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Did Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket make a hole in Earth's ionosphere? A US space physicist claims it did
A Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX earlier this month has made a temporary hole in Ea…
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Amazon launches partnership with rival SpaceX to send competing satellites into orbit
Amazon and SpaceX have entered into a contract to conduct three Falcon 9 launches to support Amazon…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Elon Musk says SpaceX is aiming to launch its most-used rocket once a week on average this year
Elon Musk's prediction follows reports that SpaceX is aiming to fly 52 rockets into orbit this year.
Kate Duffy
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Elon Musk's SpaceX taunts Russia at Starlink launch: 'Time to let the American broomstick fly'
Last week, Russia stopped selling rocket engines to the US and its space chief suggested the US cou…
Grace Kay
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SpaceX launched a $214 million NASA satellite into orbit to study black holes and dead stars
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) was launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 r…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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SpaceX launches 143 satellites after weather problems delayed the record-breaking mission
The mix of commercial and government satellites deployed in the mission made for the largest-ever p…
Ben Winck
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A physicist says it's 'quite possible' a SpaceX launch punched a hole in parts of the Earth's atmosphere
Jeff Baumgardner, a physicist from Boston University, discussed the possibility of ionospheric hole…
Beatrice Nolan
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SpaceX plans to race remote-controlled cars on the moon in 2021, and has drafted in a legendary Ferrari designer to help
The RC cars are designed by Frank Stephenson of BMW, McLaren, and Ferrari fame, and will blast off …
Kate Duffy
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Elon Musk says SpaceX's Falcon rocket is aiming for 60 launches in 2022, doubling the number of flights made last year
The company also expects 4,200 Starlink satellites to be in operation by 2024, which would be two-t…
Dominick Reuter
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The European Space Agency jokingly asks Mark Zuckerberg if he will start making rockets like Elon Musk after Threads launch
Threads has seen several companies sign up, including the European Space Agency, which joked about …
Pete Syme
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Here’s why a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is crashing into the moon after 7 years
The upper stages of SpaceX rockets usually return back to Earth after they’re sent into space an…
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NASA launches DART probe on a head-on collision course with an asteroid
NASA is testing a method it might one day use to save Earth from a city-killing asteroid. Ramming a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX is poised to make rocket launches 10 times cheaper with Starship, experts say
SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket reached a major milestone on Thursday, pushing Elon Musk's ambition t…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX successfully launched more Starlink internet satellites, but lost a rocket booster in the process.
The rocket booster was supposed to land on a ship waiting in the Atlantic Ocean.
Annabelle Williams
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SpaceX blasted a GPS satellite into orbit for Space Force — the second it's launched for the US military this year
Nine minutes later after launch, the Falcon 9 rocket booster landed on SpaceX's drone ship "Of Cour…
Kate Duffy
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SpaceX has launched a billionaire-funded crew of space tourists into orbit - the first civilian mission of its kind
SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission has carried a group of four amateur space travelers to Earth's orbit,…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch SpaceX launch 4 space tourists into Earth's orbit
The Inspiration4 crew members have never been to space. They've only trained for five months. Their…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Elon Musk says he will personally inspect SpaceX's launch pad sites after 2 rockets failed to launch
"We will need to make a lot of improvements to have a chance of completing 48 launches next year!,"…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket booster for a record-breaking 9th time
SpaceX propels Falcon 9 booster for the ninth time, delivering to orbit a payload of Starlink satel…
Zahra Tayeb
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SpaceX's rocket launch of 58 Starlink internet satellites on Saturday left behind a jaw-dropping, rainbow-colored cloud in the Florida sky
The rocket company, founded by Elon Musk, lifted off its Starlink-8 mission to spectacular effect a…