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SpaceX launched another batch of U.S. spy satellites from California’s central coast tonight (Jan. 9). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight at 10:53 p.m. EST (7:53 p.m. local California time; 0353 GMT on Jan. 10) on the NROL-153 mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). NROL-153 was the […]

SpaceX is gearing up for the next test flight of its Starship megarocket, which is just a few days away. The company rolled Starship‘s 165-foot-tall (50-meter-tall) upper stage — known as Starship, or simply “Ship” — out to the launch pad at its Starbase site in South Texas this morning (Jan. 9). SpaceX founder and

A private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos has postponed the planned launch of its new giant rocket. Blue Origin was counting down toward the launch of its first New Glenn heavy-lift rocket at 1:00 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) on Friday (Jan. 10), but rough weather in the Atlantic Ocean — where part of

Blue Origin plans to launch the debut mission of its powerful New Glenn rocket early Friday morning (Jan. 10), and you can watch the action live. New Glenn is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday during a three-hour window that opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT). You

SpaceX’s Starship will fly for the seventh time ever early next week, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX announced today (Jan. 8) that it’s targeting Monday (Jan. 13) for Flight 7 of Starship, the 400-foot-tall (122 meters), fully reusable megarocket designed to help humanity settle the moon and Mars. Starship is scheduled to lift

An approaching wildfire has forced the closure of NASA’s lead center for robotic planetary exploration. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which lies at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains just north of Los Angeles, has been temporarily shuttered due to the Eaton fire, which is raging nearby. “JPL is closed except for emergency personnel.

SpaceX and NASA are now targeting mid-January for the launch of the private moon lander “Blue Ghost.” Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is now scheduled to launch to the moon at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) on Wednesday, Jan. 15, taking off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The

Kenya’s Communications Authority has proposed significantly raising licence costs for satellite internet service providers (ISPs) like Starlink. Under the new proposal, a 15-year operating licence would jump from USD 12,302 (KSH 1,579,614) to USD 115,331 (KSH 14,808,846), marking nearly a 1,000% increase. Additionally, providers would need to pay a yearly fee of 0.4% based on

India postponed its first attempt to dock two spaceraft in Earth orbit to allow more time for tests as the country prepares for what will be a vital technology tests for its future ambitions in space. The Indian Space Research Organisation‘s (ISRO) Space Docking Experiment, or SpaDeX, was expected to link up two small satellites

SpaceX launched the first batch of its internet satellites this year from Florida’s Space Coast today (Jan. 6). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 of the company’s Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 3:43 p.m EDT (2043 GMT). The Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth about eight minutes