Articles about SpaceX – Page 10 of 17

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

SpaceX launches its first Starlink internet satellites (and Spain’s Paz satellite, too)

SpaceX put its first two prototype Starlink broadband satellites into orbit along with a Spanish radar imaging satellite today. The… Read More

SpaceX set to launch first prototype Starlink satellites for global internet

The first test satellites for SpaceX’s global internet constellation are being prepped for launch — three years after SpaceX CEO… Read More

Did NASA pass up SpaceX offer for Falcon Heavy payload? Former NASA official raises questions

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk makes it sound as if he always wanted to put a Tesla Roadster, and not much… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff talks about his investments in SpaceX and other ventures

Zillow Group has just reported an eye-popping $1 billion in annual revenue — but the Seattle-based real estate data company’s CEO,… Read More

Good news for Starman: Spacefaring Tesla Roadster will miss Mars and asteroids

It took a day or two, but astronomers have figured out where the Tesla Roadster launched into deep space aboard… Read More

Dramatic photos of historic SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch from GeekWire camera 1,200 feet away

[Editor’s Note: This post has been updated with additional pictures, including the one above, retrieved Wednesday from a third camera… Read More

Elon Musk marvels at Falcon Heavy’s triumph, looks ahead to bigger rocket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, says that even he was surprised by how successful the first flight… Read More

Internet users – including Donald Trump – are over the moon about SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket didn’t blow up on the launch pad, but it did blow up the internet. More than… Read More

SpaceX launches its Falcon Heavy rocket for first time, putting a sports car (and Starman) in space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s triple-barreled Falcon Heavy rocket rose into space today for the first time on a pillar of… Read More