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Global Space Economy Rockets Towards Half-Trillion Valuation Led by SpaceX’s 138 Launches Last Year
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Global Space Economy Rockets Towards Half-Trillion Valuation Led by SpaceX’s 138 Launches Last Year

June 11, 2025

Space is no longer the domain of dreams and fiction. Particularly regarding the Earth’s orbital zones, it’s a domain…

SpaceX Cancellation, Dragon Capsule in Limbo, and US Space Policy Completely Upended
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SpaceX Cancellation, Dragon Capsule in Limbo, and US Space Policy Completely Upended

June 6, 2025

When the SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule was certified to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station in 2020,…

SpaceX Polaris Dawn Success Heralds New Age in Spacesuit Innovation
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn Success Heralds New Age in Spacesuit Innovation

September 16, 2024

Early Thursday morning at 7:58 a.m. ET, members of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew successfully completed the world’s first…

US Intelligence Contracting SpaceX to Build a Satellite Panopticon: ‘No one can hide’
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US Intelligence Contracting SpaceX to Build a Satellite Panopticon: ‘No one can hide’

March 19, 2024March 22, 2024

“No one can hide,” one of five sources familiar with a classified program to construct a new global spy…

SpaceX Receives Contract to Send First Two Lunar Gateway Components into Orbit
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SpaceX Receives Contract to Send First Two Lunar Gateway Components into Orbit

February 12, 2021June 6, 2025

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will carry the first two of four components of the Lunar Gateway into space,…

NASA Gets Back to Sending Astronauts to the ISS with the First-Ever Commercial Space Flight
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NASA Gets Back to Sending Astronauts to the ISS with the First-Ever Commercial Space Flight

November 19, 2020

PICTURED: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission…


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