NASA will use SpaceX’s Dragon for an additional six resupply missions to the International Space Station through 2026, according to a press release on Friday. Along with SpaceX, NASA has offered six others to Northrop Grumman, with the 12 contracts costing a total of $14 billion. @SpaceX shared the news on Friday, saying that “Dragon […]
Inflation is beginning to hit raw materials, which apparently is causing SpaceX’s products and services to increase in price too, as detailed in a new email from the company. New emails to customers show that SpaceX is increasing the cost of its products and services, including both rocket launches and Starlink satellite internet, due to […]
NASA announced on Wednesday it has exercised an option under its original April 2021 contract with SpaceX, to select Starship for an additional human flight to the Moon, as part of its Artemis program. “NASA now is asking SpaceX to transform the company’s proposed human landing system into a spacecraft that meets the agency’s requirements […]
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said getting Starlink into Ukraine took over a month, with a new statement from the president detailing just how many Starlink kits the U.S. company has sent. Shotwell said that SpaceX has sent “thousands” of Starlink satellite kits to Ukraine, adding that a few other countries helped fund the project, according […]
Inflation has hit SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service, with prices of the Starlink kit and monthly service increasing, according to emails sent out to customers. Emails shared by Tesla North readers indicate the following: Starlink Kit for deposit holders – $549 USD (was $499 USD) Starlink Kit for new orders – $599 USD (was $499 […]
A video released over the weekend shows SpaceX’s Starlink rectangular terminal, as it’s trimmed down to become more power-efficient. A video shared by MikeOnSpace on Sunday showed a teardown of the latest rectangular Starlink terminal, in which the host, Mike, makes it into a low-power panel. The video begins with Mike showing what he did […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that the company will use Raptor 2 engines for the first orbital flight test of its Starship spacecraft, which will “hopefully” be in May. “We’ll have 39 flightworthy engines built by next month, then another month to integrate, so hopefully May for orbital flight test,” wrote Musk in […]
A London-based satellite internet company has been granted rights to resume launching its internet constellation as soon as this year. OneWeb announced on March 21 that it had officially reached a deal with SpaceX, effectively letting the company continue to launch its low-Earth orbit (LEO) internet constellation, according to Space News. In a press release […]
SpaceX on Thursday evening successfully conducted its first propellant load test of the full Starship SN20 stack (via @TheFavoritist). Overnight, SpaceX tested the full Starship stack with liquid nitrogen. Meanwhile, an SN8 forward flap was spotted on display at the Brownsville Airport. Video from @BocaChicaGal, @nicansuini, and the NSF Robots. Edited by Nate Shields. 📺 https://t.co/OwyyRtwXST […]
According to unnamed sources familiar with Starlink’s operations in Ukraine, there are now more than 5,000 terminals of SpaceX’s satellite broadband service active in the country — reports The Washington Post. Starlink is a high-speed broadband service from SpaceX that connects to a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and is designed to […]
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Friday announced an adjustment to the target launch date of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-4 mission, previously set to launch Friday, April 15, now has a “no earlier than” launch date of Tuesday, April 19. NASA said the delay […]
SpaceX is minutes away from launching its Falcon 9 rocket into low Earth orbit, to send 53 Starlink satellites into space. The launch is taking place from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, set to lift off at 12:42 a.m. ET (4:42 UTC). A backup launch window is […]
Just three days after receiving its third batch of Starlink terminals from SpaceX and Elon Musk, Ukraine has received a fourth shipment of hardware from the latter. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, made the announcement on Friday afternoon. “A new batch of Starlink stations! While Russia is blocking access […]
Netflix has shared its latest trailer for ‘Return to Space’, a documentary set to stream on April 7, 2022. “Offering rare inside access to NASA and SpaceX, this is the thrilling story of the nearly 20 year journey to send American astronauts back to space aboard U.S. rockets, from Oscar-winning filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy […]
A new report from Ookla Speedtest examining Q4 2021 internet download/upload speed data from users across the world found that SpaceX’s Starlink saw a marked increase in median download speeds, delivering 100+ Mbps in the U.S., Canada, and 13 other countries. Starlink is a high-speed broadband service from SpaceX that connects to a constellation of […]
