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That mission, Ax-4, is Axiom's fourth crewed flight to the International Space Station (ISS). It was slated to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on June 11, but a liquid oxygen leak discovered in the booster delayed things by a day. That was followed by the detection of another leak, but this time at Ax-4's orbital destination.
Elon Musk has long dominated the internet-providing satellites business with regular SpaceX Starlink launches. Now, Jeff Bezos is looking to compete.
The White House earlier this month directed the Defense Department and NASA to gather details on billions of dollars in SpaceX contracts following the public blowout between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk,
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Space.com on MSN500 Falcon missions! SpaceX sends 26 Starlink satellites to orbit on landmark launch"Falcon completes its 500th overall mission! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team for making the impossible possible on the road to rapidly reusable rockets!"
Originally built to support the Apollo program, Space Launch Complex 37 will soon be converted to a Starship launch mount.
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The first of two Environmental Impact Statements around SpaceX plans for Starship launch sites on Florida's Space Coast was released last week, and it lays out the company's plans to fly as many as 76 times a year from Cape Canaveral Space Station.
The role of Elon Musk's SpaceX in an ambitious new U.S. missile defense system is in question following the dramatic feud last week between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the project.
SpaceX states that its Falcon 9 rocket will send up Starlink 12-26 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:21 a.m. ET. The launch window will open from 11:21 a.m. ET until 11:44 a.m. ET, meaning SpaceX has during that timeframe to launch its rocket.
AndrenaM, an AI-enabled maritime tech startup, plans to double its head count and build hardware with new funding.