SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Axel Springer Awards ceremony on December 1, 2020 in Berlin. Hannibal Hanschke – Getty Images Elon Musk’s X may be on the rise, but another company owned by the billionaire is on its way to reaching dizzying heights. Musk is in talks to sell $500 million … [Read more…]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral early on September 21, 2014. BRUCE WEAVER/AFP/Getty Images Amazon has signed a deal with SpaceX to use Falcon 9 rockets to launch Amazon’s low-orbit satellites. Financial terms of the deal between the satellite internet rivals were not disclosed. The rockets are scheduled to … [Read more…]
SpaceX’s gigantic Super Heavy Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, launched on its second test flight on Saturday, and while the initial phase of the mission went smoothly, the first stage broke apart shortly after separating from the Starship’s upper stage. The spacecraft, in turn, exploded itself as it approached space. Viewed as a … [Read more…]
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company, launched its Starship rocket from the South Texas coast on Saturday, a mammoth vehicle that could change the future of space transportation and help NASA return astronauts to the moon. Saturday’s flight of the Starship, a powerful vehicle designed to carry NASA astronauts to the moon, was not a complete … [Read more…]
SpaceX’s Starship will launch on a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Saturday, November 18th. (Eric Gay/AP) SpaceX did not complete the entire mission and both the Starship spacecraft and the Super Heavy booster exploded over the ocean. But there were some big highlights for SpaceX. The rocket got much further into … [Read more…]
Starship and Super Heavy are ready for a second test flight on November 15, 2023. Image: Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now. SpaceX’s massive Super Heavy Starship rocket was cleared for a second test flight on Friday, carrying the unmanned Starship upper stage into space for the first time, the company announced Wednesday. The Federal Aviation Administration granted … [Read more…]
(Washington) America’s aviation regulator (FAA) gave SpaceX the green light on Wednesday for Elon Musk’s aerospace company’s second attempt to launch its Starship rocket, the most powerful ever built, after a spectacular explosion in April. Posted at 5:54 p.m In a press release, the FAA said that after the failure of the first launch of … [Read more…]
Following the groundbreaking success of the second test flight, SpaceX is actively preparing for the third integrated test flight (IFT 3) with the deployment of Ship 28 and Booster 10 to the launch site. This new phase demonstrates SpaceX’s continued commitment to space exploration. Recent Developments Ship 28 moved to the launch site on December … [Read more…]