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SpaceX is Elon Musk’s spaceflight company, known for its reusable Falcon rockets, the Starship program, and the Starlink satellite network. Coverage here includes launches, test flights, mission milestones, and the company’s ambitions for Mars. Follow this tag for the latest from the leader in commercial space.
SpaceX is putting a $100 billion Starship spaceport on 125,000 acres of Louisiana marsh, with ten launch pads and a first flight targeted for 2029. The laws that shield the project from public records requests passed three months before the announcement.
Forty feet beneath Launch Complex 39 sits a domed concrete bunker on springs, built to survive a fully fueled Saturn V exploding overhead. You reached it by jumping into a 200-foot slide. It was never used, and SpaceX is legally required to keep it.
Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package runs on 12 tranches of milestones stretching to 2035. A change-of-control clause buried on page five could collapse all of it into a single transaction, and analysts put the payday at roughly $824 billion. Here is how it would work, and why the odds are still against it.
Researchers at Kyoto University used the orbital drag of roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites to build the first tomographic map of Earth’s thermosphere, turning a commercial broadband network into a planet-scale atmospheric sensor.