SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave YouTube channel Everyday Astronaut a private 2-hour factory tour of the company’s Starbase factory. According to Everyday Astronaut’s video, Musk gives the channel a tour of the base and talks about technical details of SpaceX’s factory and its operations. 00:00 – Intro 02:02 – Conversation Starts 06:18 – High Bay […]
SpaceX is moving its Super Heavy booster to the rocket’s launch site as we speak, down in Starbase, Texas. This prototype rocket houses 29 of the company’s Raptor engines and has four grid fins to assist with landing. CEO Elon Musk shared video and images of the Super Heavy moving to its new launch stand […]
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is already operating a beta version of Starlink in countries across the world, but with an application for new licensing officially filed, the company is looking to provide internet coverage across Britain. SpaceX is seeking a license to establish a Starlink ground site on the Isle of Man, which, in addition […]
Back in April, SpaceX won the bidding war for a lunar lander contract from NASA. The $2.9 billion USD contract tasked Elon Musk’s space exploration and transportation company with carrying astronauts back to the moon in its Starship. However, the award was expected to have two recipients — not just one. Rivals Blue Origin and […]
Image via SpaceX On the day of Tesla’s Q2 2021 earnings, which broke records for the company, Elon Musk’s other venture, SpaceX, was making history of its own. SpaceX announced on Monday afternoon it had hit a milestone of the 100th build of a Raptor engine, used to power the company’s Starship system to send […]
NASA announced on Friday it has selected SpaceX and the latter’s Falcon Heavy for “Earth’s first mission to conduct detailed investigations of Jupiter’s moon Europa.” According to NASA, the Europa Clipper mission is pegged for launch in October 2024, from Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will send NASA’s Europa […]
Following reports that satellite internet company Viasat requested for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to halt SpaceX’s Starlink launches, the company’s request has been denied in a federal appeals court. A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Viasat’s plea to halt Starlink launches, according to a […]
After announcements that Elon Musk’s electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla is providing free Supercharging for European residents affected by the recent floods, the entrepreneur’s space travel company, SpaceX, has announced another initiative for those affected using its Starlink satellite internet. Starlink is used to provide internet for the regions impacted by the flood in my […]
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 — MarcoRP (!newsfeed) (@MarcoRPi1) […]
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 […]
