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SpaceX will no longer produce new capsules for astronauts of Crew Dragon missions, reports Reuters about the head of the company. Now all resources will be directed to the creation of the next-generation spacecraft. “We are finishing our last (capsule), but we are still producing components for repairs.” — SpaceX President Gwen Shotwell The Crew […]
Last time, the US Federal Aviation Administration promised to issue an opinion on the environmental review – without which it is impossible to proceed to full-fledged testing of the Starship spacecraft – no later than March 25. The new deadline is April 29. If delays from state power continue, SpaceX will have to move from […]
As part of the Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has ordered six cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS) from Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. The American company Northrop Grumman also received an order for six flights to the Near-Earth Station and will share the contract budget […]
Changes in the company’s pricing policy affected both the launch part of the business and the Starlink satellite system. The company attributed the adjustment to inflation: according to data from the US Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics on March 10, the country’s inflation rate over the past 12 months was 7.9%, reaching a forty-year-high. “The […]
Orbital tests of the next-generation spacecraft, which the private company SpaceX is building in Texas, may take place in May. As Elon Musk wrote on Twitter, The Raptor engines will be ready in April, it will take another month to install and debug them, after which the Super Heavy launch vehicle will be able to […]
The British company OneWeb, which creates the global satellite internet system of the same name to compete with Starlink, has signed an agreement with a direct competitor — the American SpaceX Elon Musk. This will allow OneWeb to resume launching its own internet satellites after the termination of cooperation with Russia’s Roscosmos-on Falcon 9 launch […]
On March 19, SpaceX made the eleventh launch of the Falcon 9 rocket this year. as part of the Starlink-4.12 mission, the carrier successfully launched a batch of 53 Starlink vehicles into 320-kilometer orbit. The last launch set several new records for SpaceX. First, the total weight of its payload was 16,250 kg. This is […]
Elon Musk’s satellite internet service is already able to compete with traditional providers. According to a report from Ookla, the provider of Speedtest, the largest network quality measurement platform, Starlink’s average speed in 15 key markets rose to more than 104 MBps in the fourth quarter of 2021. Thus, the service from SpaceX became the […]
On Saturday, March 19, SpaceX launched a batch of 53 Starlink Internet satellites into low Earth orbit. According to Channel 24, the launch took place at 6:42 Kyiv time from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral. The Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched and landed the first stage. The satellites have also successfully reached their destination. Now […]