Tag: SpaceX
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SpaceX Launches Another 22 Starlink Satellites, Reaching 2,600 for 2025
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink broadband satellites on Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, bringing the total number of Starlink satellites launched in 2025 to 2,600. The Starlink 11-14 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at 1:13 p.m. PST (4:13 p.m. EST / 2113 UTC) on a Falcon 9…
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SpaceX Breaks Annual Launch Record with Falcon 9 Mission Carrying 29 Starlink Satellites
SpaceX extended its annual launch record on Tuesday with the successful deployment of 29 Starlink satellites, underscoring the company’s growing lead in the commercial spaceflight industry. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 8:31 p.m. EST on Nov. 5 (0131 GMT on Nov. 6) from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in…
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Trump Re-Nominates Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator After Earlier Withdrawal
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is re-nominating private astronaut and entrepreneur Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, five months after Isaacman’s initial nomination was withdrawn following a dispute between Trump and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. The decision restores the billionaire e-commerce executive as Trump’s pick to head the U.S. space agency at a…
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NASA’s Artemis 2 Moon Flyby on Track for April Launch, Potentially February
NASA officials said on Tuesday that Artemis 2, the first crewed flight in the agency’s Artemis program, is on schedule for an April launch, with the possibility of moving the date up to February. The 10-day mission will see four astronauts fly around the moon and return to Earth, serving as a precursor to the…
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China Delays Shenzhou-20 Return Mission After Possible Space Debris Impact
China’s Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft has delayed its planned return to Earth after the vessel was possibly struck by tiny fragments of space debris, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Wednesday. The agency said impact analysis and risk assessments were underway, but did not provide a new timeline for the spacecraft’s return, which had…
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Vast completes Haven-1 structural testing, launches pathfinder mission
With NASA set to decommission the International Space Station (ISS) in 2030, Vast is racing to launch the first commercial space station, which it hopes will ultimately replace the ISS. The company has now completed an important milestone in the production of its first space station. Vast is a space station company founded in 2021…
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Launch Roundup: Ariane 6 flies, Atlas V and New Glenn both scrub during busy week
This week’s launch manifest featured twelve missions launching on nine different rockets, including the first attempt of the second launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. This roundup covers an eight-day period, from Monday, Nov. 3, to Monday, Nov. 10. In addition to four Falcon 9 missions from SpaceX, an Ariane 62, New Glenn, Chang…
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Commercial space station demo, data center precursor launch on SpaceX Bandwagon-4 mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Bandwagon-4 ride share mission to a mid-inclination orbit. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight Now An Nvidia-backed data center demo, a testbed for Vast’s future commercial space station and artificial intelligence-powered weather satellites were…
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Starship Block 3 and HLS: The path to get back to the Moon
Amid numerous questions about whether SpaceX can have the Human Landing System (HLS) variant of Starship ready in time for Artemis 3, the company released a significant amount of information on its progress with HLS and Starship in relation to the Artemis Program. Starship Human Landing System (HLS) SpaceX recently released an update regarding Starship…
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Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this”
As artificial intelligence drives the need for vastly more computing storage and processing power, interest in space-based data centers has spiked. Although several startup companies, such as Starcloud, have begun to address this problem, the idea has also attracted the interest of tech barons. In May, it emerged that former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt…