Wilson -- from the flight to make roo...
Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will be on the SpaceX rocket that is launching on Wednesday, and Andrei Fedyaev will fly on another SpaceX mission in the spring of 2023, according to NASA. On the flip side, two seats on two separate launches of Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft have been reserved...