SpaceX’s second rocket recovery drone ship leaves port during Starlink launch
On October 18th, SpaceX's second booster recovery 'drone ship' left Port Canaveral at the exact same time as a Falcon…
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SpaceX orbits 60 more Starlink satellites, recovers booster, and catches fairing halves
SpaceX has successfully orbited another batch of 60 Starlink satellites, landed the Falcon 9 booster that launched it, and caught…
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SpaceX adds third Starlink launch to busy October manifest
SpaceX has added another Starlink launch to its October manifest and plans to support the mission with a record-breaking Falcon…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch 14th Starlink mission on Sunday
Spaceflight Now reports that a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is five days out from the company's 14th dedicated Starlink launch,…
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SpaceX Starlink aids Native American tribe: “It catapulted us into the 21st century”
Just a week after news broke that SpaceX was gifting Starlink internet service to Washington State's Emergency Management department, the…
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SpaceX’s Starlink successes secure US military contract for custom satellites
SpaceX has won $149 million from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to leverage the successes of its Starlink constellation and…
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SpaceX aces Starlink launch, landing, and catch as Elon Musk teases public beta ETA
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully launched the 12th batch of ~60 operational Starlink satellites, bringing more than 19…
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SpaceX Starlink launch suffers third weather scrub, next attempt Tuesday
Update: Multiple weather constraint violations forced SpaceX to scrub today's Starlink-12 launch attempt less than half an hour before liftoff,…
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SpaceX eyes two Falcon 9 rocket launches, landings in eleven hours [update: just Starlink]
Update #2: The GPS III SV04 mission's Falcon 9 rocket aborted its October 2nd launch attempt just two seconds before…
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SpaceX lends Starlink to Washington emergency services as Elon Musk talks IPO
SpaceX has provided Washington's Emergency Management department access to Starlink satellite internet service in a bid to support the state's…
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SpaceX Starlink launch suffers last-second scrub, ULA up next [update: double scrub]
Update: ULA has scrubbed today's NROL-44 launch attempt after the weather at the launch site substantially worsened. The Delta IV…
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SpaceX go for Starlink launch, landing as ULA rocket delays persist
SpaceX is on track for Falcon 9's latest Starlink launch and landing later today as delays continue to hamper a…
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SpaceX delays Starlink launch as ocean outmatches drone ship upgrades
SpaceX's 13th Starlink launch has been indefinitely delayed by "severe weather in the recovery area, later explained by CEO Elon…
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(Update: scrubbed) SpaceX’s next Starlink launch to break rocket fairing reuse record
Update: SpaceX says that today's Starlink-12 launch attempt was scrubbed due to a mysterious "recovery issue." Liftoff from Kennedy Space…
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SpaceX eyes Starlink to connect rocket recovery ships to the internet
Regulatory filings show that SpaceX wants to use Starlink to connect its fleet of rocket recovery ships to the internet,…
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SpaceX drone ship heads to sea for Falcon 9’s next Starlink launch and landing
An upgraded SpaceX drone ship is headed roughly 630 kilometers (~390 mi) into the Atlantic Ocean to support Falcon 9's…
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SpaceX Starlink beta latency results on par with fixed broadband in recent tests
In a letter to the FCC last week regarding a request for modification of their Ku/Ka-band license, SpaceX included a…
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SpaceX’s 13th Starlink launch set hours before next ULA Delta IV Heavy attempt
SpaceX and ULA's next launch attempts have coincidentally wound up scheduled within hours of each other for the second time…
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SpaceX’s youngest Falcon 9 booster returns to port after second launch
SpaceX's youngest flight-proven Falcon 9 booster has returned to port after its second successful launch in ten weeks, preceded by…
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SpaceX Starlink ‘space lasers’ successfully tested in orbit for the first time
SpaceX has revealed the first successful test of Starlink satellite 'space lasers' in orbit, a significant step along the path…
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