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fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

Southern California sky is lit up by Valentine's Day SpaceX launch

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg carrying 24 Starlink satellites, producing a visible sky spectacle and possible sonic booms across Southern California.
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fromTheregister
3 months ago

SpaceX resumes Falcon 9 launches after second-stage mishap

SpaceX resumed Falcon 9 launches after a second-stage deorbit-failure investigation while shifting focus toward building a Moon city within a decade.
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fromArs Technica
5 days ago

Rocket Report: Alpha Block 2 coming this summer; Falcon sets booster landing mark

SpaceX aims to move beyond Falcon 9 by making Starship the dominant launch system, driven by perceived impact to humanity.
Silicon Valley
fromArs Technica
6 days ago

SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket

Vandenberg Space Force Base is becoming SpaceX's busiest launch site as the company shifts focus from Falcon 9 to Starship.
Silicon Valley
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Sonic booms expected at rocket launch in Santa Barbara

Sonic booms are expected along California's Central Coast as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 45 satellites into orbit.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

A SpaceX rocket booster is on track to hit the moon at several times the speed of sound

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to collide with the moon in August, highlighting the risks of space debris.
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fromTheregister
1 week ago

Piece of SpaceX rocket to hit Moon, says astronomy code dev

A Falcon 9 upper stage is predicted to impact the Moon on August 5, traveling at over 5,400 miles per hour.
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fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound

A Falcon 9 rocket's upper stage is expected to impact the Moon on August 5, 2025, likely on its near side.
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fromArs Technica
2 months ago

SpaceX takes down Dragon crew arm, giving Starship a leg up in Florida

Pad 40 has been the primary Falcon 9 launch site for most of the rocket's history, while Pad 39A provided a location for crew launches and an augmentation to support SpaceX's growing launch cadence. But there are signs the Falcon 9 launch cadence, which reached 165 missions last year, may be peaking as the company turns its attention to Starship. And SpaceX has steadily reduced the time it takes to reconfigure Pad 40 between launches, cutting the turnaround time to less than 48 hours.
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fromArs Technica
9 months ago

With Trump's cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when they'll come back

The Crew-11 mission, under the command of Zena Cardman, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, aiming for a stay of six to eight months on the ISS.
Digital life
fromTheregister
11 months ago

Falcon 9 leaks keep Axiom private astronaut mission grounded

A liquid oxygen leak in SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has delayed the Axiom-4 private astronaut mission to the ISS, prompting necessary repairs before launch.
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fromArs Technica
11 months ago

Falcon 9 sonic booms can feel more like seismic waves

The increase in Falcon 9 launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base has led to growing noise complaints among local residents.
Researchers are examining the impact of sonic booms on communities due to increasing launch frequency and changing trajectories.
The ECOBOOM project aims to understand sonic boom effects to better inform the community and launch operations.
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