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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is grounded again after the vehicle's second stage did not come down in the expected area of the ocean, following an otherwise successful mission that delivered a Dragon capsule and its crew to orbit. “We will resume launching once we better understand root cause

SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet network is expected to hit a new customer milestone this week, company President Gwynne Shotwell told Texas legislators on Tuesday.  “This week, by the way, we will pass 4 million customers for Starlink, which is quite exciting,” she said while testify

Why use a rocket when you could use a giant, miles-long “gun” instead?  That's the question posed by Longshot Space, a company that's completely rethinking how to send mass to orbit. The company is developing a kinetic launch system that will gradually accelerate payloads

Cards Against Humanity (CAH) is suing Elon Musk's space exploration company, SpaceX, for $15 million after it allegedly dumped construction equipment all over the game company's private land in Texas.  An email, posted on Threads, went out to around 150,000 Cards Against Humanity Saves Am

A crew of four private astronauts made history in the early hours of Thursday when they opened the hatch of their SpaceX Dragon capsule and conducted the first commercial spacewalk.  The spacewalk, the riskiest part of the five-day Polaris Dawn mission, kicked off at 6:12 a.m. ET when oxygen

SpaceX has launched its most public and aggressive offensive against regulators to date, with a blog post published Tuesday urging more expeditious launch licensing — lest the country lose its place as the leader in the global space race.  Orbital launch is a tightly regulated industry gove

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off in the early hours of Tuesday morning carrying a crew that will attempt the first commercial spacewalk and travel higher than any crewed mission in 50 years.  The Polaris Dawn mission lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:23 a.m. EST after several delay

Goods are shipped around the world via roads, rail, and air. Why not space, too? That's the question posed by Inversion Space, a Los Angeles-based startup that's developing a reentry capsule that it says will be capable of autonomously landing anywhere on Earth to a football field-sized de

The world will have to wait a little longer to see Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket fly for the first time. That rocket had been scheduled to launch two spacecraft to Mars for NASA during an eight-day window that opens on October 13. But NASA announced on Friday that it was pushing the

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell made a public plea to one of Brazil's top judicial figures on Thursday, asking him to “please stop harassing Starlink” amid the ongoing battle in the country against Elon Musk's social media business X.  Musk has been engaged in a months-long dispu

Update: The day after technewss published this story, Firefly Space announced that Jason Kim is joining the company as CEO. Boeing's satellite maker Millennium Space Systems will soon have a new CEO. Jason Kim, the executive who held the position for nearly four years, has departed the comp

Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander failed to reach the moon because of a problem with a single valve in the propulsion system, according to a report on the mission released Tuesday. Company leadership said in a press conference that engineers have redesigned the valve and introduced additional

A holding company affiliated with an Emirati royal family is injecting a new joint venture between Abu Dhabi-based Marlan Space and startup Loft Orbital with over $100 million to grow the region’s domestic satellite manufacturing capabilities.  The joint venture, called Orbitworks, will

America's space industry seems mature, but the supply chain that provides all the parts and components for rockets, satellites, and other spacecraft is considerably less so. Gimbal Space is aiming to change that, starting with components in the crucial subsystem that enables a spacecraft to or