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SpaceX once again shone on Sunday with an ambitious carpooling mission, hoisting no less than 143 small satellites into orbit. This is a new record for a single rocket. The booster then returned to land successfully at sea. The year is off to a good start at SpaceX. After launching a first batch of Starlink […]

This Saturday, SpaceX successfully launched a new cargo mission to the International Space Station. For the occasion, the company has deployed a new version of its Crew Dragon capsule. It is also the first time that two of these vessels have been docked to the ISS. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off this Saturday […]

SpaceX has just placed 58 new Starlink satellites in orbit. The company also acted as the driver for another company and broke the launch record for the same booster. In addition to setting up the first trade missions, most of SpaceX’s business involves launches of its own Starlink satellites. As a reminder, it is planned […]

This Sunday, August 2, a pair of NASA astronauts landed on earth the old-fashioned way, a parachute-held capsule fell into the Gulf of Mexico to end the first test flight for Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. For 45 years, astronauts have not landed on Earth with a parachute over the sea. It was the first time […]

Sending a rocket into space is not easy. After having canceled the launch of the Starlink due to technical problems, SpaceX returned to send its sixth batch of 60 satellites and managed to put it into orbit, further increasing its constellation for its broadband Internet system. The takeoff used a booster from the Falcon 9 […]

The companies SpaceX and Axiom Space have concluded an agreement which should lead to fully private manned flights to the International Space Station (ISS). The first of these flights will take place in 2021 and will embark three space tourists. New tourists on board! In June 2019, we were talking about the privatization of the […]

SpaceX will soon be able to start transporting its first crews to the International Space Station (ISS). A great first for the American company which has just passed a crucial security test. SpaceX has been working on ISS supply operations since 2012, but this year the company will take it one step further by transporting […]

Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a telescope that aims to study the polarization of X-radiation emitted by black holes and neutron stars. This mission, which is also associated with the Italian Space Agency, should normally be launched in 2021. And to do this, NASA relies once again on SpaceX. The launch of the Falcon […]

The unmanned spacecraft of the private company SpaceX crew dragon left for the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday. The aircraft and rocket making company launched the 4.9-meter long yacht at the Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The man has been sent to this autobiographical statue named ‘Ripley’ with this […]