The billionaire space race is officially on, and as Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson headed to space earlier this month, even selling a ticket to SpaceX head Elon Musk, now Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos has officially made it to space and back Jeff Bezos’s space travel company Blue Origin has completed its first trip to space […]
Image via John Kraus Photos The long-awaited third addition to SpaceX’s fleet of spaceport droneships, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ (ASOG), arrived at Port Canaveral in Florida on the morning of Thursday, July 15. More photos here: https://t.co/uy3iF3WZWM — John Kraus (@johnkrausphotos) July 15, 2021 ASOG joins its predecessor, ‘Just Read the Instructions’ (JRTI), in recovering […]
According to a recent tweet from “Supercharger sleuth” and avid Tesla Motors Club (TMC) contributor Marco (@MarcoRPTesla), the V3 Tesla Supercharger at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, will be permanently closed to the general public on Monday, July 19. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!Hawthorne will be closed (permanently) to the public starting Monday 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/4wD5M8aFul — Supercharger King 👑 […]
U.S. company SpaceX may be looking to partner with local manufacturers to develop Starlink components, ahead of an expansion of its beta satellite internet service into a new country. SpaceX shared plans to form a partnership with local Indian manufacturing firms, in preparations to launch the service within the country as soon as next year, […]
On Friday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared aerial footage of the company’s newest autonomous spaceport droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas (ASOG), finally taking to the sea in its very first sea-trial outside Port Fourchon. Autonomous SpaceX droneship,A Shortfall of Gravitas pic.twitter.com/hNZ5U7nxUg — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 9, 2021 When asked if ASOG is fully automated […]
After a successful Falcon 9 CRS-22 launch of SpaceX’s reusable Dragon spacecraft last month, the spacecraft is set to return to Earth after undocking on Thursday. NASA autonomously undocked the SpaceX CRS-22 mission’s Dragon cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning, as broadcast live on NASA TV. The spacecraft is set […]
Starlink, a satellite-based internet company from SpaceX, offers the greatest connectivity improvements to rural and remote communities, and in a recent update, the company is now offering better speeds to the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma has started installing SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet to help increase connectivity throughout the region, according to a […]
According to The Verge, a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer stopped and ticketed a driver on Friday for sticking a Starlink user terminal, lovingly known as Dishy McFlatface, right onto the middle of their car’s hood, which constitutes a “visual obstruction”. “Sir I stopped you today for that visual obstruction on your hood. Does it […]
Following a successful launch of SpaceX’s Transporter-2 Mission on Wednesday, a new update holds that the U.S. company’s orbital hardware may nearly be on target to collide with an orbiting Russian cargo ship. A SpaceX Starlink satellite and a Falcon 9 rocket fragment could both be poised to have a near-miss with Russian cargo ship […]
SpaceX has launched its Transporter-2 mission with Falcon 9 taking its 85 commercial and government spacecraft into orbit, which includes 3 Starlink satellites. Check out the live launch below happening right now, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with the landing set for Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1), […]
This afternoon’s SpaceX Transporter-2 mission was scrubbed, due to a plane entering closed airspace, thus affecting Falcon 9’s launch. The SpaceX team did not reach the countdown stage and will now launch during tomorrow’s backup opportunity. “Hold called due to Range being no-go; teams are setting up for tomorrow’s backup opportunity,” said SpaceX on Twitter, […]
In his virtual video interview during the Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talked about Starlink’s exponential growth, and also touched upon the venture’s finances, reports Reuters. Starlink is SpaceX’s high-speed satellite broadband project designed to bridge the connectivity gap in rural/remote areas and provide affordable internet at viable speeds […]
Speaking at the National Space Society’s virtual International Space Development Conference on Friday, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said that the company is “shooting for July” to launch the first orbital spaceflight of its ‘Starship’ spacecraft — reports CNBC. “I’m hoping we make it, but we all know that this is difficult,” she added. Shortly after […]
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet has surpassed a “strategically important threshold,” according to CEO Elon Musk. The milestone was achieved on Thursday evening, explained Musk on Friday afternoon. “Starlink simultaneously active users just exceeded the strategically important threshold of 69,420 last night!”, said an emphatic Musk. Starlink simultaneously active users just exceeded the strategically important threshold […]
Originally, SpaceX planned to launch its Falcon 9 rocket for the Transporter-2 on Friday afternoon, though the company has decided to push the launch back, according to a post on Twitter. SpaceX announced that it would now target Tuesday, June 29 for the upcoming Falcon 9 Transporter-2 launch, which will reportedly carry 88 new spacecraft […]
