SpaceX worth $33B after raising more than $1B for Starlink and Starship
Since April 2018, SpaceX has successfully raised more than $1.24 billion through the sale of equity, likely sold to investors…
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SpaceX’s Starhopper readies for more ambitious Raptor-powered flight tests
For the second time in two months, SpaceX technicians have begun to install a Raptor engine on Starhopper, a full-scale…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to use Starships as Earth-to-Earth transports
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk indicates that the company is analyzing the use of single-stage Starship spacecraft as a potential pillar…
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SpaceX Starship website spotted ahead of Elon Musk’s June rocket update
It appears that SpaceX is preparing a dedicated website for its proposed Starship point-to-point transport system, potentially capable of transporting…
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SpaceX’s space-optimized Starship engine could be ready sooner than later
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that there is now a chance that a vacuum-optimized version of the Raptor engine will…
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SpaceX’s orbital Starship gains a nose as East Coast prototype makes progress
On May 20th, SpaceX technicians successfully stacked a nosecone on top of the company's Boca Chica orbital Starship prototype. Simultaneously,…
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SpaceX is constructing a second Starship prototype
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the company's second orbital Starship prototype is already in the early stages of…
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SpaceX’s Starship could launch secret Turkish satellite, says Gwynne Shotwell
According to SpaceX COO/President Gwynne Shotwell and a Turkish satellite industry official, Starship and Super Heavy may have a role…
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SpaceX stacks orbital Starship sections as Elon Musk teases June 20th event
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he will provide a public update on the development status of Starship and Super Heavy…
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SpaceX’s Starhopper gains thruster pods as hop test preparations ramp up
Amid a flurry of new construction at SpaceX's Boca Chica facilities, technicians have begun to install thruster pods on Starhopper…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk teases steel Starship on the Moon and Mars
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has published the first official renders of the company's updated stainless steel Starship, offering glimpses of…
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SpaceX wants to unleash Starhopper but longer Raptor test fires come first
According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the next round of Starhopper activity will focus on removing the spacecraft prototype's tethers…
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SpaceX’s Starship, Starhopper prototypes continue slow and steady progress
The last few weeks of SpaceX's work on Starship and Starhopper prototypes has been marked by less visible progress relative…
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SpaceX’s steel Starship gets new official render, this time with a huge NASA telescope
SpaceX recently provided NASA with the third known official render of its stainless steel Starship, focused on the vehicle's potential…
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SpaceX preps second $500M fundraiser as Starlink & Starship make progress
According to regulatory documents seen by Prime Unicorn Index, SpaceX finished a $500M funding round begun in December 2018 and…
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SpaceX builds new orbital Starship sections as Starhopper loses its engine
Amidst the growing buzz centered around the imminent second launch of Falcon Heavy, SpaceX's South Texas team has continued to…
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SpaceX Starship ignites Raptor engine for the first time ahead of hop tests
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the company's first full-scale Starship prototype has completed an inaugural hop test in South…
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk proposes Starship, Starlink tech for Solar System tour
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has proposed an unusual approach to conducting a robotic survey of the Solar System's major outer…
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SpaceX’s Starship hopper steps towards first hop with several cautious tests
SpaceX's team of South Texas engineers and technicians have dived into a program of critical pre-hop tests of the first…
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SpaceX’s steel Starship glows during Earth reentry in first high-quality render
SpaceX has silently published the first known detailed render of its new stainless steel Starship's design on the cover of…
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