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SpaceX’s historic rocket catch earlier this month was even more dramatic than it looked. That catch occurred on Oct. 13, during the fifth test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket. Starship’s huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, came back to Earth about seven minutes after liftoff, nestling next to its launch tower, which secured the […]
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Saturday evening (Oct. 26). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:47 p.m. EDT (2147 GMT). The first stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lands on the Just Read the […]
SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is about to hit the century mark for the year. A Falcon 9 is set to launch a batch of next-gen spy satellites for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) today (Oct. 24) from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 1:13 p.m. EDT (1713 GMT; 10:13 a.m. local time). The […]
SpaceX is deep into planning for its newest Starship launch. Super Heavy, the first stage of the rocket that hefts Starship into space, was moved to a Starbase pad for testing ahead of the planned sixth flight of the next generation space system, SpaceX officials stated on Tuesday (Oct. 22). (Starbase is the location in […]
SpaceX plans to send a set of internet satellites to orbit for another company early Sunday morning (Oct. 20). SpaceX plans to launch the last batch of Eutelsat OneWeb’s V1 satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday at 1:13 a.m. EDT (0513 GMT; 10:13 p.m. on Oct. 19 […]
SpaceX has given us another angle on the epic fifth test flight of its Starship megarocket. The company made history on that Oct. 13 mission, catching Starship‘s Super Heavy first-stage booster with the “chopstick” arms of the launch tower about seven minutes after liftoff. But Starship’s 165-foot-tall (50 meters) upper stage — known as Starship, or […]
SpaceX plans to send yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (Oct. 18). A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 20 Starlink craft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight at 7:31 p.m. EDT (2331 GMT). SpaceX will stream the launch […]
Watch live! SpaceX Falcon Heavy to launch NASA’s Europa Clipper – YouTube Watch On NASA’s first mission to another ocean world in our solar system will launch toward Jupiter on Monday (Oct. 14), but if you want to watch it live, you’ll need to know when to tune in. Europa Clipper, a $5-billion NASA mission […]
Watch live! SpaceX to launch Starship, attempt to catch booster – YouTube Watch On It’s official: SpaceX is “go” to launch what may be its most ambitious Starship test flight yet, and if you’re hoping to watch it live online, don’t worry. We’ve got you covered. SpaceX’s next Starship test launch, called Starship Flight 5, […]
NASA has postponed the launch of its next flagship mission to Jupiter by at least another day as the agency and SpaceX conduct additional checks to ensure the spacecraft is ready to fly after Hurricane Milton battered its Florida launch site. The mission, called Europa Clipper, is now targeted to launch to Jupiter’s icy moon […]