SpaceX launches another set of Starlink internet satellites
The launching followed back-to-back aborts last week, but it was smooth sailing Tuesday with a picture-perfect liftoff.
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The launching followed back-to-back aborts last week, but it was smooth sailing Tuesday with a picture-perfect liftoff.
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SpaceX has now launched a total of 713 Starlink internet relay satellites, with thousands more on the way.
Bad weather blocked a morning launch, but SpaceX pressed ahead with an evening flight.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, using a first stage making a record sixth flight, lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Tuesday, carrying 58 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit along with three Planet-owned SkySat commercial reconnaissance satellites. CBS Los Angeles reports.
SpaceX's Starlink constellation grows to more than 650 satellites in aggressive launch campaign.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks about the future of electric vehicles and what's needed to make them more affordable. Musk says he's hopeful that Tesla will accelerate the advent of electric vehicles over the next 10 years.
SpaceX CEO and chief designer Elon Musk says that the U.S. must regain its ability to launch humans into space in order to effectively further its space exploration prospects. Currently, the U.S. must buy rides to space from the Russians on the Soyuz, to which Musk says, "Being at the mercy of Putin is not a good thing."
The first operational Crew Dragon flight will carry four astronauts to the space station for a six-month stay.
Fortune magazine managing editor, Andy Serwer, joins the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts to discuss the criteria to be named, as well as some of the movers and shakers -- from Burberry's Angela Ahrendts to Amazon's Jeff Bezos -- that have found a place on the list.
ULA and SpaceX are expected to launch more than 30 national security space missions through 2026.
With the 10th Starlink launch, SpaceX has now placed nearly 600 internet relay satellites in orbit.
The Starship test rocket's single Raptor engine boosted the vehicle into the sky above Boca Chica, Texas, atop a plume of flaming exhaust and billowing clouds of smoke.
When the SpaceX "Endeavour" capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday afternoon, it marked the successful end of the first U.S. commercial manned space mission. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood joins CBSN's Lana Zak with details on the historic day, which had been 10 years in the making.
Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, two NASA astronauts, returned to Earth in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close out an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. Watch their landing and and commentary from CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood and retired Air Force veteran Colonel Scott Caine.
A 17-year-old Tampa resident is accused of being the "mastermind" behind the massive Twitter hack in mid July. The hacks targeted several high-profile accounts, including those of former President Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates.
The 17-year-old acquired more than $100,000 in Bitcoin during the recent hack, authorities said.
Over the next 10 years, Tesla will receive more than $60 million in tax breaks from the federal government and a local school district.
The Falcon 9's first stage previously flew in mission to launch two astronauts to the space station
High-profile Twitter accounts, including those of Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Kanye West, were hacked in an apparent scam asking for bitcoin payments. CNET senior producer Dan Patterson joins CBSN with the details.
SpaceX launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying an additional 60 solar-powered Starlink internet relay satellites into orbit. The rocket's first stage later successfully landed back on Earth for a record fourth time.
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The new GPS satellites feature higher accuracy and stronger jam-proofing to ensure reliability.
The Justice Department early Tuesday released tens of thousands of additional documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files, unveiling the latest group under a new law.
President Trump announced plans to build a new "Trump class" of battleships, part of the Pentagon's new "Golden Fleet."
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said the agency is pausing leases for five offshore wind farms "due to national security concerns."
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal is pushing for more information on a White House ballroom project championed by President Trump, sending letters to the project's architect and some fundraising dinner attendees.
A small Mexican navy plane on a medical mission crashed Monday near Galveston, Texas, killing at least five people.
A federal judge gave the Trump administration two weeks to submit a plan to either return a group of men previously held at a notorious Salvadoran prison to the U.S., or give them a hearing to contest allegations of gang membership.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill version of the weight-loss drug Wegovy.
Rifts over the direction of the conservative movement emerged during Turning Point USA's conference, as speakers attacked each other by name.
President Trump has responded to the release of the Epstein files, saying Monday that the release of photos risked ensnaring "highly respected" people with no connection to Epstein's crimes.