SpaceX is reported to have a Starshield internet service contract with the US military. A congressmen has requested activation of the service over Taiwan from SpaceX. SpaceX and Elon Musk will provide an update by March 8, 2024 on the status of activation and operations. SpaceX says it is in full compliance with all of …
Tesla to unveil next-gen Roadster in late 2024. It’s a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX. Deliveries aim to start in 2025. 0-60mph time is expected to be about 1 second. The best street legal 0-60 MPH is with cars in the 1.6 to 1.8 second range now. Special drag race cars can get 0-60 mpg …
Chrome Kiwi and Youtube What About It? (Felix Schlang) show how SpaceX will add a water protection system to the top of the launch stand to protect it from being damaged during launch. The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship with improved engines will have three times the power of the Saturn V. SpaceX wants to eventually …
SpaceX plans to launch 144 times in 2024 and has already launched 18 times in less than two months. The space shuttle had 133 successful flights from 1981 to 2011. SpaceX plans to launch at least 9 Starship flights in 2024. SpaceX Starship could get close to matching the Saturn V launches. SpaceX Falcon Heavy …
SpaceX launched 24 version 2 mini satellites yesterday. Sunday’s launch was the 18th of the year for SpaceX. They aim to launch 144 orbital missions and 9 Starship launches in 2024. In Q3 of 2023, SpaceX would launch 22 Starlink v2 mini satellites in each falcon 9 launch. They increased to 23 per launch in …
A post was sent through a SpaceX Direct to Cell satellite in space. Starlink has over 5000 satellites in orbit. SpaceX will launch 2000-3000 Starlink v2 mini direct to cell capable satellites in 2024 on about 120 launches. On January 2, 2024, SpaceX launched to orbit their first six Starlink satellites with Direct to Cell …
launch-licensing process. “They’re looking at a pretty aggressive launch schedule this year,” he said. “They’re looking at, I believe, at least nine launches this year. That’s a lot of launches. If you’re doing modifications and doing them one by one, that’s a lot of work. We’ve been talking to SpaceX constantly around the clock, coming …
Elon Musk is currently expecting Starship to have its next orbital launch attempt in mid-March 2024. There are reports of several possible new SpaceX launch facilities. There could be a new SLC-50 or SLC-49 instead of or including the SLC-37 facility. The US Department of the Air Force is preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) …
There are some claims that surface to air missiles can shoot down SpaceX Starships when the US military starts using them in a few years for cargo missions. The people who make these claims have not looked at the specifications of surface to air missiles. A SpaceX Starship will be much harder to shootdown than …
The US military will need to build hundreds of Mechazilla launch towers by 2030. The US military is planning to get to thousands of SpaceX flights per year and this will mean that the US military will need hundreds of Mechazilla launch towers. SpaceX, the US Air Force and the US Space Force discussions about …
Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander had a good launch today on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The NASA payloads aboard the lander aim to help us learn more about terrain and communications near the lunar South Pole. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per …