NASA, SpaceX and Roscosmos completed a Flight Readiness Review for the Crew-9 mission on Monday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. NASA astronaut Nick Hague (left) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX ...
While SpaceX's three competitors are making brand-new rockets, SpaceX is the only company that would be launching the military satellites on flight-proven rockets: the Falcon 9, which already has nearly 70 missions under its belt, and the Falcon Heavy, which launched its first commercial missi...
On April 23rd, after a one-day delay for bad weather, SpaceXlaunched four astronauts on a flight-proven Falcon 9 booster– and in aflight-proven Dragon capsule– in a historic spaceflight first. Six days later, the company aced its24th operational Starlink launch, followed bytwo more60-satel...
Astronomers discovered last month that a piece of debris is on track to crash into the moon in less than three weeks. It was originally thought to be part of aSpaceX rocketthat launched in 2015 — but a closer look at the object revealed a potentially different story. Bill Gray, who wri...
Tech magnate Elon Musk's SpaceX vowed Monday to send its first astronauts into orbit on schedule next year—part of a drive to restore America's dominance of the space race.
designed to deliver high-speed internet to consumers anywhere on the planet. SpaceX first rolled out the service witha beta program for select consumersfor $99 a month, and in the past year has sought regulatory approval totest the network inflightandexpand the service to large moving vehicles...
6, 2018. (Image credit: SpaceX) Where is Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its dummy "driver," Starman? The Roadster, which launched on the maiden flight of SpaceX's huge Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, surely has a window full of speeding tickets by now. And it's apparently ...
The only thing interrupting the creosote and mesquite that make up one of New Mexico's most remote stretches of desert is a pristine runway where Virgin Galactic plans one day to launch the world's first commercial space-line.
The second half of SpaceX’s June 2021 flight schedule has begun to firm up, raising the odds of another four-launch month as the end of the first half of 2021 fast approaches. In an increasing rarity among a slew of pandemic and shortage-stricken satellites, rockets, and launch flows, ...
The U.S. Space Force's Space Development Agency has ordered the first eight satellites for its upcoming 'FOO Fighter' hypersonic missile-tracking constellation.