Earth’s moon is due for a human-made impact this August courtesy of a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage.
The Falcon 9 upper stage is left over from the launch that sent Firefly’s Blue Ghost-1 lander to the moon on Jan. 15, 2025 by way of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Also sent moonward on that flight was the Hakuto-R Mission 2, called Resilience, a robotic lunar…
SpaceX goes public with a mind-bogglingly historic IPO. The space industry may never be the same.
June 15, 2026
With the launch of SpaceX into the IPO frontier today, the space industry has its newest publicly traded juggernaut.
SpaceX’s initial public offering, or IPO, went live for trading on the Nasdaq today (June 12), riding on what you could call the “Elon factor” — the…
Big Short investor Steve Eisman said he would not be surprised by a Tesla-SpaceX deal, fueling speculation about Elon Musk’s next major move. The comments come as SpaceX IPO demand reportedly tops $250 billion.
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Big Short investor Steve Eisman said a…
SpaceX Starship Flight 12 live launch updates: 1st Starship V3 launch scrubbed, may fly May 22
May 22, 2026
SCRUB: SpaceX calls off 1st Starship V3 launch, may fly May 22
SpaceX just called off today’s launch attempt of its first-ever upgraded Starship V3 rocket due to a technical issue in the last minute before liftoff.
You can read our full story on today’s Starship Flight 12 launch scrub here, Nicki Minaj cameo and all.
“New rocket, new pad, we’re learning a lot about these new systems as we…
SpaceX fuels up Starship V3 megarocket for 1st time ahead of crucial test flight (photos)
May 13, 2026
SpaceX has fueled up the new variant of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever, preparing for a crucial test flight that could launch in less than a week.
The company assembled a Starship Version 3 (V3) vehicle for the first time over the weekend, stacking a Ship…
SpaceX just fired up its 33-engine Starship 'V3' Super Heavy rocket booster. When could it fly? (video)
May 11, 2026
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket may indeed get off the ground next week.
The company is apparently targeting May 15 for the test flight, which will be the 12th for Starship overall but the first for the new, more powerful “Version 3” of the giant vehicle.
SpaceX cleared…
With the Artemis 2 crew back home after their historic circumlunar voyage, attention now turns to getting astronauts back on the surface of the moon. But how are the landers that will make such an ambitious endeavor possible progressing?
NASA recently outlined a revised plan for Artemis 3, which has the mission performing a crewed test in Earth orbit in late 2027 rather than the previously planned…
ISS astronaut captures amazing video of SpaceX Starlink satellite train cruising above auroras
October 13, 2025
An amazing new video shows flashes of sunlight sparkling off a batch of SpaceX satellites, with a green aurora glowing just below.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit, an accomplished amateur photographer, captured the stunning “train” of SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites…
SpaceX pausing production of new Crew Dragon spacecraft
March 28, 2022
SpaceX says it will no longer build new vehicles of its Crew Dragon capsule, the spacecraft the company uses to take humans to and from the International Space Station, according to a report in Reuters. The plan for now is to cap the Crew Dragon fleet for carrying humans at…
