SpaceX’s BFR factory abuzz with work activity and giant rocket tooling
A large temporary SpaceX facility intended for initial Mars rocket fabrication was spied abuzz with activity as employees work to…
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SpaceX Mars rocket tooling dwarfs Tesla Model 3 in new Elon Musk teaser
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has published the first public photo of fabrication tooling intended to enable the construction of the…
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SpaceX’s first BFR manufacturing facility approved by the Port of LA
SpaceX has been given initial approval by the Port of Los Angeles to acquire and develop a massive vacant lot…
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SpaceX to fly reused rockets on half of all 2018 launches as competition lags far behind
Speaking at SATELLITE 2018, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell reiterated the company's commitment to and their customers' acceptance of reusable rockets…
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SpaceX will launch its Mars spaceship into orbit as early as 2020
First spaceship prototype already under construction Speaking on a launch industry round-table at the Satellite 2018 conference, SpaceX President and…
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SpaceX confirms plan to activate South Texas launch site in late 2018
Following our report that Elon Musk's space company was progressing on the development of a new launch site in Texas,…
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US Air Force awards SpaceX $20m contract to support its biggest spy satellites
Slipping beneath the watchful eye of many skilled defense journalists, the government contracting database FPDS.gov indicates that the US Air…
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SpaceX talks Moon mission as strategic stepping stone for Mars colony
Josh Brost, Senior Director of SpaceX's Government Business Development was in attendance at a civil spaceflight conference in Washington D.C.…
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SpaceX fan creates impressive CGI of BFR launch and landing
Being able to witness SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System, also referred to as BFR by CEO Elon Musk, blast into the skies…
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Elon Musk taunts Boeing on claim they’ll beat SpaceX to Mars
The space-race to Mars is heating up, as Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg seemingly calls out SpaceX CEO Elon Musk by saying…
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SpaceX’s existing investors increase stake, add $100 million in ‘follow-on’ round
SpaceX has raised $100 million in funding, adding to its $350 million Series H round that the Elon Musk-led company closed…
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SpaceX granted additional $40.7M by U.S. Air Force for “BFR engine” development
SpaceX has been granted an additional $40.7 million in funding by the U.S. Air Force for development of the company's…
7 years ago
What will it feel like to ride on SpaceX’s BFR? NASA astronaut explains
Former NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander, Leroy Chiao, explains what it might feel like to ride inside SpaceX's human-transport rocket and…
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US Air Force issues RFP for massive rockets, SpaceX’s BFR could be one of them
The US Air Force has released a Request For Proposal (RFP) that hopes to fund the development of multiple heavy-lift…
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SpaceX’s BFR rocket to take people anywhere in the world in under 60 minutes, says Musk
Amid big reveals at IAC2017 about SpaceX’s future, CEO Elon Musk dropped a mammoth concept: City-to-city rocket travel that would transport…
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