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In a quiet week for rocket launches worldwide, SpaceX has launched the 500th orbital flight of a Falcon 9 during its first of ...
Closing out a record-setting year, SpaceX launched a $186 million Israeli Earth-imaging satellite early Friday, the California rocket builder's 61st and final Falcon 9 launch of 2022 and its ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is set to lift off for a record-setting 20th time on Friday (April 12), sending 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is revolutionizing space flight with its reusability, setting new records for successful launches and reducing costs. "We have been paying somewhere in the neighborhood of ...
WASHINGTON — SpaceX set records for the reuse of its Falcon 9 booster and the mass that rocket placed into orbit March 19 with the latest launch of Starlink satellites.
Speaking of reuse, SpaceX set a new Falcon 9 record this year: On Dec. 4, the company launched a mission that marked the 24th flight for that particular rocket's first stage.
SpaceX's internal costs for a Falcon 9 launch are estimated to be as low as $15 million. So SpaceX has achieved a flight rate about 30 times higher than the shuttle at one-hundredth the cost.
Since 2010, SpaceX has launched 354 flights of the Falcon 9 rocket, including retired versions of the vehicle. The more powerful Falcon Heavy, which uses three Falcon 9 rocket boosters connected ...
That vehicle, SpaceX hopes, will ultimately have a much higher launch rate than even Falcon. “Elon [Musk] is like, ‘I want to launch 1,000 times a year,’” Shotwell said at the CSIS event.
This rocket was flying for the 26th time, as SpaceX continues to push reusability to new records. SpaceX video showed the rocket as it soared up through the clouds.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches a Crew Dragon capsule from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. The Ax-4 mission is the fourth private spaceflight for the Houston-based ...