Category: SpaceX

SpaceX Calls Off First Launch Attempt of Giant New Rocket

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas—SpaceX called off its first launch attempt of its giant rocket on Monday. Elon Musk and his company had planned to launch the nearly 400-foot Starship rocket from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. SpaceX postponed the launch because of a problem with the first-stage booster. No people or…


FAA Gives OK for SpaceX’s Starship Test Flight From Texas

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX has cleared the final hurdle for launching its new giant Starship from Texas as early as next week on a first test flight. The Federal Aviation Administration issued the long-awaited license on Friday. SpaceX announced that Starship—the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket—could soar as soon as Monday. No people or satellites…


Musk Says SpaceX Starship Rocket Launch Slipping to Later in April

WASHINGTON—A key SpaceX Starship Super Heavy rocket launch test now is likely to take place later this month rather than sometime this week, the space company’s CEO Elon Musk said on Monday. SpaceX envisions Starship as a fully reusable transportation system to carry astronauts and cargo to Earth orbit, the moon, Mars, and beyond. The…


4 Astronauts Fly SpaceX Back Home, End 5-month Mission

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Four space station astronauts returned to Earth late Saturday after a quick SpaceX flight home. Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast near Tampa. The U.S.–Russian–Japanese crew spent five months at the International Space Station, arriving last October. Besides dodging space junk, the astronauts had to…


New Crew From US, Russia and UAE Arrives at Space Station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A new crew arrived at the International Space Station on Friday for a six-month mission, after overcoming trouble with one of the capsule’s docking hooks. The SpaceX capsule and its four astronauts had to wait 65 feet (20 meters) from the orbiting lab, as flight controllers in California scrambled to come up with…


US, Russia, UAE Astronauts Head to International Space Station on SpaceX Rocket

SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. The launch included Russians and Americans, as well as an astronaut from an Arab nation, who will be there for several months. The Falcon rocket took off from Kennedy Space Center on its six-month mission shortly after midnight on Mar. 2. The launch…


FAA Proposes $175,000 Penalty on SpaceX for Not Complying With Safety Rules

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking to impose a penalty on Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX following its failure to provide collision avoidance data before a launch last year. A $175,000 civil penalty has been proposed against SpaceX because the company did not submit launch collision trajectory data to the agency prior…


Elon Musk Says to Attempt Starship Launch in March

SpaceX may attempt a Starship rocket system launch in March, its billionaire chief Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. “If remaining tests go well, we will attempt a Starship launch next month,” Musk said, in a response to a user’s tweet about Starship. Musk had in January said that there was a “real…


LIVE NOW: SpaceX Launches Next Batch of Starlink Satellites

SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 490 Starlink satellites and D-Orbit’s ION SCV009 Eclectic Elena into low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 11:15 a.m. ET on Jan. 31. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …


SpaceX Launches Next Batch of Starlink Satellites

SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of 490 Starlink satellites and D-Orbit’s ION SCV009 Eclectic Elena into low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 11:15 a.m. ET on Jan. 31. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. …