Starship

SpaceX's Starlink revealed that it enabled real-time views of Earth during the sixth flight test of Starship. What Happened: Starlink, the satellite internet segment of SpaceX, announced via a tweet that it had enabled real-time views of Earth during the sixth flight test of...

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), has expressed confidence in sending uncrewed Starships to Mars within two years, carrying Tesla Cybertrucks and Optimus robots as payloads. What Happened: Musk said in a post on X that he is "highly confident" that...

President-elect Donald Trump may attend Starship’s sixth test flight from Starbase in Texas in person on Tuesday, as per media reports. What Happened: The Federal Aviation Administration has issued “Temporary flight restrictions for VIP Movement” over Brownsville in Texas, hinting...

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell said on Friday that the company is building 50-60 satellites per week as it builds its Starlink satellite network in low-earth orbit. What Happened: Starlink has launched over 7,000 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit to date. According to data from astronomer Jonathan...

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell on Friday criticized regulators for slowing down the pace of innovation at her rocket manufacturing company. What Happened: “Permissions are a different thing. Technology is easy. Physics is easy. People are hard; regulator people are the hardest,” Shotwell...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX on Friday postponed the sixth flight test of its Starship launch vehicle to November 19. What Happened: Earlier this month, SpaceX pegged the sixth text flight of Starship for Nov. 18. However, the company postponed it by a day to Tuesday on...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mocked Russia’s new experimental launch vehicle called the Grasshopper, saying it “looks familiar” to the company’s Falcon 9 rocket. What Happened: “Looks familiar,” Musk said in a post on social media platform X about the vehicle resembling...

SpaceX is aiming to reach a cadence of one Starship launch every two weeks “faster” than late 2025, company CEO and billionaire Elon Musk said on Sunday. What Happened: Starbase General Manager Kathy Lueders said at the National Congress of Space Activities held in Matamoros late last...

Elon Musk‘s rocket manufacturing company SpaceX said on Wednesday that it is planning the next and sixth flight of its Starship launch vehicle as early as Nov. 18. What Happened: “As is the case with all developmental testing, the schedule is dynamic and likely to change, so be sure to...

Elon Musk outlined a bold timeline for sending SpaceX‘s Starship to Mars, targeting a mission within the next two years. However, he emphasized that regulatory challenges could delay these plans. What Happened: During an interview with Peter Diamandis at the Future Investment Initiative...

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX turned on its Starlink satellite internet service for its first paying customer four years ago on Oct. 26. What Happened: The company announced the anniversary in a post on social media platform X. “Since then, we have connected 4M+ people, businesses and other...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday mocked what he termed as “overregulation” in the field of space travel on Sunday as he campaigned in Pennsylvania for former President Donald Trump. What Happened: Musk said on Sunday that his rocket manufacturing company had to study if its ambitious...

SpaceX‘s next generation of Starlink satellites will be so big that it can only be launched by the company’s bigger Starship launch vehicle, company CEO Elon Musk said on Monday. What Happened: SpaceX currently launches its Starlink satellites to the low-Earth orbit on its Falcon rocket...

In a recent post on X, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk outlined his vision for making life multiplanetary, emphasizing the need for a significant leap in rocket technology to reduce costs. What Happened: On Monday, Musk responded to a post about the cost of launching to low earth orbit. He explained that to...

Nearly 18 years after attempting its first rocket launch, Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Sunday caught the booster of its ambitious Starship launch vehicle back at Starbase with the arms of its launch tower several minutes after launch in a significant demonstration of the reusability of its design....