Articles about SpaceX – Page 9 of 16

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sends AI robot pal and other experiments to space station

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, sending an AI-enabled, sphere-shaped robot… Read More

Why SpaceX and Boeing can sell spots on commercial space taxis to private travelers

RENTON, Wash. — When NASA’s Phil McAlister worked out the contracts with SpaceX and Boeing to ferry astronauts to and from… Read More

Night launch: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends SES-12 telecom satellite into orbit

News Brief: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent the SES-12 telecommunications satellite into orbit tonight in a no-drama night launch.… Read More

Washington Hyperloop unveils pod racer with thrusters for SpaceX’s next contest

The Washington Hyperloop team is counting on the third time being the charm. But it’s not just a question of… Read More

SpaceX’s prototype internet satellites are good enough for gaming, Elon Musk says

It’s been three months since SpaceX launched the first prototype satellites for its Starlink broadband internet network, and there’s been… Read More

Control Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘Starman’ in quest to blow up Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in video game

It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend, and your head is probably already in the clouds, so here’s something to… Read More

SpaceX propulsion guru Tom Mueller looks ahead to Raptor rocket engines for Mars

LOS ANGELES — SpaceX’s success owes a lot to the tenacity of the company’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, but some of… Read More

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell sees satellites as bigger market than rockets

SpaceX is taking a commanding role in the rocket business — but Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president and chief operating officer,… Read More

SpaceX launches gravity-mapping probes plus another five Iridium telecom satellites

A refurbished SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent two gravity-mapping satellites and five satellites for Iridium’s next-generation telecommunications network into orbit… Read More

SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9 debuts with launch for Bangladesh (and rocket landing)

SpaceX sent a Bangladeshi telecommunications satellite into orbit today atop what CEO Elon Musk calls the “last major version” of… Read More

Computer aborts milestone SpaceX rocket launch at last minute, forcing a day’s delay

News Brief: The anxiously awaited launch of the first of SpaceX’s “last” Falcon 9 rockets will have to wait at… Read More

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship brings Robonaut and mice back to Earth from space station

News Brief: After a month of unloading and reloading, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule was set loose from the International Space… Read More

Funding round raises $214 million for SpaceX so far — and it’s far from finished

News Brief: Last week we learned that SpaceX is looking to raise more than $500 million in a new Series… Read More

SpaceX launches NASA’s TESS spacecraft on mission to seek out alien planets

SpaceX has launched NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, kicking off a mission aimed at surveying nearly the entire sky… Read More

SpaceX and NASA delay launch of TESS planet hunter to check guidance analysis

NASA and SpaceX say they’ll take more time to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey System, or TESS, just to make… Read More

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says that humans could get to Mars within a decade*

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says it’s possible that humans will set foot on Mars in the next decade, and he’s… Read More

Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to raise $500M as it makes progress on its Big F’n Rocket

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is aiming to raise up to $507 million in a new funding round, according to documents filed… Read More

TLDR: Congress releases Zuckerberg’s testimony, ?ear-cleaning headphones, ?Elon Musk shows off SpaceX tool

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

Report: Probe blames Zuma spy satellite’s loss on Northrop Grumman, not SpaceX

News Brief: Investigators have tentatively concluded that January’s loss of a U.S. spy satellite code-named Zuma was due to problems… Read More

What a tool! Elon Musk shows off what SpaceX will use to build BFR spaceship

To build a big frickin’ spaceship, you need a big frickin’ rack to put it on. And SpaceX has the… Read More

Dragon delivers cargo to space station

News Brief: Two days after its launch, SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule was pulled in for its hookup to the… Read More

SpaceX sends reused cargo ship to space station on reused Falcon 9 rocket … again

SpaceX sent nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments to the International Space Station today, using a Falcon 9… Read More

Bezos, Musk and more: Space billionaires take the spotlight in books and on TV

Space is hard: That used to be the excuse for explaining why sending people into space would always be something… Read More

TLDR: April Fool’s comes early, new broadband service from SpaceX, Apple AirPods giveaway

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches fifth batch of Iridium NEXT telecom satellites

Another 10 next-generation Iridium telecommunications satellites were sent into orbit today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg… Read More

FCC approves SpaceX’s plan to provide broadband services with Starlink satellites

The Federal Communications Commission says it has approved SpaceX’s application to provide broadband internet access via thousands of Starlink… Read More

Do rockets blast away the ozone layer? It’s no biggie today … but watch the skies

Thanks to Blue Origin, SpaceX and other space ventures, the skies could well be filled with rockets in years to… Read More

Elon Musk axes Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX (after finding out they’re there)

Facebook suffered another blow today: Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, had those two companies’ official pages… Read More

Elon Musk Q&A: First Mars spaceship is being built, with flight tests set for 2019

SpaceX is building its first Mars transport vehicle, also known as the BFR, and “making good progress” toward short-hop test… Read More

SpaceX sends Spanish telecom satellite into orbit with 50th Falcon 9 rocket launch

SpaceX sent a Spanish broadband telecommunications satellite into orbit tonight, marking the 50th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket. The… Read More