Tag: SpaceX
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SpaceX leases new 125,000-square-foot complex in Seattle area as Starlink satellite operation grows
An artist’s conception shows one of the buildings currently under construction at Redmond Ridge Business Park. (Illustration via Kidder Mathews) SpaceX is leasing a 124,907-square-foot building complex that’s under construction in Redmond Ridge Business Park, east of Seattle, according to the latest industrial real estate market report from Kidder Mathews. Kidder Mathews, which listed the…
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SpaceX going for its 10th satellite launch of the year Wednesday
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket on pad 40 before a launch last month. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now SpaceX teams at Cape Canaveral are readying for the company’s 10th Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year Wednesday, another flight devoted to delivering satellites to orbit for the Starlink internet network. Like seven of the…
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New permits shed light on activity at SpaceX’s Cidco and Roberts Road facilities
Building and testing SpaceX’s next generation launch system, Starship, has primarily been conducted at the village of Boca Chica, Texas. But just a couple years ago, Starship hardware was also being built at a SpaceX facility on Cidco Road in Cocoa, Florida, near America’s most active spaceport at Cape Canaveral. Today, only a single Starship…
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SpaceX to ramp up Vandenberg launch cadence with Starlink missions
File photo of a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on Jan. 11, 2019. Credit: SpaceX After a lull in launches from America’s primary West Coast rocket base, SpaceX is set to resume a regular cadence of missions from Vandenberg Air Force Base as soon as July to deploy Starlink internet satellites…
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SpaceX rocket debris recovered from Central Washington farm after fiery fall
The Falcon 9 pressure tank is loaded up for transport after recovery from a Grant County farm. (Grant County Sheriff’s Office) The atmospheric re-entry and breakup of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage created a fiery display in the skies above the Pacific Northwest a week ago, but not all of those shooting stars…
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SpaceX and NASA entering final preparations for Crew-2 launch
With launch now just a few weeks away, SpaceX and NASA have entered final preparations for the second operational Crew Dragon mission. This will be SpaceX’s second long-duration crew rotation for NASA as a part of the Commercial Crew program. Crew-2 will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from historic…
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Seattle-area engineer and Arizona teacher join billionaire’s crew for charity space trip
Lockheed Martin engineer Christopher Sembroski (far left) and planetary scientist Sian Proctor (third from left) will join physician assistant Hayley Arceneaux (second from left) and Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman (far right) on a SpaceX Dragon orbital flight. SpaceX’s launch tower at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is in the background. (SpaceX Photo) The…
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Starship SN11 lands in bits as SpaceX refine forward plan
Surrounded by a blanket of fog, Starship SN11 launched on Tuesday before suffering an issue ahead of landing. Over at the Production Site, Super Heavy prototype BN1 was stacked ahead of what was expected to be a rollout and ground testing, before Elon Musk noted shortly after SN11’s launch that it will be scrapped. SN15…
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Expert skywatchers quickly solve Pacific Northwest’s meteor mystery
The breakup of a SpaceX rocket stage sparks a light show over Seattle. (Cedric Padilla Photo) Was it a meteor? A broken-up satellite? Maybe a UFO? Leave it to an astronomer to identify what caused the light show that was visible over a wide stretch of the Pacific Northwest around 9 p.m. PT tonight. Jonathan…
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Falcon 9 Starlink v1.0 L22 launches from Cape Canaveral SLC-40
The Starlink constellation received another 60 satellites, as Falcon 9 B1060-6 launched on Falcon 9’s ninth flight of 2021 and fourth flight. Liftoff was on schedule at 4:28 am EDT (08:28 UTC), Wednesday, March 24, the 15th anniversary of SpaceX’s first-ever orbital launch attempt. This launch was conducted from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at…