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Space Business: Shade Room

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Is Intuitive Machines the last space SPAC?

The NASA contractor will go public through a merger with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp.

SpaceX launches a mission to the International Space Station

A Dragon spacecraft will return to the International Space Station for the third time tomorrow, after today’s planned launch was delayed due to bad weather high above Florida.

SpaceX will launch the first tourists to orbit since 2009

Four paying passengers will ride a SpaceX rocket into orbit on Sept. 15, becoming the first tourists in orbit in more than a decade and kick-starting a new era of private activity in low-earth orbit.

Is SpaceX versus China the only space race that matters?

The private capital fueling the space race in the US still hasn’t produced a competitor to pressure SpaceX, whose primary rival may be China’s space program, not other businesses in the US and Europe, or Russia’s space program.

SpaceX is offering to service the Hubble Space Telescope for cheap

A private SpaceX mission could enable the orbital science mission for another decade

The space economy is booming — with SpaceX in front and Boeing falling behind

A series of new reports reveal just how quickly the space industry is growing

SpaceX takes its biggest step toward flying people into space

A long-awaited dress rehearsal for the US return to human spaceflight is slated for the wee hours of Saturday morning, with everything in place but the astronauts.

SpaceX takes its first step toward selling Americans internet from space

SpaceX aims to launch two satellites of a new constellation on Feb. 18, the start of a network it expects to one day include more than 4,000 orbiting spacecraft beaming the internet to customers below—and generating billions of dollars in new revenue for the rocket maker.

Why space is the place for supply chain haste

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A SPAC for space tugs will go public in 2021

To make getting into space as cheap as possible, rocket builders try to pack in as many satellites as possible. But what if they’e not all going to the same orbit? Just like you might need to ride a bike from the metro station to get to your final destination, satellites sometimes need a “last mile” solution too.

SpaceX has finally launched its Polaris Dawn mission for the first private space walk

The mission is crewed by billionaire Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers, and a retired pilot

SpaceX has flown more people to space than China has

With the launch of four passengers to the International Space Station today, Elon Musk’s space company has put more humans in orbit than China.

How Boeing lost the space race to Elon Musk's SpaceX

Boeing was so focused on making money that it got clobbered

SpaceX photobombed the Moon. Check out the week's best space images

See an incoming comet and stunning new views from the ISS.

SpaceX breaks two records in its latest mission to the International Space Station

With its ninth mission to the International Space Station (ISS) today (July 18), SpaceX has reached two significant milestones. It returned an orbital rocket booster to a Cape Canaveral, Florida landing pad for the second time. And it eclipsed its own record for most rockets launched in a year, making seven successful missions in 2016 so far.

NASA has given SpaceX the order to transport astronauts into space in 2017

The next frontier of space travel is coming.

Jeff Bezos’ space company is finally catching up with SpaceX and Elon Musk

Blue Origin, the space company started by billionaire and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is finally catching up to Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the next generation rockets business.

SpaceX says it will fly two space tourists around the moon in 2018

Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of the rocket company SpaceX, says that two private individuals have hired his firm to fly a manned mission around the moon in late 2018.