SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites but booster landing fails
SpaceX has now launched 1,145 Starlink internet relay satellites with launches of thousands more anticipated.
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SpaceX has now launched 1,145 Starlink internet relay satellites with launches of thousands more anticipated.
Elon Musk's electric car company will also soon allow customers to buy its vehicles with bitcoin.
One down, one to go: SpaceX launches the first of two back-to-back Falcon 9 flights.
The mission aims to raise $200 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and one of the crew members will be a frontline health worker.
Individual investors, fueled by social media posts, bought up GameStop stock, artificially inflating the price. The move caused Wall Street firms to take a hit. Manuel Bojorquez has more.
It was the most satellites ever launched by a single rocket
SpaceX has now launched more than 1,000 Starlink internet relay satellites.
A surge in Tesla's stock price has vaulted the entrepreneur to the top spot, with a fortune worth $188 billion.
The launching was the first of 40 or more SpaceX flights planned for 2021.
The launch came two days later than planned because of higher-than-normal pressure in the rocket's second stage liquid oxygen tank that triggered a last-minute "auto abort" Thursday.
Under new management, OneWeb launches a fourth batch of internet satellites.
The launching was the 25th Falcon 9 flight this year as SpaceX continues a rapid-fire cadence.
SpaceX on Sunday shot off a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a powerful next-generation SiriusXM radio satellite, chalking up the California rocket builder's 25th flight to orbit so far this year. Watch the launch here.
Despite the setback, an elated Elon Musk says valuable data was collected.
A test flight of the SpaceX Mars rocket ended in a fiery explosion in Texas on Wednesday.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has no reports of crashes or injuries, but it will look at possible risks of the ball joint failure as complaints mount.
The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage set a new record, making its seventh flight from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX on Saturday launched a rocket from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Falcon 9 rocket is carrying into orbit a satellite that will monitor sea levels for at least a decade.
The Sentinel-6 satellite is the first of two in a billion-dollar program to monitor Earth's oceans.
NASA aims to end reliance on Russia with first operational flight of Crew Dragon spacecraft.
The historic joint effort between NASA and SpaceX, called Crew-1, to launch a crew of astronauts to the International Space Station has been delayed citing weather conditions. While there were no issues with the launch, the decision to delay was made out of concerns about the landing. Mark Strassmann reports.
The launch was expected to give NASA the data needed to press ahead with the next Crew Dragon fight to space station.
The launch will mark the first operational flight by SpaceX's commercially developed Crew Dragon spacecraft.
It was the first of two planned Starlink launchings in just three days.
Launch delay will give engineers more time to resolve an engine turbopump issue on a different rocket