We’re into the second of a trio of SpaceX launches to close out 2021, with the company’s Falcon 9 rocket set to launch the Turksat 5B mission at 7:58PM PT/10:58PM ET (3:58 UTC) on Saturday evening. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in […]
According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday, the company plans to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into rocket fuel. “SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel. Please join if interested,” said Musk, then adding, “will also be important for […]
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Friday announced it intends to engage SpaceX for up to three additional crew flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under its Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract. The decision comes after NASA issued a request for information to American companies capable of providing safe, reliable, […]
Is SpaceX facing production issues with its Raptor engine line for its Starship? That’s what an apparently obtained email details, reportedly sent to employees by CEO Elon Musk, as shared by Space Explored. The email from Musk to employees says the Raptor production line crisis is now “much worse than it had seemed a few […]
SpaceX is less than an hour away from its 10:21 p.m. PST (6:21 UTC on November 24) Falcon 9 launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This will be the third launch for this particular Falcon 9 booster, B1063, […]
SpaceX has unveiled a new Starlink satellite dish, sporting a new rectangular design for customers in the United States. The company’s website is showing the new design for visitors showing U.S. IP addresses. Canadian visitors, for example, are still seeing the old design, as the new dish is not available outside the U.S. yet. This […]
SpaceX and NASA are set to launch its Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). You can watch the live video of tonight’s launch, set for 6:03pm PT/9:03pm ET, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This will be SpaceX Dragon’s third long duration crew mission to the ISS, […]
NASA announced on Tuesday its human lunar mission has been delayed from 2024 to 2025. The major reason? Litigation from Blue Origin, which fought NASA for awarding the lunar contract to SpaceX. Back in August, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sued NASA over awarding Elon Musk’s SpaceX a lunar contract to send humans back to the […]
After a couple of delays, SpaceX and NASA are set to bring back Dragon and its Crew-2 astronauts from the International Space Station. Dragon just recently autonomously undocked from the ISS and is set to come back to Earth 8 hours later and splashdown off the coast of Florida. Separation confirmed. Dragon will now perform […]
After Jeff Bezos’s company Blue Origin lodged a lawsuit against NASA over its granting SpaceX a 2024 moon outpost contract, the company has officially been defeated in a Federal court, a new report shows. Blue Origin lost a court battle with NASA over the awarding of SpaceX with the 2024 moon contract, according to CNBC. […]
SpaceX Dragon and the Inspiration4 crew is returning to Earth and has just successfully deployed its four main parachutes! “After three days on-orbit, Dragon and the Inspiration4 crew – the world’s first all-civilian mission to orbit – will return to Earth on September 18, splashing down at approximately 7:06 p.m. EDT in the Atlantic Ocean off the […]
Image credit: @johnkrausphotos SpaceX made history tonight, as it sent the first all-civilian crew into orbit aboard its Dragon capsule. The Inspiration4 mission was sent into space by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s 39A launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Check out the liftoff below: Liftoff of @Inspiration4X! Go Falcon 9! Go Dragon! […]
Starlink on Monday evening launched its first west coast Starlink satellite mission, with its Falcon 9 rocket sending the 16th Starlink mission of the year, and 32nd to date overall, into orbit. Check out the launch below of Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 4E, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This is booster […]
At approximately 12:14 a.m. PDT today, a Falcon 9 booster launched a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft carrying 4,800 pounds (2,200 kilograms) of supplies on a trajectory to the International Space Station (ISS) in SpaceX’s 23rd commercial resupply mission to the ISS. Weather is 80% favorable for this morning’s launch. Launch webcast begins in ~15 minutes […]
SpaceX’s 23rd cargo resupply to the International Space Station (ISS), which was scheduled for Saturday, August 28 at 3:37 a.m. ET, has been called off due to unfavorable launch weather. T-1 hour until Falcon 9 launch of Dragon. Team is keeping an eye on weather, which is 40% favorable → https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK — SpaceX (@SpaceX) August […]
