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  • [New] SpaceX attempts another launch of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket that is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon later this decade - and Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars. The Times of Israel
  • NASA has given billions of dollars to SpaceX to develop Starship as a lunar landing system that could deliver astronauts to the lunar surface. NPR
  • Starship is designed to be fully reusable, and SpaceX plans to land and relaunch its Super Heavy boosters, as it does with its Falcon 9 rockets. Scientific American
  • While in space on its suborbital trajectory, SpaceX opened a payload bay door that will be used on later Starship vehicles for deploying Starlink satellites. SpaceNews
  • Like the first stage of SpaceX's trusty Falcon 9 rocket, Starship is designed to be reusable, and SpaceX plans to land and relaunch its Super Heavy boosters. Space
  • As part of NASA's preparations for Artemis, the space agency has made headway on a docking system that will be used by the lunar crew to move between the Orion spacecraft and the Starship Human Landing System, the latter to be built by SpaceX. Gizmodo
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA on the Crew-8 mission. Space
  • Elon Musk's SpaceX is expected to launch a crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) delayed from February. Observer
  • Called Crew-8, the upcoming SpaceX mission will launch four astronauts into orbit on the Dragon capsule Endeavour and Falcon 9 rocket from Pad 39 A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Space
  • April will see the launch of the first spy satellite manufactured in India by a domestic private company aboard a SpaceX rocket. PendulumEdu
  • SpaceX's current fleet of Falcon 9 rockets with boosters originally designed to fly 10 times, but with future boosters that might go up as many as 40 times, have brought the price of flying payloads from about $4,500 per pound to about $900 per pound. NextBigFuture.com
  • MethaneSAT, scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket next month, will survey methane levels over the world's top oil - and gas-producing regions. GizChina Media
  • As part of SpaceX's effort to launch 144 Falcon family missions in 2024, some Starlink missions could fly a reduced number of satellites to orbit while being able to return to the launch site (RTLS) and land on a concrete pad instead of using a drone ship. NASASpaceFlight.com
  • SpaceX anticipates deploying approximately 840 Direct-to-Cell capable satellites over the next six months, with ongoing launches to ensure a critical mass for commercial service by 2024. Drive Tesla Canada
  • Starlab Space has selected SpaceX's Starship for the inaugural launch of the Starlab commercial space station, a joint venture between Voyager Space and Airbus Space and Defence, with an anticipated launch slated before 2030. Space Foundation
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying the PACE satellite, short for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem just launched. SciTechDaily
  • In April, SpaceX plans to launch Polaris Dawn, a free-flying mission to LEO that will feature the first-ever spacewalk by a private astronaut. Space
  • If the $100 billion valuation round unfolds successfully, OpenAI will emerge as the United States' second most valuable startup, trailing only behind Elon Musk's SpaceX. FirstPost
  • Mission: The Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander carrying NASA science and commercial payloads will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. Yahoo News
  • Crew-8 will launch a quartet of astronauts aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft from Pad 39 A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, for a half-year International Space Station (ISS) rotation. Space
  • The robotic spacecraft will be ferried to Earth orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9, after which the cryogenic propulsion system on board will be used to hop to the Moon. News9live
  • With billions of dollars poured into space exploration each year by NASA and private companies like SpaceX, some researchers are concerned that a foodborne illness outbreak aboard the International Space Station could derail a mission. SciTechDaily
  • Though Musk and SpaceX have grand visions for Starship, including sending the first humans to Mars, NASA also plans to use the rocket system alongside its own SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis III mission, slated to launch as early as 2025. CNN

Last updated: 25 March 2024



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