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Here's what Elon Musk had to say about this morning's SpaceX explosion
The explosion occurred during a routine static test fire ahead of Saturday's planned (and now scrub…
Rebecca Harrington
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SpaceX could make space travel history in December
"If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to …
Kelly Dickerson
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Elon Musk says this powerful new SpaceX rocket may be 'the most reliable ever built' - here's how to watch its historic first mission live
The two-stage BFR system is expected to be taller than the Statue of Liberty, deliver a 16-story sp…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk's SpaceX just launched the most powerful rocket on Earth today
Musk previously said Falcon Heavy's success would be akin to placing it in a market "where one airc…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk released a supercut of SpaceX rocket explosion videos with never-before-seen footage
Today SpaceX has more or less perfected launching Falcon 9 rockets, dropping off customer payloads …
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX is about to try something 'potentially revolutionary' in the history of space travel
However, SES - a Luxembourg-based telecommunications company and longtime customer of SpaceX - acti…
Dave Mosher
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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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SpaceX is about to launch the 'final version' of its Falcon 9 rocket for the first time - here's how to watch live
The reason Musk calls Falcon 9 Block 5 the "final version" is that SpaceX's 6,000 employees are shi…
Dave Mosher
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The Tesla Roadster that SpaceX is launching to Mars orbit is equipped with cameras - and Elon Musk says they'll provide epic views
The upper stage of the Falcon Heavy then has to travel through the extreme radiation of the Van All…
Kevin Loria
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Elon Musk says this is why SpaceX's rocket exploded last month - and how he plans to keep it from happening again
The particular piece in question was holding in place a bottle of helium in the upper, second-stage…
Jessica Orwig
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WATCH LIVE: SpaceX is launching a giant rocket in the middle of the night
Getting a satellite into GTO requires even more fuel than the April 8 launch, which carried cargo a…
Kevin Loria,Dave Mosher
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Watch live: SpaceX is about to rocket a bus-sized object into space with a record-breaking launch
About 33 minutes after launch, the rocket's upper stage should deploy the satellite, officially cal…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk: SpaceX may launch its biggest and most powerful rocket in 3 months
The central core would continue flying for a little while afterward and then detach from a upper-st…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will try its 'most difficult launch ever' tonight. Here's how to watch live video of the third-ever Falcon Heavy rocket mission.
00:00:42 - Max Q (moment of peak mechanical stress on the rocket) 00:02:27 - Booster engine cutoff…
Dave Mosher
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An incredible new SpaceX video shows what it's like to be inside the nose cone of a Falcon 9 rocket launching Starlink internet satellites into orbit
After SpaceX's eighth Starlink internet satellite launch, the company released a video of its Falco…
Dave Mosher
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Strong winds forced SpaceX to call off its first Starlink satellite launch, which it hopes to launch today instead
SpaceX was forced to call off its highly-anticipated Starlink satellite launch due to strong winds …
Alexandra Ma
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Watch live: SpaceX to try launching Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful operational rocket, on its first paid mission
Once the rocket lifts off, it's just the start of the mission. The Falcon Heavy's upper stage is su…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX's ambitious rocket launch schedule just blew up
That ambitious launch schedule includes the launch of a recycled Falcon 9 rocket booster (and the S…
Dave Mosher
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Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch more rockets than any nation on Earth this year - and make spaceflight history again in 2019
"There's really only so much work you can even do in one day, and a bunch of it consists of transpo…