SpaceX has made a lot of headlines this year, but one of their notable advances is Starlink, their satellite internet service that can provide high-speed internet to remote people. The company now has only 1,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit that are helping to provide connections to all locations in Canada …
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Continuing its fast-paced launch, SpaceX on Sunday fired a Falcon 9 rocket with a powerful Next-Pay generation SiriusXM radio satellite, accelerating the California rocket builder’s 25th orbit flight so far this year. The first phase of the Falcon 9, making a record-breaking seventh flight, was struck by lightning at 12:30 …
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Welcome to a new and different space age: Elon Musk’s SpaceX took four NASA astronauts to the International Space Station this week – and brought Baby Yoda with them for good measure. Just 27 hours after the liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center over the Falcon rocket, the Dragon Capsule …
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The first two satellites in a multi-billion-dollar NASA-European project to accurately measure rising sea levels, a major result of global warming, orbited the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California on Saturday. By the time it takes for a cloud-infiltrating radar beam to bounce off the ocean 830 miles below, the …
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The force is strong with this team of four NASA astronauts, who have arrived at the International Space Station carrying a small spacecraft – a plush baby Yoda. Dragon Commander Mike Hopkins, physicist Shannon Waker, Navy CMDR. Sensation of Victor Glover, Japanese astronaut Sochi Noguchi and the Disney Plus show …
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