SpaceX on Friday morning launched the Transporter-4 rideshare mission from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying 40 small satellites and spacecraft to sun-synchronous orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/98AatbJNTO — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 1, 2022 This particular Falcon-9 rocket has previously supported the Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, […]
SpaceX’s Starlink internet is continuing to grow in popularity as it reaches markets across the world, though a new update to the company’s website shows a map of where customers are waitlisted and where the service is available. With so many users asking when they can get Starlink, SpaceX has added waitlist location markers to […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared on Monday the company’s Falcon rocket team is “making excellent progress” in 2022, and is now aiming for 60 launches in 2022. Back in January, it was revealed SpaceX was planning on targeting 52 launches this year, which would be a launch cadence of one per week. Musk’s further details […]
SpaceX will cease production of new Crew Dragon capsules, according to a company executive speaking with Reuters. While the company currently has four Crew Dragon capsules, SpaceX is also planning to succeed the spacecraft with Starship, a rocket made for eventual trips to the moon and Mars. The company will cap its Crew Dragon fleet […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Friday it is again extending its environmental review date for SpaceX’s Starship launch site, yet again. The extension of its target date is now set for April 29, 2022. The FAA is reviewing the environmental impact of the launch site at Boca Chica, Texas, ahead of the first full-stack […]
Responding to an article from digital news outlet Slashdot outlining Russia’s apparent hacking of thousands of Ukrainian satellite modems that accompanied its invasion of Ukraine, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday said Starlink, the company’s satellite internet service, has so far overcome all hacking and jamming attempts in Ukraine. California-based Viasat, a rival satellite broadband […]
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 […]
