Axiom Space signed a deal with SpaceX that added three more crewed flights to the International Space Station, bringing its total planned missions through Elon Musk's company to four.
Vandenberg has never been as busy as the US spaceports in Florida. But the growing commercial space flights pushed the west coast to plan and build infrastructures for more space launches in the future.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will bring Dragon spacecraft, filled with more than 7,300 pounds of research, crew supplies, and hardware to the International Space Station.
Elon Musk said interplanetary transport engines can generate 500,000 pounds of thrust. This is critical to SpaceX's intentions to assist NASA in its plan to bring Americans back to the moon and then even moving on to Mars.
As SpaceX grows its constellation of Starlink satellites for global Internet access, more and more of these space objects can be spotted across the night sky - and a superfan has developed a portal to help everyone track these satellites.
Arianespace, European launch provider, says SpaceX's Starlink complete satellite constellation could cause catastrophic satellite collisions in low Earth orbit.
SpaceX has asked the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to launch up to 42,000 satellites for the development of its Starlink system, putting pressure on its competitors. As of now, SpaceX has about 1,600 Starlink satellites orbiting the Earth.
NASA has assigned Kayla Barron as the fourth crew member and as a mission specialist for the agency's SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the ISS after failing to work out an agreement for the fourth seat with Roscosmos.
The launch of 60 more Starlink satellites Wednesday could give SpaceX enough spacecraft to complete the first layer of its privately-funded global internet network.
Elon Musk has said that humanity needs to get to Mars faster rather than later if we want to stop the imaginary 'Great Filter' which may lead to our extinction.