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SpaceX wants to test satellite antennas near Seattle

Posted on October 14, 2017 by

SpaceX has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to begin ground testing of a satellite communications system between its facilities in Redmond, Wash., as early as this month. Redmond is the base of operations for SpaceX’s multibillion-dollar effort to create … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk geeks out over his Big Falcon Rocket

Posted on October 14, 2017 by

SpaceX CEO says he “chickened out” and made the design for the monster spaceship he’s planning to send to Mars a little less monstrous — in order to make the concept a lot more realistic. He also confirmed that testing for … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk gets set for a big rocket chat with fans

Posted on October 13, 2017 by

Two weeks after SpaceX founder Elon Musk updated his vision for a monster rocket designed to take settlers to the moon and Mars, he’s due to take questions from his fans this weekend during a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session. The precise coordinates … Continue reading →

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SpaceX aces its second launch in three days

Posted on October 11, 2017 by

Good things came in threes for SpaceX today: For the third time, it used a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket booster to send a payload into space, and had that booster land itself on an oceangoing platform. Successful recovery of … Continue reading →

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SpaceX launches 10 more satellites for Iridium

Posted on October 9, 2017 by

SpaceX launched its third batch of 10 Iridium Next communications satellites from California today on a Falcon 9 rocket, then brought down the first-stage booster for a landing on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean. The launch was the … Continue reading →

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Sizing up Elon Musk’s big bet on a big rocket

Posted on September 29, 2017 by

SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s rocket roadmap just got much bigger than Mars. Now the question is, who else will follow the map? The first answers to that question may well start emerging next week, when government officials and space industry leaders — … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk has big rocket plans for … Earth?

Posted on September 28, 2017 by

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has added moon missions to his grand plan for Mars, in a bid to capitalize on what’s expected to be the Trump administration’s shift in space policy. Lunar operations at “Moon Base Alpha” are among the … Continue reading →

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