The SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday. It brought around 5,800 pounds of supplies and payloads, including a NASA climate instrument to be mounted outside the ISS. The robotic capsule had lifted off atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday….
US, Russian Astronauts Will Swap Seats on Rockets Again
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA astronauts will go back to riding Russian rockets under an agreement announced Friday, and Russian cosmonauts will catch lifts to the International Space Station with SpaceX beginning this fall. The agreement ensures that the space station will always have at least one American and Russian on board to keep both sides of…
Burned Twitter Deal Bankers See Silver Lining in Musk’s Startups
Wall Street’s top investment banks that stand to lose lucrative fees from Elon Musk abandoning his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc. hope the start-ups backed by the world’s richest person will make up for the lost business. Musk has been one of Wall Street’s biggest patrons, doling out nearly $500 million in fees to…
SpaceX Starship Booster ‘Probably’ Returning to Pad After Explosion—Elon Musk
WASHINGTON—The Starship rocket booster SpaceX plans to use for an inaugural flight to orbit will “probably” return to its launch mount in Texas next week following a testing explosion on Monday, the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, told Reuters. “Damage is minor, but booster will be transferred back to the high bay for inspections, returning…
Pentagon Wants Elon Musk to Drop Soldiers Into Conflict From Space
June 22, 2022
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The Pentagon is collaborating with Elon Musk’s company SpaceX to investigate the possibility of using the company’s rockets to drop troops and equipment into global flashpoints. The military’s work with the private space company covers a wide array of research initiatives, according to a partially redacted research agreement, originally obtained by The Intercept via a…
SpaceX Rocket Launches With Globalstar Satellite
Elon Musk’s SpaceX corporation launched a new satellite—Globalstar FM15—in the early hours of Sunday from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Like other SpaceX ventures, the launch vehicle supporting the mission—Falcon 9—returned to Earth shortly after launch, successfully landing on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, which is stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Globalstar FM15 is now…
SpaceX Launches New Batch of Starlink Satellites
SpaceX launched a new batch of 53 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Friday—the first of three planned launches in three days for the company. The satellites were deployed to low-earth orbit after being carried on the company’s two-stage Falcon 9 rocket for its record 13th launch. After stage separation, the rocket’s first stage returned…
SpaceX Plans Weekend Launches From California, Florida
June 16, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is planning three flights this weekend from California and Florida. The first flight is set to launch shortly after noon on June 17 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket will deploy 53 more Starlink internet satellites. The second flight will follow the next day…
SpaceX Protests Viasat-Inmarsat Merger Plans to US FCC
WASHINGTON—SpaceX’s satellite unit on Monday protested Viasat’s proposed acquisition of Inmarsat to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), alleging the rival satellite operator had violated commission rules and should not be granted approval to control another company’s assets. SpaceX, which has launched some 2,600 satellites to space for its Starlink internet constellation, called on the…
Elon Musk’s Starship Must Take Over 75 Environmental Actions Before Its Granted Permission to Launch: FAA
June 13, 2022
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A U.S. federal agency announced on Monday that it would require SpaceX to take 75 environmental actions before permitting its Starship-Super Heavy program to launch. The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will require SpaceX to take actions like monitoring plants and wildlife for launch impacts, removing launch debris from sensitive habitats in the surrounding Texas…
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