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On April 27, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into the night sky from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A, carrying the Galileo GM25 and FM27 satellites.
NASA has confirmed that SpaceX is on track to demonstrate in-space refueling of its Starship spacecraft by next year.
The first flight of the Polaris Program, led by Billionaire Entrepreneur and Astronaut Jared Isaacman is now scheduled for no earlier than April 2024, a delay of nearly a year and a half from its original plan of launching Q4 2022.
Capella Space, a provider of radar imaging satellites, has announced it will the the remaining two Acadia satellites on SpaceX rideshare missions in response to deployment disruptions caused by RocketLab's Electron launch failure on September 19th.
In an FCC filing made this week SpaceX is seeking "special temporary authority" to commence testing of there Starlink Direct To Cell service on December 10, with a testing period lasting 180 days.
Amazon has inked a deal with SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches with the missions scheduled to commence in mid-2025.
NASA is gearing to land humans on the moon for the first time since 1972 under the Artemis program; however, a recent report by the GAO reveals significant challenges that may impede the planned Artemis III crewed lunar landing in 2025.
SpaceX has acquired Pioneer Aerospace, a renowned leader in spacecraft parachute manufacturing.
SpaceX's proposed concept of operations for the Starship lunar lander under the Human Landing System (HLS) program involves multiple launches of the Starship/Super Heavy system, which will require rapid turn around of both Starship launch facilities.
On November 18th at 7:02am CT, SpaceX launched the second integrated flight test of Starship.
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