Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Saturday said that SpaceX will continue funding Starlink internet service in war-torn Ukraine. A tweet from Musk’s verified account posted said, “The hell with it … even though Starlink is still losing money & other companies are getting billions of taxpayer $, we’ll just keep […]
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SpaceX heads off for international space station with US, Russian, Japanese astronauts
Billionaire tycoon Elon Musk-led Space X blasted off from Florida on Wednesday and headed for the International Space Station (ISS). The mission included a Russian cosmonaut and a Japanese and two American astronauts. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the […]
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SpaceX fires several employees who criticised CEO Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has fired several employees involved in writing an open letter that was critical of the billionaire’s public behaviour, according to a media report. SpaceX, the private rocket company in a statement on Thursday said that it fired employees who helped write and distribute an open letter criticizing the behaviour […]
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Geomagnetic storm destroys 40 Starlink satellites, SpaceX says no risk to Earth
A geomagnetic storm has knocked 40 SpaceX satellites on February 4, after they were launched to a low deployment orbit, 130 miles above Earth. Dramatic visuals of the space debris are circulating on the internet of a satellite that “lived fast and died very young,” astronomy news website Space.com reported. American aerospace manufacturer […]
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SpaceX to conduct ‘humanity’s first planetary defence test’ to redirect asteroid
SpaceX is planning to conduct humanity’s first planetary defence test to redirect an asteroid through Falcon 9’s launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission on Tuesday (local time). “DART is humanity’s first planetary defence test mission to see if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course, should […]
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SpaceX mission led by Indian-origin astronaut docks with International Space Station
A new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts including Indian origin Raja Chari to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the company’s Crew-3 mission has docked successfully at the orbiting lab on Thursday, the company said. NASA astronauts Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer arrived at the International Space Station at 6:32 pm […]
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Elon Musk taunts Joe Biden as ‘sleeping’ for ignoring SpaceX success
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a pot shot at President Joe Biden on Sunday, the day after his private spaceflight, SpaceX, completed a historic mission as the first all-civilian flight crew. One of Musk’s followers on Twitter asked him, “The President of the United States has refused to even acknowledge […]
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SpaceX launches spaceship with first-ever fully civilian crew on board
American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX on Thursday launched the Falcon 9 carrier rocket that placed the Crew Dragon spaceship into orbit. This was the first-ever fully civilian crew mission dubbed as Inspiration4. The launch took place at 00:03 GMT from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. “Dragon and the @inspiration4x astronauts are now officially in space! Dragon will […]
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SpaceX cargo mission rescheduled for Sunday over bad weather – NASA
The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft was delayed by one day over poor weather conditions, NASA said on Saturday. “Due to weather, today’s @SpaceX cargo mission is postponed,” the space agency wrote on Twitter. The next opportunity to launch the CRS-23 mission is on Sunday, at 07:14 GMT. It will deliver […]
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SpaceX to land Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030, says Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be landing its Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030, the billionaire entrepreneur said in a tweet on Tuesday. The private space company had raised about $850 million in equity financing in February even as a prototype of its Starship rocket exploded during a landing attempt […]
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SpaceX rocket explodes after landing in test flight
An unmanned SpaceX’s Starship prototype on Wednesday exploded on the ground shortly after landing in a test flight, according to a SpaceX video online. After the flight, flames were seen to come out from the bottom of the Starship rocket Serial Number 10, or SN10, and it exploded minutes after landing.
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SpaceX successfully tests Starship SN10 rocket after 2 failed attemp
SpaceX successfully tested its Starship SN10 prototype rocket after two recent failed attempts. The rocket prototype was launched on Wednesday to an altitude of 10,000 kilometers and then landed back on the ground. However, the rocket exploded about six minutes after landing. The test launch is deemed successful because the goal was to gather information on how the flaps […]
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SpaceX Delays Launch of Falcon 9 Carrier Rocket With Starlink Satellites by a Day
SpaceX has cancelled the planned launch of a Falcon 9 carrier rocket with 60 Starlink satellites. “Auto-abort at T-1:24 ahead of tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink; next launch opportunity is tomorrow, March 1 at 8:15 p.m. EST [03:15 GMT on Tuesday],” SpaceX said on Twitter on Sunday. The company […]
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SpaceX Starship prototype rocket explodes on landing after test launch
A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded during a landing attempt minutes after a high-altitude experimental launch from Boca Chica, Texas, yesterday, in a repeat of an accident that destroyed a previous test rocket. The Starship SN9 that blew up on its final descent, like the SN8 before it, was […]
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SpaceX aims to launch ‘all-civilian’ trip into orbit
SpaceX announced yesterday it’s aiming to launch this year the first all-civilian mission into Earth’s orbit, led by a tech billionaire who plans to raffle off one of the spots aboard the craft. Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is to be joined by three other novice astronauts for a multi-day journey into […]