With clear blue skies all around, a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 8:25 a.m. ET carrying 60 Starlink satellites in the program’s latest launch. Recommended Videos As usual, an abundance of cameras livestreamed the event, with highlights including the laun...
Thanks to an abundance of livestream cameras showing everything from launch to landing, as well as satellite deployment and possibly the capture of the rocket’s two nose cone pieces, the missions are always good entertainment while at the same time highlighting just how far SpaceX has come in...
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (April 17) at 5:26 p.m. EDT (2126 GMT). The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after launch as planned. It landed vertica...
The three companies are the first to be selected under the Pentagon's lucrative National Security Space Launch Phase 3 procurement program, a multibillion-dollar competition among U.S. rocket companies vying to launch some of the country's most sensitive military and intelligence satellites into spa...
‘v1.0’ spacecraft, Starlink-2 will send another 60 internet satellites to orbit, where they will fire up their own electric thrusters to reach their final orbits. Along with marking the very first launch of the year, SpaceX is also setting up for a few notable rocket recovery milestones....
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is prepared to launch the Starlink satellites into orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.(Image credit: SpaceX) Starlink's impact on astronomy Within days of the first 60-satellite Starlink launch,skywatchers spotteda linear ...
After going eight years and more than 300 launches without a failure, SpaceX had a Falcon 9 rocket launch go awry, resulting in the expected loss of 20 Starlink satellites. The Federal Aviation Administration said it would oversee an investigation into the anomaly, raising the prospect that doze...
3 rocket lifted off on Monday in east China's Shandong Province, sending the satellite group CentiSpace 01 into the planned orbit. The rocket blasted off at 11 a.m. (Beijing Time) from the sea near the city of Haiyang. Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center conducted the offshore launch m......
And the more satellites we put into space, the more there is that we have to worry about when we send a rocket up there. So that does also cause problems. I mean it's still in the early days. I'm sure that they're thinking about hammering out all of these problems. Oh, for ...
Because of that, they can't be launched on a Falcon 9. SpaceX is betting Starlink's future on a Gen 2 satellite that hasn't been tested in orbit, and it requires a rocket—the Starship—that hasn't even launched yet. Idothink Starship will launch—but there are definite concerns over...