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For a second time, Cameron County Commissioners Court discussed SpaceX matters behind closed doors but took no formal action. Juan Mancillas said lack of knowledge by officials about the history of the land that SpaceX wants to use is concerning. The Federal Aviation Administration in June released the results of its Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) of SpaceX’s orbital launch plans for the company’s Boca Chica site. The orbital launch would be many times more powerful than the non-orbital Starship test flights that have taken place so far at Boca Chica. The FAA said that it will require SpaceX to take more than 75 actions to mitigate environmental impacts from the proposed orbital launches.

SpaceX's Starlink satellites are providing data to NOAA to help improve space weather forecasts as spacecraft operators struggle with unexpected effects of frequent solar eruptions.

The FCC authorized SpaceX to provide Starlink satellite internet to vehicles in motion, a key step for Elon Musk's company to further expand the service.

The SES-22 relay station is the first of six new satellites that will deliver TV, radio and data across the U.S.

SpaceX will launch a commercial communications satellite and land a rocket at sea on Wednesday (June 29), and you can watch the action live.

The latest delay will allow teams more time to assess and mitigate the consequences of elevated propellant vapor levels inside Dragon's propulsion system.

SpaceX's massive Starship project was on the move last week, as its "Booster 7" Super Heavy rocket prototype moved to its South Texas test pad Thursday (June 23).

But the review issued June 13, which found no significant impact from SpaceX operations and proposals, is a major step toward getting permission to launch. The increased role for the local facility includes orbital launches — and the need for the level of permission from FAA, which made the mitigation process necessary. Agency requirements include new steps SpaceX must take to help maintain access to Highway 4 and the beach, rather than secure more closures as testing and launches increase. Permits for orbital launches have yet to be secured, but the environmental report is a major step. It likely will be just a matter of time before local residents will be able to see the Starship lift off on its way around the world.

Northop Grumman's robotic Cygnus freighter is scheduled to undock from the orbiting lab at 6:05 a.m. EDT (1005) Tuesday. Watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA.

Will roads owned by Cameron County around the SpaceX Boca Chica launch site be abandoned? Cameron County Commissioners Court this past week was expected to address this issue during a commissioners court meeting but tabled it instead. After going into executive session for about two hours, commissioners court tabled four items pertaining to the Boca Chica site that include consideration and adoption of an order to abandon a portion of Remedios Avenue, Joanna Street, Annette Street and Lucero Court, all located near the SpaceX Boca Chica site. In addition, the court tabled consideration and possible action to adopt a resolution regarding SpaceX Super Heavy Project at Boca Chica Beach. The orbital launch would be many times more powerful than the non-orbital Starship test flights that have taken place so far at Boca Chica.

An early Super Heavy-Starship failure could disrupt SpaceX astronaut fights to space station.

The new SpaceX facility would be the latest expansion of Musk's footprint in the Lone Star State.

Tory Bruno remade the United Launch Alliance to combat SpaceX. Will it be enough?

At the heart of the dispute is use of the 12 gigahertz band and the frequency's ability to support both ground-based and space-based services.

SpaceX aims to complete a remarkable hat trick early Sunday (June 19), and you can watch the action live.

SpaceX plans to launch a German military satellite and land the returning rocket on Saturday morning (June 18), and you can watch the action live.

A report in The New York Times says the rocket ship company run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fired several employees involved in an open letter that blasted the colorful billionaire for his behavior.

SpaceX boosted Starlink internet satellites from Florida on Friday, kicking off a packed weekend just after employees were fired over Elon Musk.

If successful, SpaceX will set a new U.S. commercial space launch record.

SpaceX has fired some of the employees involved in drafting and distributing within the company a letter criticizing the behavior of founder and CEO Elon Musk, according to media reports.

In what's been a particularly eventful year for Elon Musk, this was a decidedly rough week.

Placeholder while article actions loadSpaceX has fired employees who helped coordinate an open letter critical of chief executive Elon Musk’s behavior on Twitter and other public forums. She said the workers who’d coordinated the effort had been terminated, but did not say how many. Shotwell told employees that the concerns raised in the letter threatened to derail SpaceX’s focus on those tasks. “The collaboration we need to make life multiplanetary is incompatible with a culture that treats employees as consumable resources,” it said later. “Our unique position requires us to consider how our actions today will shape the experiences of individuals beyond our planet.

SpaceX has fired at least five employees involved in circulating a letter around the company that was critical of CEO Elon Musk.

SpaceX plans to launch one of its Falcon 9 rockets for a record-setting 13th time today (June 17), and you can watch the action live.

Tom Marshburn may not be the real-life Buzz Lightyear, but the space ranger — at least as he appears in the new movie "Lightyear" — would not be the same without the NASA astronaut.

