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Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched another 60 internet satellites into orbit Saturday from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched another batch of internet satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida Sunday.

SpaceX successfully launched another set of satellites into space after multiple delays due to inclement weather.

Southern California-based SpaceX set a record for the reuse of its workhorse Falcon 9 rockets Tuesday when it launched another batch of internet satellites into orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket used in Tuesday morning’s launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida has been used in five previous missions. It became the first to ever be successfully launched and recovered six times…

After Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted last week that the pyramids were built by aliens, Egypt’s former minister of antiquities and leading Egyptologist confirmed that they were in fact built by Egyptians.

SpaceX became the first private company to send astronauts into orbit in May. Darsha Philips reports for NBC LA at 11 p.m. Sunday Aug. 2, 2020.

Two NASA astronauts have returned to Earth in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown carried out by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company

NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday completing the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit.

Wrapping up a historic mission that marked the return of the U.S.-launched manned space travel, two astronauts who flew to the international Space Station in a capsule built and launched by Hawthorne-based SpaceX are scheduled to begin their trip home Saturday.

Before NASA’s first endeavor into space with a private rocket has even launched, the crew for its second joint NASA/SpaceX mission has been selected — and it includes an astronaut with San Diego ties. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, a UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna, will pilot SpaceX’s second Dragon flight to the International Space Station alongside...

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched a South Korean military communications satellite into orbit Monday from Cape Canaveral in Florida, in the process beating its own record for turnaround time in the reuse of a rocket. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at about 2:30 p.m. California time, following a roughly half-hour delay due to weather over Florida. The launch was originally…

For the second time in two weeks, Hawthorne-based SpaceX scrubbed a planned launch today of 57 internet satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Wednesday morning’s launch, scheduled for just before 9 a.m. California time, was canceled due to weather. SpaceX officials did not immediately announce a new date for the launch. It was the second time the mission has been…

Hawthorne-based SpaceX today scrubbed a planned launch of 57 internet satellites to allow more time for “pre-launch checkouts,” but a new date for the mission was not immediately set. The Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 1:18 p.m. California time. SpaceX officials announced at about 11 a.m. the mission was being…

For the second time in 11 days, a rocket from Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched from Cape Canaveral Saturday with a payload of broadband internet satellites. As seen on Today in LA on Saturday, June 13, 2020.

For the second time in 11 days, a rocket from Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched from Cape Canaveral Saturday with a payload of broadband internet satellites. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 58 Starlink satellites lifted off at 2:22 a.m. California time. The first stage of the rocket landed on a barge named “Of Course I Still Love You,” floating in the…

SpaceX’s debut astronaut launch is the biggest, most visible opening shot yet in NASA’s grand plan for commercializing Earth’s backyard. Amateur astronauts, private space stations, flying factories, out-of-this-world movie sets — this is the future the space agency is striving to shape as it eases out of low-Earth orbit and aims for the moon and Mars. It doesn’t quite...

Four days after ending a nearly decade-long drought in spaceflight originating from American soil, Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched another rocket from Cape Canaveral Wednesday, this time carrying a series of broadband internet satellites. The Falcon 9 lifted off on schedule at 6:20 p.m. California time. The rocket was carrying another batch of 60 Starlink satellites, adding to a growing array that…

It has been a busy spring for Southern California-based SpaceX. Four days after ending a nearly decade-long drought in spaceflight originating from American soil, the Hawthorne company will attempt to launch another rocket from Cape Canaveral Wednesday, this time carrying a series of broadband internet satellites. The launch window for the Falcon 9 rocket will open at 5:55 p.m. California…