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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a secret US Air Force space plane takes off NASAs Kennedy Space Center (Photo:AFP)

SpaceX launches 10 more Iridium Communications satellites

The satellites also carry payloads for global real-time aircraft tracking and a ship-tracking service.

10 Oct 2017 9:51 AM GMT

A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The Falcon Heavy, has three first-stage boosters, strapped together with 27 engines in all.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launched, puts sports car in space

With liftoff, the Heavy became the most powerful rocket in use today, doubling the liftoff punch of its closest...

7 Feb 2018 3:33 AM GMT

Space Xs Falcon 9 rocket prepared for a launch to the International Space Station in February 2017 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX poised to launch 'world's most powerful rocket'

SpaceX is bucking decades of launch tradition for the first test flight of its new megarocket.

6 Feb 2018 2:52 AM GMT

Amazon.com and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos (centre), his brother, Mark Bezos (left), Oliver Daemen (right) and Wally Funk (seated) experienced about three minutes of weightlessness during their first space flight on Tuesday. (Photo: Twitter/ @blueorigin)

AA Edit | New space pioneers

Waiting in the wings is Elon Musk whose company has greater reach in space already

21 July 2021 7:46 PM GMT

Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York. (Photo: AP)

Musk no more Tesla's chairman, remains CEO in SEC settlement

The settlement with the SEC allows Musk to remain CEO Tesla but requires him to relinquish his role as chairman for at...

30 Sep 2018 6:14 AM GMT

SpaceX regularly launches unmanned cargo ships to the International Space Station, and is working on a crew capsule that could carry humans into orbit as early as next year (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX launches top-secret spy satellite for US government

The leftover booster its job done landed next door at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station several minutes after liftoff

3 May 2017 11:21 AM GMT

paceX has made four launches and expects to make several more to complete the job by mid-2018.

Rocket lights sky as it carries satellites from California

The launch in the setting sun created a shining, billowing streak that was widely seen throughout Southern California.

25 Dec 2017 7:55 AM GMT

The attempt is part of SpaceXs effort to make rocket parts recyclable, rather than jettisoning the costly components after each launch.

SpaceX rocket to launch US Army payload

The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage will fly itself back to earth and will be reused for another launch

29 April 2017 2:40 AM GMT