Blue Origin plans to offer cargo delivery services to the moon by 2023 as the company develops a landing system for NASA’s crewed mission to the lunar surface, GeekWire reported Friday.
Read More »Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX’s Starlink to Bring Point-to-Point Connectivity to Microsoft’s Azure
Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a three-time Wash100 awardee, discussed in a video interview posted Monday about the company’s partnership with Microsoft to bring the Starlink satellite connectivity to the latter’s Azure cloud computing platform.
Read More »Transcom Taps SpaceX, XArc to Help Assess Feasibility of Rocket-Based Cargo Delivery
The U.S. Transportation Command has partnered with SpaceX and San Antonio, Texas-based space architecture company XArc to conduct a research and development effort on the potential use of rockets to rapidly deliver military cargo.
Read More »SpaceX, Space Force to Reuse Falcon 9 Booster for Future GPS III Launches; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted
The U.S. Space Force has signed a contract modification that allows SpaceX to recover and reuse the first-stage booster of the Falcon 9 rocket for future missions under the National Security Space Launch program.
Read More »SES Taps ULA, SpaceX to Launch C-Band Satellites for FCC’s 5G Initiative
SES has selected United Launch Alliance and SpaceX to help send C-band satellites to orbit in a push to achieve the Federal Communications Commission’s goals to accelerate 5G deployment.
Read More »SpaceX Capsule, NASA Astronauts Return to Earth From Crewed Test Flight
NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken have returned to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft after spending 64 days in orbit as part of the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station.
Read More »Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX on Track to Crewed Flights
Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer at SpaceX and a former Wash100 winner, told reporters the company wants to send astronauts to space by May, CNBC reported Tuesday.
Read More »SpaceX Taps Axiom to Support Crew Dragon Flight to ISS; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted
Axiom Space and SpaceX have signed an agreement for the former to provide operational support for the Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station slated for 2021.
Read More »SpaceX Intends to Spin Off, Take Public Space Internet Business; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted
SpaceX plans to spin off and launch an initial public offering for its space internet subsidiary Starlink, Bloomberg reported Friday. “Right now, we are a private company, but Starlink is the right kind of business that we can go ahead and take public,” Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a three-time Wash100 award winner, said Thursday at a JPMorgan Chase & Co.-hosted event in Miami.
Read More »NanoRacks, SpaceX Form Rideshare Partnership; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted
NanoRacks is slated to field eight small satellites and a demonstration tool aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as part of a planned rideshare mission in 2020.
Read More »Air Force, SpaceX Test ‘Starlink’ Smallsats to Support C-12 Aircraft; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted
The U.S. Air Force and SpaceX are testing the capacity of the latter’s Starlink satellite constellation to provide encrypted broadband connectivity to military transport planes, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Read More »Intuitive Machines, SpaceX Partner for NASA Lunar Payload Mission; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted
Intuitive Machines is slated to launch its Nova-C lunar lander aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to carry five NASA payloads to the moon in 2021 under the Artemis program.
Read More »Industry Execs Talk Launch Companies’ Interest in Government Market at Conference
Executives from United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and other launch services firms discussed their companies’ interest in the government market during a panel discussion at the World Satellite Business Week conference in Paris Tuesday, SpaceNews reported.
Read More »SpaceX Reports Over $1B in Financing in Six Months
SpaceX has stated in regulatory filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its capital increased by more than $1B over the past six months, Reuters reported Friday.
Read More »SpaceX Unveils Starlink Internet Satellite Design; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted
SpaceX has released a photo showing a Falcon 9 payload fairing with 60 Starlink v0.9 satellites the company aims to launch by May 15 aboard the company-built rocket, Teslarati reported Saturday.
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