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After spending months on a week-long mission, Sunita Williams finally meets the SpaceX capsule that will bring her back from space
The mission, launched on Saturday, marked a critical milestone in their extended stay in space, wit…
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A Chinese firm's answer to SpaceX's Falcon 9 blew up in a giant fireball after it accidentally launched during a test
Tianbing Aerospace Technology said it was testing its rocket engine when the Tianlong-3 left the la…
Matthew Loh
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is annoyed with SpaceX's big rocket launches
Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, filed concerns to the FAA about SpaceX's Starship rocket l…
Jaures Yip,Morgan McFall-John…
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Elon Musk's 'autocratic' style made SpaceX thrive — but his fixations could threaten its dominance, according to a new book
SpaceX book author Eric Berger talks Elon Musk's rocket success, tough boss status, what Twitter me…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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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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Why yesterday's SpaceX launch was such a huge deal for space travel
Elon Musk's Starship rocket achieved a world first on Sunday after its Super Heavy booster was caug…
Ellie Zolfagharifard,Morgan M…
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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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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 sues California commission who blocked more SpaceX launches, accusing it of 'unconstitutional overreach'
Elon Musk sued the California Coastal Commission after the state agency rejected a plan that would …
Natalie Musumeci,Geoff Weiss
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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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WATCH: Chinese space rocket accidentally takes off prematurely while testing and crashes into a hill within a minute
In an unexpected turn of events, Beijing-based aerospace company Space Pioneer conducted a static f…
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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 he will take legal action after California officials cited his politics when rejecting SpaceX launches
The California Coastal Commission denied a request to allow SpaceX to increase the number of launch…
Rebecca Rommen,Nathan Rennolds
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SpaceX launches 4 people, including a billionaire, on the most ambitious private human spaceflight yet
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission lifted off with plans to attempt the first commercial spacewalk, in a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Mikhail…
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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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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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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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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.