SpaceX has also retired Starlink satellites because of malfunctions in the hardware. In February 2024, the company decided to deorbit 100 Starlink satellites, citing a potential f

SpaceX on Wednesday night launched a Spanish communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and retired the first-stage booster rather than landing on a drone.

(WIFR) - A cluster of fireballs lit up the night sky Tuesday, as a SpaceX Starlink satellite entered Earth’s atmosphere over southern Wisconsin. This is a fairly common occurrence as 4 to 5 Starlink satellites fall out of orbit every day. But it’s rare to see them, as it needs to be at night with clear skies, and it must fall overhead.

Liftoff is scheduled for 8:34 p.m. ET tonight (Jan. 29).

Late Tuesday afternoon, Elon Musk put out a message on X saying that President Donald Trump had asked him to return the two Boeing Starliner astronauts who have been on the space station since June as soon as possible.

Starbase is an industrial installation built by SpaceX to fabricate and test a number of the company’s rocket types. The area around it is a unique and delicate ecosystem that includes estuaries and coastal grasslands, mud flats and more, where falcons, hawks, ravens, gulls and songbirds live.

The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical.”

Flight 7 Recap SpaceX launched Starship Flight 7 on Jan 16 in another afternoon launch. The initial ascent with Booster 14 was perfect, with no engine outs and the hot staging maneuver completed. While Ship 33 began its ascent burn, Booster 14 completed its boost back burn minus a single engine and received the “Go for Booster Return” call out.

MICHAEL BROWN is a Partner at Shield Capital, a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Security and Technology, and former Director of the Defense Innovation Unit at the U.S. Department of Defense.

Shubhanshu Shukla, an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer and ISRO astronaut, has been selected as the pilot for Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), a private spaceflight scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring 2025, NASA announced on Thursday.

Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore completed a record-setting 5.5-hour spacewalk outside the ISS, adding to Williams' impressive achievements. The spacewalk included the removal of a radio frequency antenna and collecting surface material samples.