The Wall Street Journal reported that executives at Elon Musk‘s companies worry about his drug use. At SpaceX, the outlet reported execs privately worried Musk was high during an “unhinged” staff meeting. Per The Journal, Musk was an hour late and rambled for 15 minutes before SpaceX’s president took over. After Elon Musk arrived nearly an […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -SpaceX on Thursday sued a U.S. labor board that had accused the rocket and satellite maker of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction and embarrassment.” SpaceX in the lawsuit filed in Brownsville, Texas federal court claims the structure of the National […]
SpaceX is poised to launch a Swedish broadband satellite tonight (Jan. 3) on the company’s second mission of 2024, and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Ovzon 3 satellite is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight during a 10-minute window that opens at […]
Surprise, surprise: SpaceX plans to set more spaceflight records this year. Elon Musk‘s company launched 96 orbital missions in 2023, a big jump from its previous high of 61, which was set a year earlier. And SpaceX is planning another big leap in 2024, one that will take it well above the century mark. “As […]
Shortly after sunset Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to propel off the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and lift Ovzon 3 — the first privately funded and developed Swedish geostationary broadband-internet satellite — into orbit. “It’s also the most powerful GEO satellite ever to be put into orbit covering 1/3 […]
SpaceX closed out 2023 with a fiery double test of its next Starship megarocket booster and spacecraft on Friday (Sept. 29), sharing some stunning videos of both vehicles in the process. The dual test of engines on the giant Starship and Super Heavy rocket stages at SpaceX’s Starbase proving ground in Boca Chica, Texas on […]
Dec. 29—SpaceX managed to get two Starship orbital launch attempts under its belt in 2023, the first on April 20 and the second nearly seven months later on Nov. 18, both launching from the company’s Starbase rocket production and testing complex at Boca Chica. Both flights ended in the six-engine Starship and 33-engine Super Heavy […]
SpaceX capped off 2023 with not one but two rocket launches, bringing its total number of blast-offs to 98 in 2023. The first SpaceX mission to take to the skies Thursday (Dec. 28) was a Falcon Heavy rocket carrying the U.S. military’s secretive X-37B space plane, designed mission USSF-52. That blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy […]
NASA astronauts tested SpaceX’s elevator concept for the Artemis lunar lander that will bring humans back to the surface of the moon as early as 2025. SpaceX was selected to build the spacecraft that NASA will use for future Artemis program missions to the moon. The company’s Starship human landing system (HLS) will carry two […]
The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane has embarked on its latest clandestine mission at last. The robotic X-37B lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida Thursday night (Dec. 28) at 8:07 p.m. EST (0107 GMT on Dec. 29) after weeks of delays. SpaceX first two attempts […]
Kicking off a sky-lighting launch doubleheader, a powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket vaulted away from the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday atop a torrent of flaming exhaust to put an unpiloted X-37B spaceplane into orbit for a classified, long-duration military mission. At the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, another team of SpaceX engineers was […]
SpaceX is launching its latest batch of satellites today (Dec. 28) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, and you can watch it live for free. The 23 Starlink broadband proving spacecraft will be carried to low Earth orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket with a launch window commencing at 11:01 p.m. EST Thursday (0401 GMT […]