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.
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SpaceX will livestream the launch, including final launch preparations, liftoff, first stage separation, fairing separation, the deploying of the satellites, and the always-exciting catching of the first stage. The first stage will be caught by the droneship Of Course I Still Love You which wil...
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...
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. ...
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch today (April 16) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and you can watch the action live.
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...
The launch is historic in part because it ends a nearly 10-yearlong U.S. dependency on Russia for seats to space. It also marks the first time Elon Musk's private space firm, SpaceX, is launching astronauts. The SpaceX Falcon 9, with Dragon crew capsule is serviced on Launch Pad 39...
And they just shared why: SpaceX actually put a banana inside the Starship spacecraft and will be launching it to space today. “Bananas have been used for quick visual comparisons for quite some time, and our teammates thought it was time to bring the venerated yellow fruit to Starship,...
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...