Science

Elon Musk denied recent reports that SpaceX was in talks with Saudi Arabia and the UAE for a potential investment round. In a tweet replying to a Teslarati report, he simply said, "Not true." Saudi Arabia operates a sovereign investment fund it ca...

SpaceX's Crew-5 splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, near Tampa, Florida, at 9:02 pm EST. It had undocked early this morning and spent several hours orbiting Earth and performing systems checks on their Crew Dragon, Endurance. This marks the end of th...

SpaceX launched a third payload of 40 OneWeb satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on March 9, 2023. OneWeb is a London-based satellite Internet service provider. With the latest launch, OneWeb's Internet-providing constellatio...

NASA and SpaceX successfully launched Crew-6 on SpaceX's "Endeavour" Crew Dragon on May 2, 2023. Early this morning (Eastern Standard Time), the Expedition 68 crew welcomed Crew-6 on board the International Space Station. A previous launch att...

SpaceX and the Polaris Program rescheduled the launch of the privately organized Polaris Dawn mission for summer 2023. Polaris Dawn will be the first of three scheduled missions in SpaceX's private Polaris program. A businessman named Jared Isaacman w...

SpaceX has introduced a "global roaming plan" that allows customers to access the Internet through Starlink from anywhere on land. The plan will require a $200 per month subscription and a $599 upfront fee for the Starlink kit. The kit includes a ...

NASA has announced that the International Space Station (ISS) partners have cleared Axiom-2 for launch and docking to the ISS. Axiom-2 will be the second crewed mission to the ISS. Axiom Space's first mission, Axiom-1, went to the International Space ...

SpaceX blocked Ukraine's ability to use Starlink's Internet connectivity to control its offensive capabilities, including its use of drones on the battlefield. Its reasoning? Starlink's capabilities were "never, never meant to be weaponize...

SpaceX tested more than 30 engines on the Starship booster as part of preparations for a planned orbital test of its biggest spacecraft yet. 31 of the 33 engines performed well in the static test. According to Elon Musk, technicians turned off one of the ...

A jury has cleared Elon Musk of liability in an investor lawsuit related to some 2018 tweets about taking Tesla private. Musk had said that the funding was in place to take it private and a deal was "imminent." Musk had mentioned that he could tak...

As a response to a query from NASA, SpaceX looked into retrofitting the Crew Dragon currently docked to the International Space Station to carry five crew members in an emergency. The solution: Move a seat from a leaky Soyuz to the Crew Dragon. The query ...

SpaceX signed an agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to have its Starlink constellation avoid interfering with astronomical readings. The agreement covers Starlink's radio transmissions, especially the 10.6 10.7 GHz radio band often u...

To support his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk sold billions of dollars' worth of Tesla stock. He also took out loans using Tesla stock as collateral. This had the predictable effect of causing a sharp decline in Tesla stock prices. Shareholders fil...

SpaceX is planning a funding round to raise $750 million at a $137 billion valuation. The round is being organized by Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that is better known as the digital asset startup-supporting company "a16z." Andreess...