SpaceX

Entrepreneur and business magnate, Elon Musk is the CEO and founder of the aerospace company SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors. He also hopes to change the world, advancing private spaceflight with the aim of landing humans on other planets like Mars, and developing a new tube-transport system called the Hyperloop. Live Science will keep you up on Musk’s latest ideas and developments so you can keep your two feet on Earth while looking up at the stars.

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SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft lifted off the launchpad on July 14.

SpaceX launched its 25th cargo mission to the International Space Station. Here's what's on board.

By Ben Turner last updated

On July 14, SpaceX launched its 25th cargo mission to the International Space Station, carrying supplies and equipment for NASA experiments.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 48 Starlink internet satellites launches from SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida on March 9, 2022.

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on 'American broomstick' and lands rocket at sea

By Mike Wall, Tariq Malik published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched 48 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit in the company's 10th launch in as many weeks.

An artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites in orbit. The company has won a U.S. military contract for missile-warning satellites.

How will Ukraine keep SpaceX's Starlink internet service online?

By Chelsea Gohd published

SpaceX's Starlink internet is now active in Ukraine. But how will they keep it online?

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 46 Starlink internet satellites to orbit on the Starlink 4-8 mission from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida on Feb. 21, 2022.

SpaceX launches 46 Starlink satellites, lands Falcon 9 rocket for 100th time

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX launched nearly four dozen satellites and landed the returning rocket Monday (Feb. 21).

A Long March 3C rocket blasts off in Xichang, Sichuan on October 1, 2010

Rogue rocket about to smash into the moon is from China, not SpaceX, experts say

By Ben Turner published

The object is set to hit the moon traveling at roughly 5,771 mph (9,288 km/h) on March 4.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Italian CSG-2 Earth observation satellite launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 31, 2022.

SpaceX launches Italian Earth-observation satellite, lands rocket

By Mike Wall published

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the CSG-2 radar satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Monday (Jan. 31) at 6:11 p.m. EST (2311 GMT).

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket carrying the NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft as it blasted off from Cape Canaveral in February 2015. The rocket will collide with the moon in a matter of weeks.

Out-of-control SpaceX rocket will smash into the moon in weeks

By Ben Turner published

The rocket stage has been tumbling through space for seven years.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Jan. 12, 2022, one day before it launched on the 105-satellite Transporter-3 mission. This photo was captured from space by a SkySat satellite operated by the San Francisco-based company Planet.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket spotted from space before and after epic 105-satellite launch (images)

By Mike Wall published

SpaceX has some nice before-and-after photos to mark the 10th launch of one of its Falcon 9 rockets, thanks to a satisfied customer.

An illustration of the private Nova-C moon lander built by Intuitive Machines with NASA's Polar Resources Ice-Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) attached to the spacecraft.

NASA picks landing site at the moon's south pole for ice-drilling robot

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA and Intuitive Machines announced the Shackleton Crater landing site for an ice-drilling robot.

The Crew Dragon Resilience splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, on Sept. 18, 2021.

SpaceX Inspiration4 astronauts return to Earth with historic splashdown off Florida coast

By Amy Thompson published

After three days in space, SpaceX's first all-civilian crew returned to Earth tonight, splashing down off the Florida coast to end a historic mission.

The Inspiration4 mission blasts off on Sept. 15, 2021.

SpaceX launches four civilians into orbit on historic Inspiration4 flight

By Amy Thompson published

SpaceX made history tonight as it launched a crew of private citizens on a jaunt around Earth.

SpaceX's Dragon CRS-23 cargo ship is seen with a bright blue Earth as a backdrop by a camera on the International Space Station during its docking approach on Aug. 30, 2021.

SpaceX's Dragon docks at ISS in time for astronaut's birthday

By Mike Wall published

The robotic Dragon capsule delivered about 4,800 lbs. (2,200 kilograms) of supplies and scientific gear to the orbiting lab.

SpaceX selected for future moon missions.

NASA halts human moon lander work with SpaceX amid Blue Origin lawsuit

By Meghan Bartels published

NASA must again stop work on its human moon lander partnership with SpaceX due to a Blue Origin lawsuit, further risking the agency's tight timeline to return astronauts to the moon.

SpaceX's first orbital Starship SN20 is stacked atop its massive Super Heavy Booster 4 for the first time on Aug. 6, 2021 at the company's Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas. They stood 395 feet tall, taller than NASA's Saturn V moon rocket.

SpaceX's Starship could be ready for 1st orbital test flight 'in a few weeks,' Elon Musk says

By Mike Wall published

But don't expect it to actually launch so soon.

SpaceX's Starship prototype in black-and-white.

The story behind black-and-white photo of SpaceX's Starship

By Elizabeth Howell published

Here's the historical significance of the black-and-white photo that Elon Musk tweeted showing SpaceX's next Starship prototype.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon CRS-22 cargo ship for NASA launches toward the International Space Station from Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on June 3, 2021.

SpaceX launches new solar arrays to space station, nails rocket landing at sea

By Amy Thompson published

SpaceX launched its 17th rocket of the year today (June 3), sending a robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station before nailing a landing at sea.

Baby bobtail squid just hours after hatching.

Glow-in-the-dark baby squid and tardigrades to be blasted into space

By Ben Turner published

Scientists hope to identify the genes that the animals use to adapt to extreme environments.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink internet satellites launches on a record 10th flight from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on May 9, 2021.

SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites in record 10th liftoff (and landing) of reused rocket

By Amy Thompson published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit early Sunday (May 9) and stuck a landing in a record 10th flight.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on the Starlink 24 mission, on April 28, 2021, at 11:44 p.m. EDT (0344 April 29 GMT).

SpaceX rocket launches another 60 Starlink satellites, nails its 7th landing at sea

By Amy Thompson published

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit on Wednesday evening (April 28) and nailed a landing at sea to top off a successful mission.

SpaceX's Crew-2 Crew Dragon Endeavour arrives at the International Space Station with four astronauts aboard in a smooth docking on April 24, 2021 one day after launching into orbit.

A piece of space junk zipped by SpaceX's Dragon capsule on its way to the space station

By Tariq Malik published

A piece of space debris passed unexpectedly close by SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule as it ferried four Crew-2 astronauts to the International Space Station.