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Watch SpaceX’s Ax-3 astronaut mission arrive at ISS early Jan. 20
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early Saturday with four astronauts of the private Ax-3 mission aboard to begin a two-week stay on the orbiting laboratory.Ax-3 launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday (Jan. 18), kicking off a roughly 36-hour orbital pursuit. That chase ended today (Jan. 20)
January 19, 2024
Watch SpaceX’s Crew-3 astronauts return home from International Space Station early Friday
Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts will return to Earth before dawn on Friday (May 6) and you can watch it happen live online.The SpaceX Dragon capsule Endurance is poised to splash down off the coast of Florida at 12:43 a.m. EDT (0443 GMT) to wrap up a six-month mission to the…
May 5, 2022
Elon Musk says SpaceX’s Starlink won’t block Russian news sources ‘unless at gunpoint’
Home News Tech SpaceX CEO Elon Musk waves during an event at his company's Starbase facility in South Texas on Feb. 10, 2022. (Image credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Saturday that his company won't block access to Russian media sources on its Starlink internet system despite requests from some…
March 5, 2022
SpaceX’s new Starship video animation is Tron meets Blade Runner in space
Home News Spaceflight A stunning SpaceX animation released Thursday (Feb. 10) shows the Starship system on a future voyage to Mars.SpaceX CEO Elon Musk released the five-minute video during the program's first major update since 2019. He spoke of the fully stacked Starship ready for an orbital trip in (he expects) later 2022 and his…
February 11, 2022
SpaceX’s next Starlink mission may fly Wednesday, setting up rocket launch doubleheader
Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a new batch of Starlink internet satellites is seen atop Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center (right) in this photo taken Jan. 31. At left, another Falcon 9 that launched an Italian satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Jan. 31 is visible. (Image…
February 1, 2022
SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Leave Streaks in Asteroid-Hunting Telescope’s Images
A prime ground-based observatory that scans the sky for exploding stars and dangerous near-Earth asteroids is struggling with disruptive light streaks from SpaceX's Starlink internet satellite constellation, a new study revealed. The observatory, called the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), opened its telescope eye in California in 2017. Scanning the entire sky every two days, the observatory looks…
January 20, 2022
File photo of a stack of Starlink satellites before a previous mission.. Credit: SpaceXSpaceX plans to kick off its 2022 launch schedule with a Falcon 9 rocket flight Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with the company’s next group of Starlink internet satellites. In a change from previous Starlink missions, the Falcon 9 rocket will…
SpaceX’s final launch of the year set for early Tuesday, weather permitting
A Falcon 9 rocket emerges from SpaceX’s hangar at Kenned Space Center for the quarter-mile trip up the ramp to launch pad 39A. Credit: SpaceXSpaceX’s 31st and final Falcon 9 launch of the year is scheduled to take off early Tuesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, weather permitting, with a Dragon cargo ship carrying more…
December 20, 2021
How to watch SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon depart space station on Thursday
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon is about to depart the International Space Station (ISS) and you can watch the entire event live online. The spacecraft docked with the station’s Harmony module on August 30, bringing with it vital supplies for the crew, as well as a raft of science experiments for them to work on. SpaceX’s…
September 30, 2021