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NASA will soon begin testing the Dream Chaser, the first commercial spaceplane capable of orbital flight. The aircraft will be used to replenish supplies at the International Space Station. Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser will be an alternative to SpaceX’s spacecraft. The aircraft will be tested at NASA’s Ohio Test Site for one to three months. […]
On October 29, 2023, SpaceX launched 22 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit from the Vandenberg Space Force Complex in California, Space reports. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched at 11:00 a.m. Kyiv time. The first stage of the Falcon 9 returned to Earth about 8.5 minutes after launch on the automatic platform Of Course I […]
SpaceX will send secret Galileo satellites into orbit. The company signed a corresponding agreement with the European Space Agency. The European Space Agency stopped cooperating with Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, the commissioning of the Ariane 6 rocket is constantly postponed. In this regard, Europe has only one candidate […]
SpaceX plans to increase the number of launches to 100 rockets by the end of the year and has an ambitious goal of launching 144 flights a year starting in 2024. This was reported by Ars Technica. One of SpaceX’s goals is to expand satellite communications services for users. The company plans to upgrade its […]
Elon Musk, concerned about SpaceX’s “potential involvement in the war in Ukraine,” launches an alternative satellite Internet network that the US government can use for its own benefit. SpaceX has signed its first contract with the US Space Force to launch the government’s Starshield satellite network, Bloomberg reports. The idea, first announced in December, came […]
Those who want to connect Starlink satellite Internet can buy used equipment. Before being put back on sale, it underwent a restoration process. What is known According to SpaceX, the restored satellite Internet terminals have been cleaned and tested. The company claims that used equipment operates at the same level of performance as new equipment. […]
On September 24, at 03:38 UTC, a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the SLC-40 launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The carrier sent 22 Starlink v2 mini broadband satellites into low Earth orbit. This was the record 17th flight for the rocket’s first stage: B1060 successfully landed on the Just Read the […]
On September 6, SpaceX reassembled a full-fledged prototype of the Starship rocket with both stages (70-meter accelerator/first stage Super Heavy B9 + 50-meter spacecraft/second stage Starship S25) – after all the checks, engineers used the already well-known 140-meter Mechazilla crane tower to fully connect both parts of the rocket, and Elon Musk reported that it […]
The social network X, owned by Elon Musk for almost a year now, will broadcast SpaceX rocket launches. The aerospace company will no longer broadcast launches on YouTube. The decision of SpaceX, which is also owned by Musk, is related to the American billionaire’s desire to turn the X social network into a Twitch and […]
SpaceX has launched 22 more Internet satellites. The total number of Starliners in Earth orbit has exceeded five thousand. The American company SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink Internet satellites into low Earth orbit on the night of Sunday, August 27. A Falcon 9 rocket delivered 22 mini-satellites there. Watch Falcon 9 launch 22 @Starlink […]