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WASHINGTON — A Falcon 9 launched a batch of Starlink satellites on Feb. 7 after SpaceX completed an investigation into an engine malfunction during the rocket’s…

When Falcon Heavy lifted off in February 2018 with Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster as its payload, SpaceX was at a much different place. So was…

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX Update 12:10 p.m. EST (1710…

POLARIS announced that it has won a BAAINBw (Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support) contract. This new contract will see the manufacturing…

SpaceX’s next astronaut launch for NASA is officially on for next week.On Friday (Feb. 6), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authorized SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to…

WASHINGTON — After losing about 20% of its civil servant workforce in the past year, NASA’s administrator says the agency plans to bring more expertise in-house…

With the news of a merger between SpaceX and xAI being confirmed earlier this week by CEO Elon Musk directly, the first moves of an umbrella…

A United Launch Alliance Vulcan booster is offloaded from the company’s R/S RocketShip barge at a dock at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This will…

After 15 years of development, Europe’s latest Meteosat satellite has begun returning its first data.Known as Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder, or MTG-S, the spacecraft is designed to…

A jet of charged particles moving at almost the speed of light, made from the remnants of a star that was brutally ripped apart by a…