SpaceX and xAI have formally announced that they are merging. A statement from SpaceX Elon Musk said: “SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world’s foremost real-time information and free speech platform. This marks not just […]

SpaceX has filed an ambitious application with the FCC to launch and orbit 1 million new satellites. The filing was dated January 30th. The new fleet, if approved, would orbit at between 500 and 2,000 kms altitude and be spaced 50 kms apart from one another. Each satellite would be equipped with laser links for […]

SpaceX’s massive Starship is set for its latest test flight today [October 13th], its eleventh, in the early evening Texas (CT) time. The mega-rocket is listed to launch at 7:15pm EDT (23.15 GMT) subject to the usual weather and last-minute technical considerations. Flight 11 will be the fifth Starship launch this year. SpaceX hopes to […]

SpaceX’s next flight of its giant Starship (test flight 11) is likely to launch on October 13th. The date has been confirmed by SpaceX, and the US Coast Guard’s local Notice to Mariners talks of the flight taking place between 6.15pm and 8.22pm on the 13th (US Central Time), but the Coast Guard also lists […]

A report from ARK Investment Management forecasts that Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship business, which carried out its tenth test flight on August 26th, is likely to be valued at some $2.5 trillion (€2.1tn) by the end of the decade. The rocket’s upper Starship spacecraft, which is designed to one day carry cargo or humans to […]

SpaceX’s massive Starship finally launched at 18.30pm Texas-time on August 26th in a near-flawless test flight. The flight, dubbed #10, pulled off a successful mission after months of explosive mishaps. SpaceX made clear that the Super Heavy booster performed as intended, making a controlled splashdown in the Gulf minutes after liftoff from South Texas. During […]

Today (August 26th) could be the day when SpaceX successfully launches its #10 Starship test flight, postponed from August 24th for a technical problem and again on August 25th because of bad weather. But SpaceX president, Gwynne Shotwell, is predicting a rapid increase in Starship’s launch rate predicting around 400 launches over the next four […]

SpaceX has said that its Test Flight #10 of its massive Starship is officially targeting August 24th for its launch from its Starbase in South Texas. Weather and other external events may delay the launch. Elon Musk’s space company says that it has removed one of the key landing fins used to guide the Super […]

Elon Musk says his troubled Starship giant rocket is on track to launch again in early August. Starship has had a challenging gestation. The massive rocket, which comprises the ‘Super Heavy’ lower booster stage and the Starship upper stage, has launched nine times to date. The rocket has at its key aim the lowering of […]

A supposedly routine static test firing of a SpaceX Starship rocket ended in a gigantic ball of flame in a huge explosion at Elon Musk’s Starbase facility in South Texas. In a statement, SpaceX said the rocket suffered “a major anomaly” while on a test stand at Starbase. “A safety clear area around the site […]