A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 8-5 mission on June 4, 2024. The mission coincided with the 14th anniversary of the first Falcon 9 launch in 2010. Image: Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday night, 14 years to … Read more
The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been seen in the skies over Texas SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Monday night. The launch was intended to send 23 Starlink satellites into orbit. Fox – 4 News Anyone up for dinner and a rocket launch? A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket … Read more
SpaceX’s upcoming Starship megarocket officially has a license to fly. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday (June 4) issued a launch license to SpaceX for its Starship Flight 4 test mission, which is currently scheduled to lift off no earlier than Thursday, June 6, from the Starbase facility of the company near Boca Chica. … Read more
The story of NASA’s commercial crew program, NASA’s bold attempt a decade ago to outsource human spaceflight to a pair of companies, is a story of contrasts—of an unlikely rise to dominance for one and an equally unlikely fall from grace for another. . SpaceX has emerged as the world’s leading space company, leveraging its … Read more