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Watch how the atmospheric re-entry of one of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy's fairings, reported to be traveling at more than 15 times the speed of sound. Credit: SpaceX | Mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
"Standing down from today’s Starlink launch; vehicle and payload remain safe," SpaceX said in an update after the scrub.
Elon Musk's company has already lost more than $1 trillion of its peak value.
NASA has performed a rocket switcheroo and will launch its SunRISE mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy instead of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur on which it was originally booked to fly.
SpaceX tallied another Starlink mission early Tuesday on the Space Coast where it was business as usual, but in Texas, the company continued to prep for the next launch of its powerful Starship and Super Heavy.
From Starfall to Starmind, the latest projects from Elon Musk's SpaceX continue the company's cosmic naming tradition.
China is quickly closing the gap on Elon Musk’s reusable rockets in a way that should worry him more than any single competitor has before. On July 10, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC)—the state-owned contractor that builds nearly all of China’s rockets and satellites—launched the Long March-10B rocket on its first flight.
SpaceX is set for the 13th suborbital test flight of its Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Texas on Thursday as it drives toward its goal of beginning operational missions from Florida.
Starlink profits vs. CapEx, Starship uncertainty, and loss-making AI/orbital compute bets driving a $1.6T cap. Click to read more.
SpaceX has pushed the next launch of its Starship megarocket back a few more days.Elon Musk's company is now targeting Thursday (July 23) for Flight 13 of Starship, the giant, fully reusable vehicle it's developing to help get people to the moon and Mars,
