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Tuesday, Apr 23

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SpaceX’s Special Starship Cargo Lander Capacity Revealed By NASA Ahead Of Fourth Starship Test

wccftech.com

Ahead of the fourth test flight of its Starship rocket, SpaceX has started to work with NASA to develop a cargo variant of the Starshiup HLS lunar lander. SpaceX was awarded a multi-billion dollar contract by NASA to land the first crew on…

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SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing

www.theregister.com

Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages

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SpaceX launch this evening would mark 300th booster landing if successful

phys.org

SpaceX is set to send up the 30th launch on the Space Coast this year targeting an evening liftoff Tuesday that would see the 300th booster recovery if successful.

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SpaceX completes 300th Falcon booster landing during Starlink mission

spaceflightnow.com

The mission was the 30th orbital launch from Florida in 2024. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 happened at 6:17 p.m. EDT (2217 UTC).

Dying SpaceX rocket tears blood-red 'hole' in the sky over Texas — again

www.livescience.com

On April 10, a bright red atmospheric "hole" was spotted in the night sky above Texas shortly after SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into space. It is the latest example of an increasingly common phenomenon caused by the company's…

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Elon Musk and SpaceX set to hit rocket milestone with Starlink satellite launch

www.marketwatch.com

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing to launch 23 Starlink satellites atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida Tuesday in what will be an important milestone for the private space company.

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The SpaceX Land Swap Is Only the Latest Texas Public Park Giveaway

www.texasobserver.org

Whenever SpaceX rockets blast off from the sandy property that Elon Musk controls near Brownsville, the road to Boca Chica Beach—including Boca Chica State Park—closes by order of the county judge (as well as other days when the company…

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SpaceX launching 23 Starlink satellites from Florida this evening

www.space.com

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will send 23 more of the company's Starlink internet satellites skyward today (April 23), if all goes according to plan.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Injury Rates Exceed Industry Average Again, Raising Concerns For NASA And Clients: Report

www.benzinga.com

Elon Musk‘s SpaceX has reported injury rates that surpass the industry average for the second consecutive year. This could potentially raise concerns for the company’s clients, including NASA.

Injury rates for Musk’s SpaceX exceed industry average for second year

www.thehindu.com

The 2023 records, also show that injury rates at some SpaceX facilities grew worse than those the company had reported in 2022.

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Launch Roundup: SpaceX lands its 300th booster, NASA tests a solar sail, and China launches three more taikonauts

During the last full week of April, planned launches include two Starlink missions and another…

Monday, Apr 22

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Treviño: Brownsville will eventually annex SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility

riograndeguardian.com

Brownsville City Attorney Will Treviño discusses a proposition currently being voted on by Brownsville residents: the creation of the Greater Brownsville Municipal Development District.

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Inversion set to launch reentry demonstrator with SpaceX this October

www.spacedaily.com

Inversion, established in 2021 to innovate rapid terrestrial delivery via reentry vehicles, has set Ray, its pilot technology demonstrator, for an upcoming launch aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9. Slated for the Transporter-12 Rideshare mission,…

Saturday, Apr 20

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Experts Suggest Using SpaceX's Starship to Rescue Stranded Samples on Surface of Mars

futurism.com

NASA's highly ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission is on thin ice. An independent review board balked at the Mars Sample Return mission's "unrealistic" budget last year, highly complex mission design, and glaring management failures.…

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SpaceX, Northrop Grumman reportedly working on US spy sat program

www.theregister.com

LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind

Friday, Apr 19

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South Padre Island residents talk living through SpaceX launches

www.mysanantonio.com

'It's like a very close extended rumble of thunder,' one resident said.

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Lueders: State Highway 4 is crucial to SpaceX’s Starbase facility

riograndeguardian.com

Starbase's general manager gives an overview of development of SpaceX's rocket launching facility at Boca Chica.

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Constellation of Starlink satellites grows with latest SpaceX launch from Florida

www.upi.com

SpaceX launched a cluster of 23 satellites into low-Earth orbit Thursday, the 334th launch of the company's Starlink Internet satellites and the 268th time a reusable booster rocket has been used.

Inside SpaceX’s plans to build network of spy satellites as US Space Force looks to take on Chinese ‘kill web’

SPACEX is reportedly building a fleet of spy satellites, with defence giant Northrop Grumman, as part of a secret deal with a US intelligence agency.