SpaceX targeting five East Coast Falcon launches in first month of 2022
In a new statement focused on Cape Canaveral's "exceptionally busy" 2022 schedule, a senior US Space Force (formerly Air Force)…
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SpaceX Starship ‘launch tower’ spreads its rocket-catching arms
Update: Shortly after publishing, SpaceX began a much more ambitious series of tests with the Starship launch tower's two main…
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Elon Musk says SpaceX making good progress on Starship’s upgraded Raptor 2 engines
As is routine, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to offer a few details about the status of…
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SpaceX Starship prototype completes fourth static fire
In its true last act of the year, SpaceX successfully fired up its first orbital-class Starship for the fourth time…
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SpaceX drone ship heads to sea for first 2022 Falcon launch
SpaceX drone ship Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) departed Port Canaveral on January 1st, heading to sea on…
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SpaceX closes out 2021 with $1.85 billion in new funding
On the eve of the last day of 2021, SEC filings show that SpaceX has secured another $337 million, bringing…
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SpaceX almost loses Falcon 9 booster at sea
After more than a week at sea, the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster responsible for the company's 100th successful landing finally…
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SpaceX’s packed 2022 launch manifest ready to blow 2021 out of the water
On the heels of SpaceX's last launch of 2021, which rounded out a record-breaking year and marked the 100th successful…
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SpaceX’s first orbital Starship launch runs into more FAA delays
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it's at least two months behind schedule on an environmental review that must…
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SpaceX to upgrade Starship with 50% more Raptor engines
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that future Starships - or at least certain Starship variants - are being upgraded with…
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NASA Artemis delegation tours SpaceX’s Starship factory and launch pad
Thanks to the failure of Blue Origin's NASA Human Landing System (HLS) lawsuit, SpaceX and the space agency were finally…
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SpaceX begins testing first flightworthy Super Heavy booster
More than three months after the building-sized Starship booster's latest return to Starbase's orbital launch site, SpaceX has finally begun…
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SpaceX lands 100th Falcon booster
Exactly six years after its first successful recovery, SpaceX has landed a Falcon booster for the 100th time. On December…
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SpaceX go for last launch of 2021 [webcast]
Update: Despite terrible weather, SpaceX and NASA are on track to attempt to launch Cargo Dragon's CRS-24 space station resupply…
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SpaceX completes second Falcon 9 launch and landing in 15 hours
SpaceX has successfully completed two Falcon 9 launches and booster landings in just 15 hours, delivering around 20 metric tons…
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SpaceX to replicate Starbase, build multiple Starship launch pads in Florida
Less than two weeks after CEO Elon Musk revealed that SpaceX has restarted construction of a Starship launch site at…
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SpaceX VP says Starship is already winning commercial launch contracts
A SpaceX executive says that the company's next-generation, fully-reusable Starship rocket has already secured multiple commercial launch contracts. Set to…
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SpaceX’s next West Coast Starlink launch is heading to an unexpected orbit
SpaceX has unexpectedly changed the Earth orbit its next Starlink launch is targeting. Like all planned Starlink launches, the latest…
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SpaceX whistleblowers allege widespread sexual harassment
On the heels of a similar report on Blue Origin, five whistleblowers in two different exposes from Lioness and The…
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SpaceX aces first of three back-to-back Falcon 9 launches
Update #2: SpaceX has successfully delivered Starlink 4-4 - batch of 52 new satellites - to low Earth orbit (LEO),…
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