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in SpaceXSpaceX soon to be valued at $140 billion. Will it go public?
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is now undergoing an insider stock sale. Bloomberg claims the corporation is valuing itself at about $140 billion, given that it is issuing shares at $77 each. According to the people who disclosed the share sale to Bloomberg, SpaceX has had conversations on a variety of pricing options for the […] More
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NASA Admin: SpaceX plans to land Starship on the Moon in 2023
Former senator and current NASA administrator Bill Nelson said that his organization intends to visit Mars by the end of 2030 after the successful splashdown of the Orion spacecraft in the Pacific Ocean. During a post-splashdown news conference, Senator Nelson struck an enthusiastic note after NASA conducted a successful Artemis 1 mission and presented information […] More
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SpaceX successfully launches a Japanese lunar lander and UAE rover to the Moon
An early-morning Sunday launch from Cape Canaveral by SpaceX sent a commercially produced Japanese lunar lander into orbit for a 3-month journey to a 54-mile-wide landing site. A tiny NASA spacecraft that will probe icy, persistently shaded craters close to the moon’s poles for ice formations is also on board. The launch happened on the […] More
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SpaceX introduces a new business line focused on military satellite services
On December 2, SpaceX announced Starshield, a brand-new business unit aimed at American state security agencies. This division of SpaceX plans to leverage the Starlink internet network in low Earth orbit to provide goods and services that the US military and intelligence agencies are increasingly in need of, such as encrypted communications, remote sensing, and […] More
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SpaceX Starship’s Orbital launch is now just one test away
It is possible that SpaceX may conduct a test launch of a fully constructed Starship, which is a rocket that is over 30 stories tall, into Earth’s orbit as soon as this month. The choice of launch location is between the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the company’s development facility in Boca Chica, Texas. […] More
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SpaceX to launch first Commercial Lunar Lander
With SpaceX’s next rocket launch on December 1, the competition for commercial activity on the moon enters a new chapter owing to a payload that will serve as the first private landing there. Originally planned for the 30th of November, the launch of Japan’s iSpace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 will now take place on SpaceX’s Falcon […] More
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Watch this incredible footage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch as seen from a passenger jet flying over the launch pad
Watching the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch is exciting, but experiencing it from a window seat on a United Airlines aircraft, 30,000 feet in the air, is much more exciting. On November 26, 2022, the Falcon 9 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Yesterday, astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann from NASA were able […] More
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SpaceX’s cargo ship Dragon successfully docks with the ISS, delivering Thanksgiving treats
On Saturday, SpaceX sent 7,700 pounds of supplies to the ISS on its 26th resupply mission, which included a variety of Thanksgiving leftover delicacies. According to CBS News, the holiday fare featured ice cream, hot green beans, apple and cranberry desserts, almond pumpkin pie, and candy corn. At 2:20 p.m. on Saturday, SpaceX’s 215-foot Falcon […] More
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The king of rockets NASA’s SLS could soon be dethroned by SpaceX’s Starship
A record was temporarily set when NASA’s Space Launch System blasted out from the Kennedy Space Center launch pad. The SLS rocket generated 8.8 million pounds of power to lift the Orion spacecraft into orbit and helped in sending it on its journey to the moon for the unmanned Artemis I mission. It did this […] More
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Lightsail 2 ends 3-year solar sailing mission, burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere
Following a catastrophic reentry, the LightSail 2 mission of the Planetary Society has come to an end after having completed more than three years’ worth of orbits around the Earth. The satellite served as an essential demonstration of technology for the concept of solar sailing, which one day may be used to drive spacecraft to […] More
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Why the SLS mega rocket can’t be reused like SpaceX?
The massive SLS rocket has shown that it is efficient. On November 16, she successfully launched the Orion spacecraft, which is heading to the Moon. On the other hand, the SLS cannot be repurposed like a SpaceX Falcon 9. SLS finally launched yesterday. The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket made its first launch on November 16, 2022, […] More
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Former SpaceX workers claim they were fired for speaking up about Elon Musk
According to The New York Times, eight former SpaceX workers claim they were unjustly dismissed for writing a letter criticizing Elon Musk and have filed a lawsuit against the firm for unfair labor practices. If you remember, The Times reported in June that SpaceX had dismissed staff members who had contributed to an open letter […] More