SpaceX employees are more likely to be injured while working at Starbase than any of its other manufacturing facilities, according to company worker safety records reviewed by TechCrunch. Starbase, a sprawling launch-and-manufacturing site that recently incorporated as its own Texas city, logged injury rates that were almost 6x higher than the average for comparable space vehicle-manufacturing outfits and nearly 3x …
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SpaceX employees are more likely to be injured while working at Starbase than any of its other manufacturing facilities, according to company worker safety records reviewed by TechCrunch. Starbase, a sprawling launch-and-manufacturing site that recently incorporated as its own Texas city, logged injury rates almost six times higher than the average for comparable space vehicle manufacturing outfits and nearly three …
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SpaceX’s patch for the KF-01 mission illustrates a Falcon 9 rocket with a batch of Kuiper broadband satellites inside its payload fairing. Credit: SpaceX Vulcan, Ariane 6, and New Glenn have all now launched successfully, but none of them have yet demonstrated the ability to launch more than twice a year. Vulcan and Ariane 6 appear to be on track …
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SpaceX sent 26 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Tuesday (July 15), after a launch from southern California. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:05 p.m. PDT (10:05 p.m. EDT or 0205 GMT July 18), escaping the fog and cloud cover blanketing Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The satellites (Group 15-2, according …
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Update (7:27 p.m.) – SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday night. It took off at 7:05 p.m. and carried 26 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. The first-stage booster successfully landed on a drone ship in the Pacific. ___ A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday night. …
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Amazon’s race to challenge SpaceX in orbit is getting a helping hand from its chief competitor: SpaceX, which will launch the next batch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet satellites skyward on Wednesday. A flock of 24 Kuiper internet satellites will ride aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket before dawn. The mission, dubbed KF-01, has a 27-minute launch window that opens …
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The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station are pictured inside SpaceX’s Hangar X at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui. Image: SpaceX The next four-person crew heading to the International Space Station is …
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SpaceX partners with Israel to launch Dror 1 satellite The Jerusalem Post Israel’s most-advanced communications satellite successfully launched into space The Times of Israel SpaceX launches Israeli satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now SpaceX launches mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit (video) Space Space Coast’s 60th launch of year also Falcon 9’s 500th successful SpaceX mission Phys.org Source link
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One Elon Musk business might be making a big investment in another. According to a Wall Street Journal report that cites investors close to SpaceX, the company has agreed to invest $2 billion in Musk’s AI startup xAI. The investment would reportedly be part of the $5 billion equity raise (along with another $5 billion in debt) that Morgan Stanley …
Read More »Israel’s most advanced communications satellite successfully launched by SpaceX The Times of Israel SpaceX launches Israeli satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now SpaceX launches mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit Space WATCH: IAI launches Dror-1 communications satellite with the help of SpaceX Falcon 9 The Jerusalem Post Israel’s most-advanced communications satellite to be launched in coming minutes The Times of …
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