SpaceX is nine full-scale test launches into developing its enormous, nearly 400-feet-tall Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. Over the last two and a half years, we’ve seen over half a dozen spectacular explosions. Two launches earlier this year sent massive streaks of debris hurtling over the Turks and Caicos Islands, prompting airspace closures. Its most recent test in …
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NASA’s TRACERS mission blasted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday (July 23), after a 24-hour delay caused by airspace concerns. TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) is composed of twin satellites that will study how surges in the solar wind trigger magnetic reconnection in Earth‘s magnetosphere; such reconnection leads to charged particles being funneled down …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two powerful communications satellites today (July 22), then aced its landing on a ship at sea. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 5:12 p.m. EDT (2112 GMT), carrying SES’ O3b mPOWER 9 and 10 satellites toward medium Earth orbit (MEO), about 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) above …
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(Bloomberg) — There’s a new warning tucked into the tender offer for Elon Musk’s SpaceX: The billionaire may not be done with politics just yet. Most Read from Bloomberg Musk previously served as senior adviser to President Donald Trump “in connection with the Department of Government Efficiency and may in the future serve in similar roles and devote significant time …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned launch of SES’ ninth and tenth O3b mPOWER satellites. Image: SpaceX Update July 22, 2:50 p.m. EDT: Added updated weather data. SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, July 22, for the launch of two satellites to medium Earth orbit, following a …
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(Reuters) -Elon Musk, who most recently served as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, may return to U.S. politics, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing SpaceX documents and people familiar with the content. The company added the language laying out such “risk factors” in paperwork sent to investors discussing a tender offer, according to Bloomberg. It was the first …
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SpaceX aborted the launch of two communications satellites just before liftoff on Monday evening (July 21). A Falcon 9 rocket topped with two of SES’ O3b mPOWER internet spacecraft was set to launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:27 p.m. EDT (2127 GMT) on Monday. But it didn’t quite happen: SpaceX called an abort just 11 seconds …
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SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday, and area residents may hear a sonic boom. The 57-minute launch window opens at 11:13 a.m. A livestream of the launch is scheduled to begin about 15 minutes before liftoff. About eight minutes after liftoff, SpaceX will aim to land the rocket’s first stage booster …
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In the bitter fallout from the breakup of the year, President Donald Trump threatened to cancel government contracts held with Elon Musk and his SpaceX operations. Now that he’s in the “find out” stage, he’s discovering it’s not as easy as he thought. Trump administration staffers tasked with reviewing SpaceX’s government contracts believe that terminating them would have a serious …
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