An artist’s rendering shows SpaceX’s Starship rocket ship on the moon. (SpaceX illustration) NASA has suspended its contract with SpaceX to bring astronauts back to the moon pending the first outcome of a lawsuit from Blue Origin. The voluntary stay ends on November 1, two weeks after the hearing on the case, according to a … Read more
SpaceX has reached another major milestone in its fully reusable Starship launch system: it has stacked the Starship spacecraft itself on a prototype of its Super Heavy Booster, which itself is loaded with a full complement of 29 Raptor rocket engines, and which Starship has on top six itself. The stacked spacecraft now represents the … Read more
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s long-awaited mission to Europe, Jupiter’s icy moon, which may have the conditions to support life. The agency has been planning to send a probe to the Jupiter moon for years and completed its plans in 2019. In its announcement, NASA said the Europa Clipper spacecraft is scheduled … Read more
SpaceX successfully launched an additional 52 Starlink Internet broadband satellites into orbit on Saturday, less than a week after the last batch was shipped. A small satellite from the startup Capella Space and a Tyvak observation satellite also made a trip to the launch, which took off on Saturday evening from the Kennedy Space Center … Read more
In darkness, four astronauts splashed down early Sunday morning in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Fla. That marked a successful end of a mission for NASA led by a private company, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, to take its astronauts to and from the International Space Station. It was the first of what the space … Read more
SpaceX has put another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit – meaning it has sent a total of 180 satellites to join its 1,000-plus constellation in the past two weeks alone. Today’s launch also set a record for SpaceX for its Falcon 9 rocket reusability program, as it was the ninth flight and landing for this … Read more