SpaceX Falcon 9 Successfully Launches Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Satellite for NASA
Watch Launch Replay NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is the agency’s first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays. Polarized light is made up of electric fields that vibrate in a single direction—and IXPE’s state-of-the-art X-ray vision will help scientists study the spin of black holes, the magnetic fields of pulsars, and other […]
SpaceX test-fires Falcon 9 rocket for Starlink launch
Just ten hours after launching a crew capsule from a nearby pad, SpaceX ignited the main engines on a reused Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday morning for a brief test-firing ahead of a planned liftoff Friday to begin a new phase of deploying the company’s Starlink satellite internet network.
Getting to the Bottom of Inspiration 4
From start to finish, the mission was flush with success…until an unplanned accident caused the onboard toilet to malfunction. Forcing the crew to adapt in ways that lumped them in a unique category of astronauts.
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The first all-civilian mission to orbit
SpaceX shares ethereal video of Falcon 9 rocket touchdown in the dark
SpaceX has shared a short video of a Falcon 9 rocket booster returning to Earth and landing on a ship.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is dominating global orbital launches in 2021
Relative to any other country, space agency, or company, SpaceX led the world in orbital launches for the first half of 2021 – the first time in history a single company has managed that feat.
SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites from Florida
SpaceX launched 60 more Starlink broadband communications satellites from Florida on Wednesday afternoon.
Weather looks good for SpaceX Starlink launch this week
Weather conditions around Cape Canaveral Space Force Station should be favorable for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this week, military forecasters said Monday.
How SpaceX’s new suit revolutionised astronaut wear
In May 2020, the successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 reorbital rocket system allowed the world a glimpse of NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley wearing the next generation of astronautical wear.
Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander will fly to the moon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in 2023
Firefly Aerospace may be developing rockets of its own, but it’s also simultaneously building Blue Ghost, its first lunar lander, which will hop a ride with a rocket from a different launch company — SpaceX — in 2023.
