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NASA is planning to fly another high-profile science mission using SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. Today (Nov. 25), the ESA said it has selected the Falcon Heavy to launch Dragonfly, a $3.35 billion mission that will explore Titan, Saturn’s massive moon, for habitability. Additionally, the
From Santa Barbara County’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, SpaceX launched a new set of its Starlink broadband satellites into orbit. 20 Starlink satellites, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities, were launched by the corporation using a Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX has previously launched rockets
On August 15, two Maxar Intelligence imaging satellites were launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida by a SpaceX Falcon 9. Liftoff of the Maxar-2 mission occurred at 9:00 a.m. Eastern. The company’s constellation of six high-resolution imaging satellites, called WorldView Legion, requires
Following an earlier this month setback, SpaceX has found its footing once more. On Sunday morning, July 28, the business launched two missions, launching clusters of its Starlink broadband satellites from coast to coast atop Falcon 9 rockets in less than five hours’ time. The
Polaris Dawn, the first commercial spacewalk mission, has stated that it will launch no sooner than July 31, 2024, therefore it appears to be back on track. The four-person crew of the Dragon spacecraft is expected to go farther from Earth than any mission in
This evening, May 31, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a new batch of its Starlink satellites into space. It is planned that a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the broadband craft would launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today. The launch window will
SpaceX said on Friday that Starship, the most potent rocket in the world, will conduct its next test flight on June 5. Subject to regulatory approval, the launch window from the company’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, opens at 7:00 am local time (1200 GMT).
SpaceX hopes to duplicate the last two back-to-back days of launches, which occurred just over a week ago. SpaceX added two more Florida rocket launches to the year’s rapidly increasing total when it launched Starlink satellites into orbit on the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday
A military spacecraft of unknown origin has taken launched using one of Elon Musk’s rockets. Using one of its Falcon Heavy rockets, the billionaire’s rocket business SpaceX launched the US Space Force’s top-secret X-37B spacecraft into orbit on Thursday. The mysterious spacecraft has been launched
On Saturday night, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base. At 7:25 p.m., the rocket took off and was visible for hundreds of kilometers. Twenty-one Starlink satellites, including six with Direct to Cell capabilities, had to be sent into orbit