News: SpaceX
Headlines from space publications, linked back to the original articles
- SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches first U.S. national security mission SpaceNews · 1 Nov 2022 A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off Nov. 1 at 9:41 a.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, carrying the U.S. Space Force USSF-44 mission to geostationary Earth orbit.
- SpaceX Falcon Heavy lofts USSF-44 on first flight in three years NASASpaceflight · 1 Nov 2022 The world’s most powerful operational rocket, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, took to the Florida skies for the first time in over three years November 1 for the USSF-44 mission, a US Space Force contracted flight with a classifi...
- SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket rolls to pad for Tuesday launch, dual booster landing Teslarati · 31 Oct 2022 A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket has rolled out to Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A for its first launch (and dual booster landing)...
- Falcon Heavy rocket on the launch pad for one of SpaceX’s most complex missions Spaceflight Now · 31 Oct 2022 The first Falcon Heavy rocket flight in more than three years is scheduled Tuesday from Florida’s Space Coast to begin SpaceX’s longest-duration launch mission to date, a roughly six-hour climb into geosynchronous orbit...
- NASA predicts first Starship orbital launch as soon as December SpaceNews · 31 Oct 2022 NASA expects SpaceX to be ready to attempt a first orbital flight of its Starship vehicle, an essential element in the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration plans, as soon as early December, pending tests and regulatory app...
- The world’s most powerful rocket finally returns after a 3-year absence Ars Technica · 31 Oct 2022 Was the Falcon Heavy a mistake by SpaceX?
- SpaceX still an option for future Amazon internet satellite launches, says Senior VP Teslarati · 31 Oct 2022 An Amazon executive says that the company could still call on SpaceX to launch some of its Project Kuiper internet satellites after...
- NASA sets October 2023 launch date for Psyche asteroid mission Spaceflight Now · 31 Oct 2022 NASA says the Psyche mission, a robotic asteroid explorer that missed a launch opportunity this year due to software testing problems, has been rescheduled for liftoff from Florida in October 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon Heav...
- SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy test-fired on launch pad in Florida Spaceflight Now · 28 Oct 2022 SpaceX fired up 27 engines on a Falcon Heavy rocket Thursday night at Kennedy Space Center, sending a rumble across the spaceport in a hold-down test-firing before a launch next week for the U.S. Space Force.
- SpaceX adds 53 more Starlink satellites to internet constellation Spaceflight Now · 28 Oct 2022 SpaceX fired a Falcon 9 rocket off a launching stand in California at sunset Thursday, producing a twilight sky show visible as far away as Texas as the mission delivered 53 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit.
- SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Starlink Group 4-31 from Vandenberg NASASpaceflight · 27 Oct 2022 SpaceX’s 49th Falcon 9 flight of 2022 has lifted off from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California with 53 Starlink satellites. The launch occurred on time on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 6:14 PM PDT (01:14 UTC on Frida...
- SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket passes static fire test three years in the making Teslarati · 27 Oct 2022 After knocking out some figurative cobwebs, SpaceX has test-fired a Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time since June 2019. Shortly before...
- New Starlink dish kit enables services ‘on any moving land object’ SpaceNews · 26 Oct 2022 SpaceX started taking pre-orders Oct. 25 for a flat panel antenna that enables land vehicles to use its Starlink broadband service while in motion.
- SpaceX becomes NASA’s second-largest vendor, surpassing Boeing Ars Technica · 26 Oct 2022 NASA obligated $2.04 billion to SpaceX in fiscal year 2022.
- NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 26th Resupply Launch to Space Station NASA · 25 Oct 2022 Media accreditation is open for SpaceX’s 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket is targeted no earlier than Friday...
- Polaris Dawn crewed mission could suffer additional delays SpaceNews · 25 Oct 2022 A billionaire-backed private astronaut mission on a SpaceX Crew Dragon has slipped from late this year to March 2023 and could be further delayed, in part for issues beyond its control.
- SpaceX bests Boeing to become NASA’s largest for-profit vendor Teslarati · 25 Oct 2022 Fourteen years after winning its first major NASA contract, data shared by Aviation Week reporter Irene Klotz shows that SpaceX has usurped...
- On eve of first launch, Relativity Space seeks to join SpaceX as “disruptor” Ars Technica · 24 Oct 2022 "Almost from the beginning of the company, I wanted to build a Falcon 9 competitor."
- SpaceX to launch Europe’s next deep space telescope, first asteroid orbiter Teslarati · 24 Oct 2022 On October 17th, a NASA official speaking at an Astrophysics Advisory Committee meeting revealed that the European Space Agency (ESA) had begun...
- SpaceX assembles Falcon Heavy rocket for first launch in 40 months Teslarati · 23 Oct 2022 SpaceX has assembled the fourth Falcon Heavy for the rocket’s first launch in 40 months. A photo shared by SpaceX on October...
