SpaceX to give BFR update and announce a private Moon mission on Monday
SpaceX is set for a surprise event that is expected to revolve the announcement of a newly-contracted launch planned to…
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SpaceX has signed a private passenger for the first BFR launch around the Moon
SpaceX has officially announced that it has signed a private customer for what may be the first BFR launch to…
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SpaceX President talks BFR and Mars exploration in laid-back Madrid Q&A session
Speaking at a Q&A session hosted for a Madrid university's Master's of Business Administration students, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne…
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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell expects BFR spaceship hop tests in late 2019
Speaking on a panel titled "Future of Space" at a 2018 conference for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA)…
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SpaceX wants to use the first Mars-bound BFR spaceships as Martian habitats
Speaking at the 2018 Mars Society Convention, SpaceX's Principal Mars Development Engineer Paul Wooster briefly presented on the company's BFR…
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NASA and SpaceX probably can’t terraform Mars but that doesn’t matter
In recent weeks, a great deal of exaggerative noise has been spread wide about the supposed impossibility of making the…
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SpaceX is searching for BFR landing sites for early 2020s Mars missions
SpaceX Principal Mars Development Engineer Paul Wooster gave a surprise talk at a February 2018 meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis…
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SpaceX Mars rocket test site receives first huge rocket propellant storage tank
SpaceX has delivered one of the first undeniably rocketry-related pieces of hardware to its prospective Boca Chica test and launch…
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SpaceX competitor Blue Origin targets first Moon landing for 2023
Prospective SpaceX competitor and reusable rocket developer Blue Origin detailed its plans earlier this month to enable significant human presence…
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NASA funds study on SpaceX BFR as option for massive space telescope launch
Speaking at the Exoplanets II conference in Cambridge, UK July 6th, geophysicist and exoplanet hunter Dr. Debra Fischer briefly revealed…
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SpaceX ramps BFR factory construction as Mr Steven arm surgery continues
Photos taken on July 1st show that land leased by SpaceX to build the first port-located BFR factory and Falcon…
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SpaceX’s BFR Mars rocket tooling makes rare appearance in LA Port tent
After nearly ten weeks hidden inside the company's Port of Los Angeles tent, SpaceX's main BFR manufacturing tooling made another…
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SpaceX’s BFR Mars rocket and spaceship rendered in extraordinary fan artwork
Part of a newly-formed group known as Gravitation Innovation, artist and spaceflight fan David Romax published an extraordinary series of…
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This is how big SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy and BFR rocket is in real life
An artist duo has published an impressive, unofficial look at the true size of SpaceX's reusable rockets, using a brilliant combination…
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SpaceX to use superalloys in Mars rocket Raptor engines, says Elon Musk
A few days after he touched upon methods of creating BFR propellant on Mars, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mentioned in…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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SpaceX execs bullish on BFR as Mars rocket test facilities expand in Texas [photos]
Aerial observations of SpaceX's McGregor, Texas testing facilities on April 17 revealed an unusually frenetic level of construction and expansion…
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SpaceX moving fast on Mars rocket development, BFR tent spied with more tooling
Photos taken by Teslarati photographer Pauline Acalin have confirmed that SpaceX's massive Mars rocket fabrication tooling has been hiding in…
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