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A legal battle between Cards Against Humanity and SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company, over a plot of land in Texas has come to an end.
SpaceX launched its record-breaking 133rd Falcon 9 mission of 2025 today (Oct. 22), topping last year's tally with no signs of slowing down before the year ends.
Up to now, all 11 Starship launches have taken place from SpaceX’s Starbase site in southern Texas, but soon, additional Starship flights will take place a thousand miles to the east at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It's the 19th flight for the first-stage booster supporting the mission. It's expected to land on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean, meaning no sonic boom is expected to be heard locally.
SpaceX launched its record-setting 139th mission of the year today (Oct. 23). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 9:30 p.m. EDT (0130 GMT on Oct. 24), lofting the second and final satellite for the Spainsat Next Generation (NG) constellation.
SpaceX this week broke its annual launch record with its trusty Falcon 9 rocket — and it’s only October. Continuing with its busy schedule of launches, the spaceflight company successfully delivered the SpainSat NG II satellite to geosynchronous orbit (GTO) in a mission that lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night.
SpaceX will impose a miles-per-hour restriction on Starlink Mini use in the air, potentially forcing people to pay for a very expensive Starlink Aviation plan.
Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that the U.S. must win a race back to the moon with China, NASA looks increasingly unlikely to succeed, experts say. Meanwhile China insists it isn’t in a race at all yet looks poised to win the 21st century’s lunar scramble.