- Video of Starlink terminal in Iran shared on Instagram Teslarati · 20 Oct 2022 A video of a Starlink terminal in Iran was recently shared on Instagram. In September, Elon Musk and the team at SpaceX...
- Another batch of Starlink satellites launch from Cape Canaveral Spaceflight Now · 20 Oct 2022 Fifty-four Starlink internet satellites fastened to a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, continuing SpaceX’s deployments for a broadband network reaching into an ever-expanding market linking rural...
- SpaceX launches the 3,500th Starlink satellite NASASpaceflight · 20 Oct 2022 SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) on Thursday. Liftoff occurred at 10:50 AM EDT (14:50 UTC) on Oct. 20 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Stati...
- SpaceX rolls out Starship, stacks world’s largest rocket, and aces Starlink launch hours apart Teslarati · 20 Oct 2022 In 15 hours, SpaceX has rolled a new Starship to its South Texas launch and test facilities, reassembled the world’s largest rocket,...
- SpaceX ready for 31st Starlink launch of 2022 Teslarati · 19 Oct 2022 SpaceX is on track to launch its 30th Starlink mission of 2022 later this morning. No earlier than (NET) 10:50 am EDT...
- Starlink taking preorders for high-speed private jet broadband service SpaceNews · 19 Oct 2022 SpaceX started accepting preorders Tuesday from high-flying private jet owners willing to pay a hefty price to receive high-speed Starlink services in the air.
- SpaceX slashes base price of smallsat rideshare program, adds “Plates” Teslarati · 19 Oct 2022 SpaceX has rolled out an upgraded version of its Rideshare program that will allow even more small satellite operators to send their...
- Pentagon: It’s up to SpaceX to decide what to do about Starlink in Ukraine SpaceNews · 18 Oct 2022 Pentagon press secretary Pat Ryder said Oct. 18 DoD would not comment on Elon Musk's recent tweets about Starlink services in Ukraine
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 to Discuss Mission After Returning to Earth NASA · 18 Oct 2022 Astronauts of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission, consisting of crew members from the agency as well as ESA (European Space Agency), will answer questions about their recent mission aboard the International Space Station durin...
- Falcon 9 leading candidate to launch European science mission SpaceNews · 18 Oct 2022 A European astrophysics spacecraft stranded when Russia cut off access to Soyuz launch vehicles may instead fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA officials said Oct. 17.
- European spacecraft converge on the US for rides on SpaceX rockets Teslarati · 17 Oct 2022 Thanks in large part to delays suffered by Arianespace’s next-generation Ariane 6 rocket, a small fleet of European satellites are simultaneously converging...
- Starship set for full stack fueling test ahead of static fire campaign NASASpaceflight · 16 Oct 2022 With a fully stacked Starship system on the launchpad at Starbase, SpaceX is preparing for the next round of tests for its fully reusable launch system ahead of its debut orbital launch attempt as soon as later this year...
- SpaceX launches European TV broadcasting satellite Spaceflight Now · 15 Oct 2022 An Airbus-built communications satellite rocketed into orbit early Saturday from Cape Canaveral on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher, bound for a high-altitude perch in geostationary orbit to beam hundreds of TV and radi...
- DoD eyeing options to provide satcom in Ukraine as it continues talks with SpaceX SpaceNews · 15 Oct 2022 The Pentagon is looking at options to provide satellite communications services for Ukraine’s military forces following Elon Musk’s warning that SpaceX will suspend Starlink internet services in Ukraine unless the U.S. g...
- Crew-4 returns to Earth SpaceNews · 14 Oct 2022 SpaceX completed its fourth operational commercial crew mission to the International Space Station Oct. 14 with the safe return of a Crew Dragon spacecraft with four American and European astronauts on board.
- SpaceX launch to deploy first in new generation of Airbus-built satellites Spaceflight Now · 14 Oct 2022 The first in a new line of Airbus-built communications satellites is stowed for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Friday night from Cape Canaveral, ready for a mission to beam hundreds of TV channels to Eutelsat custome...
- NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Astronauts Safely Splash Down in Atlantic NASA · 14 Oct 2022 NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts aboard the Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down Friday off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station....
- Since Crew Dragon’s debut, SpaceX has flown more astronauts than anyone Ars Technica · 14 Oct 2022 "Thank you for an incredible ride up to orbit and an incredible ride home."
- SpaceX Crew-4 returns to Earth with Atlantic splashdown NASASpaceflight · 14 Oct 2022 After living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for close to six months, Crew-4 and its crew of international astronauts have undocked from the orbiting laboratory and made their return to Earth.
- Hotbird-13F launches aboard Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral NASASpaceflight · 14 Oct 2022 The Eutelsat Hotbird-13F geostationary communications satellite launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Falcon 9 booster 1069-3, which had flown the CRS-24 and Starlink 4-23 missions, launched...