Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship event leaves a lot of questions around the company’s big rocket

Elon Musk delivered an update on the company’s progress and plans for Starship, its next-generation launch spacecraft, from the Starship development site in Boca Chica, Texas. Musk had an impressive backdrop — the combined Starship and Super Heavy booster launch

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SpaceX loses 40 Starlink satellites to a geomagnetic storm

Almost all of the Starlink internet satellites that a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried beyond the atmosphere on February 3rd won’t reach their intended orbit. SpaceX has revealed that a geomagnetic storm that took place a day after the liftoff

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SpaceX calls Amazon’s protest of Starlink plan an irrelevant “diatribe”

Enlarge / Amazon UK warehouse at Leeds Distribution Park on May 27, 2021, in Leeds, England. Getty Images | Nathan Stirk On Thursday, SpaceX called Amazon’s latest protest against Starlink plans an irrelevant “diatribe” that should be ignored by the

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Amazon slams SpaceX, tells FCC that Musk-led companies are rule-breakers

Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. In the ongoing battle between the two companies, Amazon fired back at SpaceX today at the Federal Communications Commission, claiming that the Starlink operator refuses to obey the

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Amazon urges FCC to reject SpaceX proposals for next-generation Starlink

Amazon is urging US regulators to reject an update to SpaceX’s plan for a second-generation Starlink system. Kuiper Systems, Amazon’s satellite-broadband subsidiary, says that SpaceX broke Federal Communications Commission rules by “propos[ing] two different configurations for the nearly 30,000 satellites

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Rocket Report: Webb telescope ready for launch, LOX shortage slows SpaceX

Enlarge / Estes is now selling a New Shepard model rocket for $69.99. Welcome to Edition 4.13 of the Rocket Report! While there may be a LOX shortage in launch, there is no shortage of launch news this week. So

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