SpaceX’s stalwart Falcon 9 rocket, which powers not only satellite launches but also astronauts’ journeys into orbit, suffered a rare and troubling malfunction Thursday night while trying to pull a group of internet satellites into orbit. The ordeal prompted federal regulators to ground the rocket, which has become a cornerstone of the United States and… Read More »
SpaceX’s plans to launch its Starship-Super Heavy two-stage rocket 44 times a year from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are facing criticism from its two main rivals, United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. The Starship The vehicle is the world’s largest rocket. Its two stages are SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster rocket… Read More »
SpaceX sent another crew of four to the International Space Station tonight (March 3). A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 10:53 PM EST tonight (0353 GMT, March 4) with four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-8 mission. . The rocket’s two stages separated… Read More »
Three NASA astronauts and their Russian cosmonaut teammates flew to Kennedy Space Center on Sunday to prepare for launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Friday, kicking off a planned six-month tour of duty aboard the International Space Station. Crew 8 commander flies from Johnson Space Center in Houston Matthew Dominickco-pilot Michael Barratt, Jeanette… Read More »
A potentially history-making special lunar mission is underway. Odysseus, the robotic lunar lander built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida early this morning (February 15). If all goes as planned, Odysseus will land near the Moon’s south pole on February… Read More »
Lighting up the deep sky overnight, a Falcon 9 rocket roared away from Florida early Thursday, supporting a commercially built robotic lander flying to the moon. If successful, it will be the first American spacecraft to reach the lunar surface in more than 50 years. It was SpaceX’s second flight in less than eight hours,… Read More »
SpaceX will launch a custom-built lunar lander to the moon for the company Intuitive Machines on February 14, and if you want to know where and when it will lift off, we’ve got you covered. The IM-1 mission will launch Intuitive Machines’ first Nova-C spacecraft to the moon from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida… Read More »
SpaceX has prepared a Falcon 9 rocket for launch early Wednesday to send a commercially built robotic lander to the Moon, the first targeted landing near the Moon’s south pole, where NASA’s Artemis astronauts plan to walk within a few years. The flight came just five weeks after another US company’s failed attempt to land… Read More »
The US military’s X-37B space plane has finally begun its latest secret mission. The robotic X-37B lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on Thursday night, December 28, at 8:07 pm EST (0107 GMT, December 29) after weeks of delays. SpaceX’s first two attempts to launch… Read More »
A powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket vaulted over a torrent of burning exhaust from Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, launching its sky-lighting twin-headed launch vehicle into orbit to launch a pilotless X-37B spaceplane into orbit for a secret, long-duration military mission. At the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, another team of SpaceX engineers was… Read More »