SpaceX begins filling Starship’s orbital launch site with rocket propellant
Less than a year after tank farm assembly began in South Texas, SpaceX has begun the painstaking process of filling…
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SpaceX and NASA defeat Blue Origin’s Starship Moon lander lawsuit
While specific details of the decision are likely a few weeks away, the US Court of Federal Claims has denied…
3 years ago
SpaceX accepts delivery of NASA’s DART asteroid impact spacecraft
NASA says that the Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) spacecraft has arrived at SpaceX's Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) facilities…
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch five times next year
New US military confirmation of a third SpaceX Falcon Heavy contract means that the world's most powerful operational rocket has…
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SpaceX wins Skynet launch contract
SpaceX has won a contract to launch Skynet on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2025. Instead of a self-aware, apocalyptic…
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Starlink exits its beta phase, but its production is affected by the global chip shortage
SpaceX recently introduced some updates to its official Starlink website. And while the private space company formally dropped the "Beta"…
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SpaceX begins assembling Starbase’s biggest manufacturing building yet
It might not look like much today but SpaceX has begun assembling what is set to become Starbase's largest Starship…
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SpaceX astronaut launch slips into November
Update: A "minor medical issue involving one of [the] crew members" has forced NASA to delay Crew-3 a bit less…
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SpaceX Starship prototype ready for record-breaking tests
Over the weekend, SpaceX has installed the last of its first orbital-class Starship's six Raptor engines, setting the prototype up…
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SpaceX preparing Super Heavy, Starbase for booster’s next steps
Amid a flurry of deliveries and work on several new Starship boosters, SpaceX is preparing the first truly finished Super…
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SpaceX rolls Raptor Vacuum engines to launch pad for Starship’s next tests
For the second time, SpaceX is gearing up to install a full six Raptor engines on the first orbital-class Starship…
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SpaceX rideshare program beats small rockets for Emirati launch contract
The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) space agency has contracted with SpaceX to launch a domestically-built Earth observation satellite on a…
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SpaceX Dragon, Falcon 9 rocket roll out to pad for first launch in six weeks
SpaceX has rolled a Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 to the launch pad for the rocket's first launch in more…
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Russia deems SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 safe to launch cosmonauts
Seven years after Russian bureaucrat and oligarch Dmitry Rogozin - faced with economic sanctions in response to Russia's illegal invasion…
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SpaceX’s newest Crew Dragon spacecraft arrives at launch site
Right on schedule, SpaceX has rolled a new Crew Dragon spacecraft to the pad for its first astronaut launch. Known…
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SpaceX fires up first upgraded Starship engine
CEO Elon Musk has implicitly revealed that SpaceX recently conducted the first test of Starship's new Raptor 2 engine. Aside…
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SpaceX’s path to refueling Starships in space is clearer than it seems
Perhaps the single biggest mystery of SpaceX's Starship program is how exactly the company plans to refuel the largest spacecraft…
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SpaceX Starship fires up Raptor Vacuum engine twice in one hour
After weeks of exceptionally cautious buildup, SpaceX's first orbital-class Starship prototype has repeatedly broken new ground tests in the first…
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SpaceX begins installing ‘Mechazilla’ arms designed to catch Starship rockets
After a busy few weeks spent attaching Mechazilla's two rocket-catching arms to a carriage-like backbone, SpaceX has begun the process…
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SpaceX’s next Crew Dragon astronaut mission settles on Halloween launch
After initially moving forward 24 hours from October 31st to October 30th, SpaceX's next Crew Dragon astronaut mission has slipped…
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