SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft launched on Nov. 9 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying technology demonstrations and scientific experiments to the International Space Station. NASA reported Thursday that the rocket took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking SpaceX's 29th commercial resupply mission for the space agency.

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NASA announced on Sept. 29 that it had selected SpaceX to launch the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites mission. The pair of small satellites will study space weather and how the sun’s energy affects Earth’s magnetosphere, the space agency said. The TRACERS launch task order was awarded to SpaceX under the Venture-Class Acquisition of […] More

SpaceX has completed a set of tests for a company-built engine intended to power the landing platform for NASA’s Artemis III and Artemis IV lunar missions. The spacecraft manufacturer said Thursday that it had conducted a Starship Human Landing System test last month that demonstrated the Raptor engine’s performance in extreme cold conditions. The test is […] More

SpaceX has completed a set of tests for a company-built engine intended to power the landing platform for NASA's Artemis III and Artemis IV lunar missions. The spacecraft manufacturer had conducted a Starship Human Landing System test last month that demonstrated the Raptor engine's performance in extreme cold conditions. More

The Space Development Agency has completed an orbital insertion of 13 satellites from Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and York Space Systems, marking the second launch under an initiative to demonstrate missile warning and tracking capabilities for the U.S. military. SDA said Saturday’s Tranche 0 Transport Layer mission took off at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California […] More

The Space Development Agency completed an orbital insertion of 13 satellites from Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and York Space Systems on Saturday, marking the second launch for SDA's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture initiative to demonstrate missile warning and tracking capabilities for the U.S. military. More

The Space Development Agency completed an orbital insertion of 13 satellites from Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and York Space Systems on Saturday, marking the second launch for SDA's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture initiative to demonstrate missile warning and tracking capabilities for the U.S. military. More

The sixth rotation mission of SpaceX and NASA’s Commercial Crew Program has landed safely off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida after 186 days in orbit. NASA said Monday the four-member team, who flew on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon spacecraft, consisted of astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, Sultan Alneyadi representing the United […] More

The sixth rotation mission of SpaceX and NASA's Commercial Crew Program has landed safely off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida after 186 days in orbit. The four-member team, who flew on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon spacecraft, consists of astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, Sultan Alneyadi representing the United Arab Emirates, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. More

The sixth rotation mission of SpaceX and NASA's Commercial Crew Program has landed safely off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida after 186 days in orbit. The four-member team, who flew on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon spacecraft, consists of astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, Sultan Alneyadi representing the United Arab Emirates, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. More

The SpaceX Dragon vehicle transported three astronauts and one cosmonaut to the International Space Station after a nearly 30-hour journey as part of NASA and the company’s seventh crew rotation mission. Crew-7, which will perform over 200 science and technology experiments, lifted off at 3:27 a.m. Eastern time Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center in […] More

The Space Development Agency has enlisted SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions and Aalyria Technologies to conduct three-month research on how to connect commercial low-Earth orbit systems to a planned layered network of U.S. military satellites and supporting platforms. SDA said Thursday in a LinkedIn post the awards, issued under the System, Technologies and Emerging Capabilities broad […] More