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SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites from Florida (photos)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites this afternoon (Nov. 7) from Florida's Space Coast.

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SpaceX's Starship Flight 5 rocket hanging from its launch pad after landing

SpaceX Starship launches: Flight 6 mission updates

By Tariq Malik last updated

Read the latest news about SpaceX's Starship megarocket test flights, launches, photos and more.

Launches & Spacecraft

SpaceX's Dragon is about to do something to the ISS it's never done before

By Elizabeth Howell published

The data from the reboost, scheduled for Nov. 8, will help inform design for a larger Dragon to deorbit the ISS.

International Space Station
A rocket launch carves an orange arc into a dark night sky in this long-exposure photo.

SpaceX launching 20 Starlink satellites from California early Nov. 9

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX plans to launch 20 Starlink internet satellites, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, from California early Saturday morning (Nov. 9).

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a huge rocket comes in for a landing beside its seaside launch tower

SpaceX targeting Nov. 18 for next Starship megarocket launch

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly for the sixth time ever on Nov. 18, on a test flight that will include another dramatic booster catch.

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European Space Agency reserve astronaut John McFall takes part in a parabolic flight on April 6, 2023 sponsored by the agency and Novespace, in Bordeaux, France. McFall is the first reserve astronaut with a disability.

Recruiting the world’s first disabled astronaut doesn't mean space travel is inclusive – here’s how to change that

By Sean Cullen, Ezgi Merdin Uygur, Vanja Garaj published

How can space agencies and “space tourism” companies make spaceflight more inclusive for disabled astronauts?

Human Spaceflight
Two scientists in white coveralls examine a black piece of space tech with wires on one end.

New NASA coronagraph will measure temperature, speed of solar wind from ISS

By Conor Feehly published

We're about to learn more about the solar wind, thanks to NASA's Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX), which just arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.

The Sun
The world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry, is shown during a press conference at Kyoto University in Kyoto on May 28, 2024.

World's 1st wooden satellite arrives at ISS for key orbital test

By Mike Wall published

LignoSat could help change the way we build satellites.

Satellites
SpaceX Dragon CRS-31 docked at the International Space Station on Nov. 5, 2024.

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrives at ISS on 31st resupply mission (video)

By Elizabeth Howell last updated

Dragon completed its docking at 10:04 a.m. EST.

International Space Station
a black-and-white spacex falcon 9 rocket launches into a night sky.

SpaceX launches 3 tons of cargo on 31st ISS resupply flight for NASA (video)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched nearly 6,000 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station today (Nov. 4), on the company's 31st cargo mission for NASA.

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