Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain US regulators on Friday cleared SpaceX to restart launching its stalwart Falcon 9 rocket, as a probe continues into a rare mishap this week during a first-stage booster landing. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded the Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday after a first-stage booster tipped over and exploded while attempting
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After a record 2023, SpaceX is not slowing down its launch plans for 2024 with the first launch of the year from Florida slated for Wednesday evening. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying a telecom satellite for private Swedish company Ovzon is slated to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first SpaceX launch of 2024, which took place Tuesday night, included something that none of the company’s prior launches did. The Falcon 9 rocket carried 21 low-orbit satellites for its sister company, Starlink, including six that—for the first time—feature direct-to-cell communications. The satellites are designed to eliminate cellphone service “dead
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on top is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA and SpaceX will try again on Saturday to send the next crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station. Dubbed Crew-7, the mission
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is offering to sell insider shares at a price that lifts its valuation to around $150 billion, according to a Bloomberg News report Friday. The company—the first private company to send astronauts into orbit, among many other firsts—is initially seeking a $750 million tender offer, the report
A prototype of Starship, a huge rocket made by SpaceX, sits on a launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas in February 2022. SpaceX plans to carry out its first test flight on Monday of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and eventually beyond. The launch is scheduled to…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is to blast off early Monday for the International Space Station carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and the second Emirati to voyage to space. The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission is set to…