The company’s Electron rocket carrying the CAPSTONE mission lifts off from New Zealand on June 28, 2022. Rocket Lab Rocket Lab launched a small spacecraft bound for the moon from its New Zealand...
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SpaceX FCC broadband feud vs. Dish, Michael Dell affiliate worsens
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaking about the Starlink project at MWC hybrid Keynote during the second day of Mobile World Congress on June 29, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images W...
SpaceX fires employees after internal letter criticizes CEO Elon Musk
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency&#...
SpaceX Starship ‘ready to fly’ by July
Starship prototypes are pictured at the SpaceX South Texas launch site in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., May 22, 2022. Picture taken May 22, 2022. Veronica Cardenas | Reuters SpaceX is closing in on the n...
Astra’s stock drops after rocket failed to deliver NASA mission to orbit
The company’s LV0010 rocket stands on the launchpad at Florida’s Cape Canaveral ahead of the NASA TROPICS-1 mission. Astra Shares of rocket-builder Astra fell sharply in trading on Monday ...
FAA SpaceX Starship environmental review clears Texas program to move forward
A Starship prototype stands on the company’s launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas on March 16, 2022. SpaceX The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said it will require Elon Musk’s SpaceX ...
Elon Musk says offering is 3 or 4 years away
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stands at the base of a Starship rocket prototype at the company’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Steve Jurvetson on flickr Elon Musk last week told SpaceX employees the com...
Performance during supply chain disruptions
Virgin Orbit’s modified 747 jet “Cosmic Girl” releases the company’s LauncherOne rocket for a mission on January 13, 2022. Virgin Orbit Space companies reported results for the...
Boeing lands Starliner capsule, completing a crucial test flight
Boeing’s Starliner capsule lands in White Sands, New Mexico on May 25, 2022 to complete the OFT-2 mission. NASA TV Boeing landed its uncrewed Starliner spacecraft in the New Mexico desert on Wed...
SpaceX’s Starlink surpasses 400,000 subscribers globally
A Starlink satellite terminal, also known as a dish, setup in front of an RV. SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX told federal regulators in a presentation last week that its Starlink satellite internet s...
NRO announces satellite imagery contracts to Maxar, Planet, BlackSky
Maxar collected new satellite imagery of the southern Ukrainian port city of Berdyansk that reveals a Russian Alligator-class landing ship that is burned and partially submerged near one of the ports ...
SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell defends Elon Musk over sex misconduct allegations
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk participates in a postlaunch news conference inside the Press Site auditorium at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, following the launch of the agency&#...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX looks to raise $1.7 billion in new funding
A Falcon 9 rocket launches a batch of Starlink satellites to orbit on April 29, 2022. SpaceX SpaceX is raising a massive round of fresh funding, CNBC has learned, sending the private company’s v...
Space industry is on its way to $1 trillion in revenue by 2040: Citi
A Falcon 9 rocket carries 49 Starlink satellites toward orbit on Feb. 3, 2022. SpaceX The space industry should reach $1 trillion in annual revenue by 2040, with launch costs dropping 95%, Citigroup a...
Boeing’s Starliner OFT-2 launch update: What’s at stake
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is seen as it is rolled out to the launchpad for the OFT-2 mission scheduled to lift off on May 19, 2022. Joel K...
Firms plan to use balloons to go to space in 2024
Nearly half of Americans want to travel to space. But that means the other half doesn’t, according to a 2021 survey by ValuePenguin, one of LendingTree’s financial research websites. Nearly 40% ...
Boeing considers redesigning crucial valve for Starliner space capsule
Boeing’s Starliner capsule for the Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) mission is lifted on top of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket on May 4, 2022. Frank Michaux / NASA Boeing is examinin...
Ken Griffin wins $8 million Bezos spaceflight auction, donating seats
Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel (L) and Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off (R) Reuters Ken Griffin, billionaire founder and CEO of hedge fund Citadel, placed the winning $8 million bid in ...
Virgin Orbit assembling fleet of 747 jets to launch more rockets
The modified 737 aircraft “Cosmic Girl” lifts off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California carrying a LauncherOne rocket on June 30, 2021. Virgin Orbit Virgin Orbit is assembling a fle...
SpaceX NASA Crew-3 mission, 6th astronaut flight, splashes down
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule Endurance splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida on May 6, 2022. NASA TV SpaceX returned the astronauts of NASA’s Crew-3 mission t...
SpaceX adds $25 portability monthly fee for Starlink service
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rolled out a $25 monthly fee this week for customers who seek to relocate their Starlink internet service satellite dishes. “Portability enables customers to temporarily...
Rocket Lab CEO touts helicopter catch of rocket as key toward reusable goals
The Electron booster comes into view of the company’s helicopter for the catch. Rocket Lab Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck heralded the company’s first attempt on Monday to catch its Electron ro...
Competitive contracts are making space exploration cheaper
The Artemis 1 mission Space Launch System (SLS) rocket Frank Michaux / NASA The head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Tuesday discussed a dramatic shift in how the agency plans ...
Watch Rocket Lab attempt rocket booster catch with helicopter
[The company’s livestream is slated to begin at 6:05 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see the video player above.] Space company Rocket Lab on Monday will attempt to catch the boos...
150,000 using SpaceX’s Starlink in daily average
A shipment of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite antennas, also known as terminals, arriving in Ukraine. Fedorov Mykhailo on Twitter Elon Musk’s SpaceX is continuing to expand its Starlink satell...
FAA delays environmental decision on SpaceX’s Starship launches to May
SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. Michael Sheetz | CNBC The Federal Aviation Administration for a fourth time delayed its environmental review of SpaceX’s Starship rocket pr...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches NASA Crew-4 astronaut mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom launches the Crew-4 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 27, 2022. Aubrey Gemignani |...
Private Axiom astronaut crew returns from ISS
Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean with the Axiom Space Ax-1 crew on April 25, 2022. SpaceX SpaceX safely returned its Crew Dragon spacecraft from orbit on Monday, carry...