The 23-story tall booster lifted off from a fog-shrouded Pacific Coast launch pad at 1:25 p.m. local time (4:25 p.m. EDT/2025 GMT). The first stage separated as planned 2.5 minutes later, turned around and headed back toward a drone barge ...

SpaceX has successfully launched and landed a recycled Falcon 9 rocket for the second time, according to The Verge. The rocket’s first stage — the 14-story-tall core that houses the fuel and the rocket’s main engines — touched down on ...

For today’s launch, the craft was filled with nearly 6,000 pounds of cargo including supplies, equipment, special telescopes to study neutron stars, mice, and even thousands of fruit flies. The craft launched from the historic Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad ...

“Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk said Thursday on Twitter, shortly after the US president announced from the Rose Garden that he would begin the process of ...

According to SpaceX, the next launch opportunity for the mission will be Saturday, June 3, 2017, at 5:07 p.m. Eastern time, according to USA Today. Dragon will attach to the International Space Center and will be the first re-flight of ...

Seated atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Dragon will lift off from the historic Pad 39-A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:55 p.m. EDT (2155 GMT), beginning its three-day journey to deliver cargo to the International Space Station, ...

The Falcon 9 is all set for a historic Thursday (June 1) launch from KSC’s famous Pad 39A that will send a used spacecraft skyward — a rare feat accomplished by just a few vehicles, including the Air Force’s robotic ...

The Inmarsat-owned satellite, built by Boeing, was originally scheduled to fly on a larger rocket, the Falcon Heavy, that SpaceX hopes to debut later this year, according to Quartz. Flying the big bird on a smaller rocket required some sacrifices ...

SpaceX has been promising to fly its next big rocket, the Falcon Heavy, for about four years now — but in a new video released Tuesday, the company revealed the vehicle may be finally getting ready for its maiden voyage, ...

The council, which meets every month or two, discusses a range of issues, and Musk says he brings something unique to the table, according to Business Insider. “In the meetings I’ve had thus far, I’ve argued in favor of immigration and ...

Shortly after the main section of SpaceX’s first recycled Falcon 9 booster landed itself on a platform in the ocean, half of the rocket’s nosecone, which protected a communications satellite during launch, splashed down via parachute nearby, according to Reuters. ...

The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this evening, sending a communications satellite into orbit, and then landed on one of SpaceX’s drone ships floating in the Atlantic Ocean. It was round two for this particular rocket, which already ...

Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company is going to take another swing at history today: for the first time, SpaceX plans to take a Falcon 9 rocket that successfully launched and landed in April 2016 and try to launch it to ...

The founder and chief executive of Tesla is simultaneously running both the automaker and Space Exploration Technologies Corp — commonly known as SpaceX. Now he wants to implant tiny brain electrodes that could one day lead to consciousness that doesn’t ...

The robotic Dragon cargo ship splashed down off the coast of Baja California where it could be swiftly retrieved by a recovery team, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Space.com. The space capsule left the station early Sunday after being released ...