Tag: SpaceX
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SpaceX reportedly seeking to raise $250M as Starlink and Starship efforts ramp up
SpaceX workers build a nose cone for a Starship prototype spaceship in Texas. (Elon Musk via Twitter) SpaceX is seeking to bring in about $250 million in new investment during a funding round that’s still underway, amid a burst of activity related to the company’s Starlink satellites and Starship super-rocket, CNBC reports. CNBC quotes unnamed…
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SpaceX beginning final assembly of Starship SN1 ahead of roll to the pad
SpaceX teams have begun stacking Starship SN1 in Boca Chica, Texas. The rocket is gearing up for its first flight, which will see the vehicle fly to around 20 kilometers in altitude and then propulsively land back at the launch facility. (Lead Photo by Jack Beyer for NSF) SN1 is SpaceX’s second Starship vehicle to…
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SpaceX sends 60 Starlink broadband satellites into a different orbit, but misses 50th booster landing
SpaceX launched 60 more satellites for its Starlink internet broadband constellation on a Falcon 9 rocket today, bringing the total count to 300. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida came at 10:05 a.m. ET (7:05 a.m. PT). This Falcon’s first-stage booster had been used three times before over the course of nine…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s fifth batch of Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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SpaceX successfully conducts fifth Starlink launch – booster misses drone ship
SpaceX launched its fifth batch of Starlink internet satellites on Monday, Feb. 17 at 10:05 Eastern (15:05 UTC) from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission featured the fastest turnaround time to-date of a Falcon first stage booster. However, while a secondary objective, the booster missed its landing spot on the drone ship…
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Live coverage: SpaceX readies Falcon 9 for fifth Starlink mission
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s fifth batch of Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. The Falcon 9 with its payload fairing containing 60 more Starlink satellites…
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Former NASA spaceflight chief now consulting with SpaceX
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Bill Gerstenmaier, head of NASA’s human exploration and operations directorate, speaks with reporters last year at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Chris Swanson Bill Gerstenmaier, former director of spaceflight at NASA Headquarters and a widely respected aerospace engineer and manager, has taken a consulting position at…
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SpaceX considers Starlink spinoff as teams ready for mid-February launch
A view of the 60 Starlink satellites stacked before a launch in January. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX says it is considering spinning off its Starlink broadband Internet project into a separate company, while teams at Cape Canaveral ready to launch around 60 more of the flat-panel data relay nodes into Earth orbit as soon as Feb.…
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Report: SpaceX is planning to spin out Starlink satellite broadband network and take it public
An artist’s conception shows the deployment of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. (SpaceX Illustration) SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is quoted as saying that the company is planning to spin out its Starlink satellite internet operation — which is currently centered in Redmond, Wash. — and offer shares in an initial public offering. Bloomberg News reports that Shotwell…
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Photos: Falcon 9 lifts off on fourth dedicated launch for Starlink network
The 80th flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered 60 more satellites to orbit for the company’s Starlink broadband network Wednesday after launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket fired up at 9:06:49 a.m. EST (1406:49 GMT) Wednesday and climbed away from from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch…