SpaceX launches Falcon 9 on Starlink mission Tuesday morning
SpaceX launched not one but two lunar landers to the Moon on the same mission, on the 100th launch from the same pad where the Apollo 11 crew launched to the Moon. A Falcon 9 successfully lifted off during an instantaneous window on Wednesday,
Elon Musk's rocket manufacturing company SpaceX on Tuesday launched its Falcon 9 rocket with 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 Starlink satellites from Florida today (Jan. 10). It was the 25th mission for the rocket's first stage, a new record.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 re-entry caused multiple delays on various airlines' flights because of falling rocket debris.
Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring the moon.
SpaceX has launched the lunar landers of two aerospace companies from the USA and Japan. One of them is hoping for success at the second attempt.
The mission featured two robotic lunar landers: one from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and another from the Japanese space company ispace. Both landers, each roughly the size
SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, January 14 for Falcon 9’s launch of the Transporter-12 mission to low-Earth orbit from California.
SpaceX’s latest launch, Falcon 9 Starlink 13-1, was a testament to the resilience of space exploration even under extreme weather conditions.
SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast today (Jan. 24). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink craft is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base today, during a 3.5-hour window that opens at 9:07 a.m. EST (1407 GMT; 6:07 a.m. local time).
Starlink isn't the only American company trying to offer direct-to-cell satellite connectivity. AST SpaceMobile has been working at it for years. In fact, AST was the very first company in the world to "phone home" from space.