Elon Musk posted videos of SpaceX test-firing its new Raptor rocket engine for the first time, later sharing a photo of a second test. The engine is a crucial part of the Starship launch system, which SpaceX hopes will rocket humans to the moon, Mars, and beyond. A space-industry analyst […]

Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, has built a prototype of a stainless-steel rocket ship in southern Texas. People who live near the site reported on Wednesday morning that the vehicle, known as the “test hopper,” was blown over by powerful gusts of wind. Musk and SpaceX confirmed those reports, saying […]

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, is laying off about 10% of its workforce. In a notice required by California law, the company said it was eliminating 577 positions at its headquarters in Los Angeles. Business Insider compiled that data into two charts that summarize the roles and […]

Elon Musk has shared an illustration and a photograph of a SpaceX steel rocket ship with a mirror-like finish. This week, SpaceX finished building the vehicle, which Musk called the “test hopper.” The test hopper is a squat version of a full-scale Starship: a spaceship that’s being designed to send […]

Elon Musk shared pictures on Twitter showing the construction of a prototype of SpaceX’s massive Mars-bound spaceship at a launch site in Texas. The 180-foot-tall Starship, previously known as the Big Falcon Spaceship, is being designed to ultimately carry humans to Mars. Musk also said Starship has a 60% chance […]

Elon Musk said SpaceX is building a “test hopper” vehicle in Texas that could launch by March or April. The vehicle is a squat version of a full-scale Starship spaceship – one that’s being designed to reach Mars as part of the Big Falcon Rocket system. Photos taken by locals […]

Elon Musk‘s rocket company, SpaceX, is raising another $US500 million in investments, the Wall Street Journal reported. That means SpaceX could end 2018 with $US1.257 billion in new funds, since the company already raised $US507 million investment in April and got a $US250 million loan in November. SpaceX will likely […]

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said a “radical change” is coming to the design of the company’s reusable Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) for deep-space travel. On Monday, Musk released new details about the BFR redesign and renamed the system’s two main parts to “Starship” and “Super Heavy.” SpaceX‘s current […]

Elon Musk and his company SpaceX have been working on a gigantic, 387-foot-long spacecraft that’s designed to eventually send humans to Mars. The spacecraft has been dubbed Big Falcon Rocket (BFR for short), but Musk posted on Twitter on Monday that the rocket now has a new name: Starship. SpaceX […]

NASA is building a super-heavy-lift rocket called the Space Launch System to send astronauts back to the moon. The SLS program has seen multiple delays and cost overruns, and the rocket is not reusable. Elon Musk’s and Jeff Bezos’ aerospace companies,SpaceX and Blue Origin, are developing comparable yet reusable (and […]

Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, is building a gigantic rocketship to reach Mars. The Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR, will use a fully reusable booster and a fully reusable spaceship. In SpaceX’s “final’ design, the two-part launch system stands about 387 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter. We created […]

Elon Musk is hell-bent on colonizing Mars. That’s the spirit with which he founded SpaceX, his rocket company, in 2002. Musk was frustrated that NASA wasn’t doing more to get people to the red planet – and concerned that a backup plan for humanity wasn’t being developed (for when Earth […]

Elon Musk recently announced plans to launch a Japanese billionaire around the moon in a new SpaceX launch system. Musk shared new illustrations of the system, called Big Falcon Rocket or BFR, along with photographs of its hardware. The pictures reveal some of the techniques SpaceX is using to construct […]

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, plans to fly a Japanese billionaire around the moon in 2023 inside a new rocket ship. But the launch system, called Big Falcon Rocket, is ultimately designed to colonize Mars. In September 2016 and 2017, Musk revealed new details and updates about his Mars […]

HAWTHORNE, California – Elon Musk has finally revealed the person who is paying SpaceX untold millions to have the rocket company launch a private mission around the moon. Yasuka Maezawa, or “MZ” as SpaceX‘s newest benefactor prefers to be called, is a Japanese entrepreneur, art collector, billionaire, and skateboarder who […]

Elon Musk, founder of the rocket company SpaceX, announced on Monday that Yusaku Maezawa is slated to become the first private passenger on a voyage to the moon. Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire and art collector, purchased all the seats on SpaceX’s first lunar mission – an investment that’s helping fund […]

On Monday, Elon Musk announced the first passenger for SpaceX’s first tourist flight around the moon: Japanese billionaire and art collector Yusaku Maezawa. Maezawa bought all the seats on the flight – which will use SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket launch system – in order to invite artists to accompany him […]