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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has predicted that SpaceX's Starship rocket would be able to launch every hour in the near future. Increased Launch Cadence On Wednesday, Musk quoted a post on the social media platform X,
SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket on Valentine's Day to add 24 satellites to its Starlink satellite network.
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The truth behind why SpaceX upgraded its launch pad
SpaceX did not choose to overhaul its Starship launch pad at Boca Chica, Texas, purely out of engineering ambition. The upgrades trace directly to a failed test flight, a federal investigation, and a long list of mandatory fixes that the company had to complete before it could fly again.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved SpaceX to expand its launch pad into Texas wetlands and to offset this destruction with a new mitigation bank.
Double delivery: SpaceX sends Starlink satellites into orbit on launches from California and Florida
The first stages from both Falcon 9 rockets landed safely on drone ships positioned in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The touchdown on " Of Course I Still Love You " on Saturday marked the completion of Booster 1081's 22nd flight. Booster 1090, which landed on "A Shortfall of Gravitas," finished its 10th reuse.
Satellite operator SpaceX has developed a novel space situational awareness (SSA) system called Stargaze, which uses 30,000 star trackers across its 9,600 satellite fleet to observe nearby orbiting objects and their velocities.