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SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever constructed, exploded midair shortly after it launched in Texas. No one was on board the rocket today.

SpaceX and ULA are both scheduled to launch rockets from Florida on Friday, pending favorable weather. Here's when liftoff could occur.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink satellites on Memorial Day morning from Florida. See the photos.

SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data, forming the “backbone” of a rearchitected network after separate Pentagon initiatives stalled,

The most powerful rocket in history just roared off its launch pad in a spectacular show of power and technology. SpaceX launched the newest version of its giant Starship rocket Friday (May 22), from a recently completed second pad at its Starbase manufacturing and test facility in South Texas.

SpaceX plans two more Falcon 9 rocket launches before May ends from the Vandenberg Space Force Base. Both missions are to deploy Starlink satellites.

The Texas company will build a military satellite network for communications and President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense system.

With SpaceX headed for the public markets next month, industry experts and people close to Elon Musk are speculating about a potential tie-up with Tesla.

First is through space-themed ETFs. Retail investors buying across a basket of space-themed ETFs are now running at their strongest pace since 2021, per Vanda Research. The Procure Space ETF ( UFO) is emerging as a standout favorite.