Elon Musk’s SpaceX reveals ambitious plans for Starship’s first orbital flight

Elon Musk’s SpaceX reveals ambitious plans for Starship’s first orbital flight that will see the 160ft-tall rocket launch from Texas before landing 90 minutes later off the coast of Hawaii An FCC filing has revealed that SpaceX is planning its first orbit launch Starship 15 will launch from Texas before making a ‘soft landing’ off … Read more

Elon Musk says SpaceX could re-fly Starship SN15 ‘soon’ following the rocket’s historic landing

Elon Musk says SpaceX could re-fly Starship SN15 ‘soon’ following the rocket’s historic landing last week that brought firm closer to goal of creating reusable ships that could take humans to Mars Elon Musk shared on Twitter that SpaceX could re-fly Starship SN15 soon This would make it the first reused prototype, which is part … Read more

Liftoff! SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit aboard a recycled Falcon 9 rocket

Liftoff! SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit aboard a recycled Falcon 9 rocket named after the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars SpaceX launched 60 new Starlink satellites into orbit Tuesday at 3:01pm ET The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Kennedy Space Station in Florida This is the third trip the rocket has … Read more

NASA DELAYS return of SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts until Saturday due to bad weather in Florida

The International Space Station will be crowded a little longer after NASA and SpaceX announced a delayed return for the Crew-1 mission. Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi were set undock from the orbiting laboratory April 28, but poor weather has pushed it to April 30. This means the Crew Dragon … Read more

NASA DELAYS the return of SpaceX’s Crew-1 astronauts until Saturday because of bad weather

The International Space Station will be crowded a little longer after NASA and SpaceX announced a delayed return for the Crew-1 mission. Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi were set undock from the orbiting laboratory April 28, but poor weather has pushed it to April 30. This means the Crew Dragon … Read more

NASA shares incredible timelapse video from the SpaceX Crew-2 launch

NASA has shared a remarkable nine-second timelapse video of the successful SpaceX Crew-2 rocket launch from Friday.  Crew-2 carried four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), and can be seen rising into the air and spreading a plume of light through the sky. As Crew-2 disappears over the horizon, the landing plume of the returning first … Read more

SpaceX’s Starlink and OneWeb satellite come within 109 feet of crashing into each other in orbit

OneWeb and SpaceX, the powerhouses in the internet satellite industry, had dangerously close encounter last weekend that was out of this world. Two satellites from each firm came within 190 feet of each other in orbit April 4, which sparked several ‘red alerts’ from the US Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron, The Verge reports. … Read more

SpaceX’s Starlink and OneWeb satellite come within 109 feet of crashing into each other in orbit

OneWeb and SpaceX, the powerhouses in the internet satellite industry, had dangerously close encounter last weekend that was out of this world. Two satellites from each firm came within 190 feet of each other in orbit April 4, which sparked several ‘red alerts’ from the US Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron, The Verge reports. … Read more

SpaceX launches TENTH batch of new Starlink satellites into orbit for 2021

SpaceX launched its 10th batch of Starlink satellites for the year Wednesday afternoon, bringing the total to 1,443 in orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket took off at 12:34pm ET from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida where ‘weather was looking beautiful with clear skies,’ a SpaceX officials said during the live stream. Along with … Read more