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SpaceX’s ultimate ace in the hole is its Starlink satellite internet business

In a 2018 report on the current state of the satellite industry, the rationale behind SpaceX’s decision to expand its business into the...

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SpaceX’s Elon Musk teases in-house R&D for BFR refueling on Mars

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to reaffirm SpaceX’s commitment to developing their own technology for refueling BFR beyond Earth, noting...

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SpaceX’s third Block 5 rocket heads to Texas test site as launch marathon nears

A SpaceX Falcon 9 – almost certainly the third Block 5 booster to leave the company’s factory – was spotted passing through...

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SpaceX posts first BFR-dedicated job posting – wanna build a Mars rocket?

SpaceX has published the first job posting specifically dedicated to BFR, the company’s ambitious fully-reusable Mars rocket and multipurpose launch vehicle. Currently...

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SpaceX plans huge expansion for Floridan Falcon refurbishment facilities

According to an environmental assessment published in April 2018, SpaceX aims to build a dedicated facility for storing, refurbishing and decommissioning Falcon...

It's not clear what recovery will look like for the first Block 5 Falcon Heavy.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy with Block 5 rockets targets November launch debut

According to several of its satellite passengers, SpaceX’s second launch of Falcon Heavy – this time with three Falcon 9 Block 5...

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SpaceX’s first fairing catch imminent with plans to 4X Mr Steven’s net

Following SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s brief confirmation that the launch company would be quadrupling recovery vessel Mr Steven’s already-huge net, members of...

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SpaceX’s BFR factory in LA spied with four Falcon 9 fairing halves

In an unexpected turn of events, Teslarati photographer Pauline Acalin came across a remarkable scene in Port of Los Angeles – four...

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SpaceX will transition all launches to Falcon 9 Block 5 rockets after next mission

SpaceX’s 13th reuse of a Falcon 9 booster marked the second-to-last orbital mission of older boosters before the rocket’s highly reusable Block...

SpaceX makes the vast majority of Falcon 9 in-house and appears set on continuing that strategy with Starlink.

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SpaceX to in-house mass production of Starlink internet satellite hardware

SpaceX is rapidly expanding it’s Starlink internet constellation development to prepare for full-scale production and aims to bring nearly every major piece...

Three flight proven launches in two months. CRS-13 is pictured above. (SpaceX)Three flight proven launches in two months. CRS-13 is pictured above. (SpaceX)

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SpaceX to fly ‘hybrid’ Falcon 9 with Block 4 and 5 stages on June 4 launch

According to SES chief technical officer Martin Halliwell, SpaceX intends to “thread the needle” with a unique hybrid Falcon 9 launch of...

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SpaceX releases photo of NASA astronauts testing in Crew Dragon spaceship

In a rare instance of publicity, SpaceX has given the public the first detailed glimpse of a NASA astronaut practicing inside a...

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SpaceX’s Starlink high-speed internet satellites alive and well in orbit

Comments from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and other executives have confirmed that the company’s first two prototype Starlink internet satellites are healthy and...

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SpaceX’s Mr Steven just misses catch, returns with intact Falcon 9 fairing

SpaceX appears to have successfully retrieved both halves of a Falcon 9 payload fairing intact, despite failing to catch them with recovery vessel...

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SpaceX to leverage Boring Co. tunneling tech to help humans settle Mars

SpaceX’s COO and President Gwynne Shotwell corroborated past comments made by CEO Elon Musk in a recent interview with CNBC, stating that...

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Tesla batteries powering SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule, reveals Shotwell

In a May interview with CNBC’s Morgan Brennan, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell revealed that Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft...

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SpaceX to launch one of its last old-gen Falcon 9s in upcoming launch

One of SpaceX’s rapidly shrinking fleet of older Falcon 9 launch vehicles has rolled out to the company’s California launch pad ahead...

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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship nears first orbital launch test

After roughly five years of concerted development, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has released the first official photo of the company’s Crew Dragon,...

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Key takeaways from Elon Musk’s Boring Company information session

Elon Musk provided a number of insights about The Boring Company’s Los Angeles tunneling initiatives in an information session held Thursday night at the Leo...