Southern California-based SpaceX has launched 60 more of its internet satellites into orbit, despite an engine failure shortly after liftoff.  Wednesday’s Cape Canaveral flight featured a Falcon rocket flying for a record fifth time. SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk said one of the nine main engines shut down prematurely during liftoff, but the satellites still made it to the...

SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in the next few months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff Sunday. No one was aboard for the wild ride in the skies above Cape Canaveral, just two mannequins. The nine-minute flight ended with the Dragon crew capsule parachuting safely into the Atlantic, after separating and…

SpaceX’s emergency test was a major step to launching astronauts into space from American soil for the first time in nearly a decade. As seen on NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020.

Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched another array of satellites Monday as part of its planned Starlink worldwide internet service. The launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida occurred on schedule at 6:19 p.m. California time. The Falcon 9 rocket propelled 60 satellites into orbit to add to the growing Starlink array, which was already 120 satellites strong. The first stage of the Falcon…

SpaceX launched 60 more mini internet satellites late Monday, this time testing a dark coating to appease stargazers.

The Falcon rocket blasted off Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The compact flat-panel satellites — just 575 pounds (260 kilograms) each — will join 60 launched in May.

The Air Force’s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission. The X-37B landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Sunday. The Air Force is mum about what the plane did in orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2017. The 780-day mission sets a new endurance record for the reusable test vehicle....

Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to carry a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars or anywhere else in the solar system and land back on Earth perpendicularly.

The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane just broke its spaceflight-duration record, NBC News reported. At 6:43 a.m. EDT on Monday, the robotic X-37B sailed past the program mark of 717 days, 20 hours and 42 minutes, which was set by the previous mission, known as Orbital Test Vehicle 4 (OTV-4). Read More

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched an Israeli communications satellite into orbit Tuesday from Cape Canaveral.

Bad weather in Florida Wednesday forced Hawthorne-based SpaceX to delay the planned launch of a supply mission to the International Space Station.

SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites early Tuesday. It marked the military’s first ride on a recycled rocket. Both side boosters landed back at Cape Canaveral, but the new core booster missed an ocean platform.

SpaceX has launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket pierced a layer of low clouds early Wednesday as it carried three satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

A SpaceX rocket pierces a layer of clouds on the California coast before its first stage lands back at Vandenberg Air Force Base Wednesday June 11, 2019.