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SpaceX fires employees involved in letter rebuking Musk
June 17 (Reuters) - Private rocket company SpaceX fired at least five employees after it found they had drafted and circulated a letter criticizing founder Elon Musk and urging executives to make the firm's culture more inclusive, two people familiar with the matter said. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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SpaceX met with NASA Artemis team at Starbase, Starship SN24 returns to the factory after a series of tests at the launch pad
NASA Artemis team members and agency representatives visited the Starship factory in South Texas to discuss the company’s progress. "SpaceX hosted NASA leadership at their Starbase facility in Boca Chica, TX, for an update on Starship, the human landing system that will carry the next American astronauts to the Moon...
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NASA to buy 5 more astronaut missions from SpaceX
NASA plans to buy five more SpaceX crewed flights to the International Space Station. The agency announced a "sole source modification" to its contract with SpaceX, which operates the only American system currently carrying NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The expected value of the modified contract was not disclosed in an agency blog post(opens in new tab) Wednesday (June 1).
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SpaceX president says in companywide email that she doesn't believe sexual misconduct allegations against Elon Musk
The company's president and COO defended Elon Musk in an employee email obtained by CNBC following Insider's report on the sexual misconduct claim.
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SpaceX's president predicts people will reach Mars before the end of the 2020s and land on the moon sooner
SpaceX's president and chief operating officer predicts that humans will reach Mars before the end of the 2020s. Gwynne Shotwell said in an interview with CNBC: "We should put people on the surface of Mars within a decade." She then added: "I think it will be in this decade, yes."
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Humanity will go to Mars 'in this decade,' SpaceX president predicts
A crewed Mars mission could happen sooner than you think. Astronauts will likely make it to the Red Planet's surface before the end of the 2020s, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC's Shepard Smith recently.
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SpaceX successfully returns four astronauts from the International Space Station
Four astronauts successfully returned home to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft today, bringing an end to their six-month-long stay on the International Space Station (ISS). After undocking from the ISS early Thursday morning, the crew dove through Earth’s atmosphere before splashing down underneath parachutes off the coast of Florida at 12:43AM ET.
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FAA delays decision on SpaceX environmental review for fifth time, says company changed application 'multiple times'
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has again delayed whether to issue SpaceX environmental approval of its suborbital launch and expansion plans in South Texas. The FAA said SpaceX has made “multiple changes” to its environmental assessment application. This is the fifth time the FAA has delayed its decision, with the final iteration of the agency’s environmental assessment initially due in December 2021.
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SpaceX: Can meat be grown in space?
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both want to colonise space. Nasa is also trying to put people on to the dusty surface of Mars. But if humans do want to set up communities on the moon or planets, what will they eat? Plenty of experiments have been conducted to see whether plants can flourish in space.
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SpaceX nabs 'eye-watering' wins against Russian hackers in Ukraine, Pentagon says
The U.S. military needs to take a page out of SpaceX's book in combating electromagnetic warfare, as Elon Musks's aerospace company has notched "eye-watering" wins against Russian hackers in Ukraine, Pentagon officials said this week. The first shipment of SpaceX's Starlink terminals, which connect to satellites in low-earth orbits, arrived in Ukraine just days after Russian forces invade the country and started disrupting internet service.
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Company that aims to race SpaceX to Mars plays with fire
There's a small rocket company based in eastern California named Pythom Space. And like a lot of space startups, it has big dreams. In this case, co-founders Tina and Tom Sjögren have the goal of flying to Mars in 2024—and if not then, by 2026.
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NASA science chief states he 'prefers' flight proven Falcon 9 boosters over brand new ones
If you would go back to 2014 and say NASA would be pro-flying reflown boosters in the future, I think many people would find you crazy. However, after the booster that flew Axiom-1 to space landed for its fifth time, NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen tweeted his preference for these reused boosters.
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SpaceX is launching South Korea's first spy satellite in 2023
Like it or not, the threat of conflict is rising. This makes it necessary for key global players to build and maintain state-of-the-art intelligence infrastructure that can operate independently.
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First all-private astronaut team lifts off for ISS in milestone SpaceX flight
A SpaceX rocket ship has blasted off carrying the first all-private astronaut team ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS), a flight hailed by industry executives and Nasa as a milestone in the commercialisation of spaceflight. The team of four selected by Houston-based startup Axiom Space Inc for its debut spaceflight and orbital science mission lifted off on Friday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Exclusive-SpaceX ending production of flagship crew capsule -executive
SpaceX has ended production of new Crew Dragon astronaut capsules, a company executive told Reuters, as Elon Musk's space transportation company heaps resources on its next-generation spaceship program.
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SpaceX launching 50 Starlink satellites, landing rocket today: Watch it live
SpaceX will launch 50 satellites and land the returning booster today (Feb. 25), and you can watch the action live. A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 50 Starlink internet spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today at 12:12 p.m. EST (1712 GMT; 9:12 a.m. local California time). You can watch live here at Space.com courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company. Coverage will start about 15 minutes before liftoff.
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Starship's advanced design is said to have NASA officials "sh**ting the bed"
Elon Musk recently provided the first big update on SpaceX's Mars-bound rocket, Starship, and its competitors are watching on with "a mix of awe and horror", according to a report from Politico. At his latest Starship presentation, SpaceX CEO Musk highlighted the fact that Starship will be reusable over and over again at a fraction of the cost of previous rockets. It's a development that threatens to leave NASA and other competitors in its wake as it launches to the proverbial stratosphere.
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Why Musk’s biggest space gamble is freaking out his competitors
Elon Musk is planning yet again to rocket beyond the status quo. And if he succeeds, the aerospace giants that won the first space race may never catch him in this one. Standing in front of the towering Starship rocket at Space X’s southwest Texas “Starbase” on Thursday night, Musk pledged that his most ambitious spaceship yet will make its first journey in the coming months.
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Elon Musk is hopeful Texas site will clear approval for Starship’s first orbital launch
"We have gotten sort of a rough indication that there may be an approval in March."
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NASA is concerned about SpaceX's new generation of Starlink satellites
NASA has raised concerns about SpaceX's new Starlink satellites, including an increase of the risk of collision in orbit, in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The five-page letter was submitted to the FCC Tuesday (Feb. 8) and was first reported in SpaceNews. The letter, which includes a separate one-page letter from the National Science Foundation, was sent on NASA's behalf by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
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