News Archive / Author: Theresa Cross

Articles By Theresa Cross

• SpaceX successfully launches fourth batch of Starlink satellites

  January 29th, 2020

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX launched their fourth batch of approximately 60 satellites for the Starlink broadband network at 9:06am EDT, January 29, after carefully “evaluating extreme weather in the recovery area,” according to SpaceX.

• Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort’s successful completion clears way for crewed flights

  January 19th, 2020

  SpaceX successfully completed yet another milestone under NASA's Commercial Crew Program to send astronauts to the International Space Station - the In Flight Abort Test.

• SuperDraco engines set to be tested during SpaceX in-flight abort

  January 19th, 2020

  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- With the in-flight Crew Dragon abort test set to launch in less than an hour, let's take a look into the incredibly powerful and spacecraft specific SuperDraco engine.

• Processing of Starlink 2 booster underway, following return to Port Canaveral

  January 11th, 2020

  SpaceX's B1049.4 returned to Port Canaveral January 9, 2020 after the completion of its fourth flown mission delivering the third set of Starlink satellites into low-Earth-orbit (LEO). This is Spacex’s first launch supported by the newly-created U.S. Space Force and its forty-eighth successful booster recovery.