A group of anonymous SpaceX employees say that founder and CEO Elon Musk's recent behavior reflects badly on the company as a whole.

In the letter, workers reportedly called for SpaceX to publicly condemn Elon Musk's behavior on Twitter and hold all leadership "equally accountable."

Musk also disclosed he voted Republican for the first time this week in a special election for a Texas congressional seat.

The first orbital test flight of the giant Starship vehicle could happen soon, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said.

SpaceX will have a Starship prototype rocket "ready to fly" by July, Elon Musk says, for a crucial milestone that is pending a regulatory license.

The crew for the first mission in the privately funded Polaris program is scaling new heights to prepare for their record-breaking SpaceX flight later this year.

The launch of SpaceX's next cargo mission to the Internationl Space Station has been pushed back at least two more weeks, to no earlier than July 11.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday released the results of its Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) of SpaceX’s orbital launch plans for the company’s Boca Chica site.

SpaceX has cleared a key hurdle for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic rocketship into orbit from Texas.

The FAA found no major show stoppers in an environmental review at a Texas launch site.

SpaceX can continue developing and testing its huge Starship vehicle in South Texas, provided the company takes pains to mitigate its impact on the area, a long-awaited environmental review has found.

SpaceX must take 75 actions to make its launch site environmentally friendly.

The Federal Aviation Administration released the long-awaited results of its Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) of SpaceX’s plans for Starship/Super Heavy launches from its Boca Chica site. The agency rendered a mitigated Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), clearing a major obstacle for SpaceX to go ahead with the launch, though a launch license has not been granted. SpaceX’s first orbital launch of a Starship/Super Heavy prototype from Boca Chica has been on hold for months while the PEA’s release was delayed several times. The FAA said it will require SpaceX to take more than 75 actions to mitigate environmental impacts from proposed launches. Fish and Wildlife Service, more advance notice of launches will be given to reduce the amount of time S.H.

The decision means SpaceX can next request a license from the regulator to conduct further Starship flight tests and begin operational launches from its private facility.

Tesla just filed its annual proxy statement with the SEC and revealed it plans a three-for-one stock split, and that board member Larry Ellison does not plan to stand for re-election. "We believe the Stock Split would help reset the market price of our common stock so that our employees will have more flexibility in managing their equity." A stock split of this nature could mean that more smaller investors feel they can afford the stock, but those investors are minuscule compared to major institutions. In its 2022 proxy filing, the electric vehicle and renewable energy business, also revealed that board member Larry Ellison currently owns 1.5% of Tesla shares. The filing also says that Tesla CEO Elon Musk currently holds 6% of Tesla shares.

Inrix is a transportation software company working on a world of autonomous vehicles and zero accidents, zero fatalities and carbon neutrality.

The new relay station will provide television and data relay service across the Middle East and Africa.

Elevated vapor measurements during propellant loading of SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule have delayed the launch of the CRS-25 mission to no earlier than June 28.

SpaceX will launch a communications satellite and land the returning rocket on a ship at sea on Wednesday (June 8), and you can watch the action live.

Investors eagerly awaiting the initial public offering of SpaceX's Starlink satellite-internet business will have to cool their heels for a while.

Elon Musk last week told SpaceX employees the company isn't likely to take its Starlink satellite internet business public until 2025 or later, CNBC has learned.

SpaceX's next cargo launch to space station delayed from Friday due to odd propellant reading

SpaceX's Starship vehicle will operate like a gigantic flying Pez dispenser on some missions, if all goes according to plan.

A woman allegedly entered a SpaceX facility in Texas, claiming she was an employee and wanted to speak with Elon Musk.

Outer space is getting crowded, with both commercial endeavors and secretive military projects. And it's going to be up to the newest United States military branch, the Space Force, to protect American interests there.

A 21-year-old Pennsylvania woman remains jailed in a Cameron County facility after she was accused of trespassing at the SpaceX facility at Boca Chica Beach. Nivea Rose Parker told authorities she was a SpaceX employee and was on the fifth floor of High Bay No.1 because she wanted to meet with Elon Musk, Cameron County Sheriff Eric Garza stated in a media release. Garza said his deputies went to the SpaceX facility after receiving a call that a trespasser had been found at the location. Parker was found roaming the fifth floor of High Bay No. According to the media release from the sheriff’s office, surveillance video showed that on Wednesday Parker entered SpaceX at about 5:30 p.m.

Tesla shares dip on hiring freeze, Elon Musk's 'super bad feeling' about the economy

Boeing's astronaut taxi has returned to Earth from the International Space Station, completing a repeat test flight with a mannequin on board.

Boeing's astronaut capsule has arrived at the International Space Station in a critical repeat test flight.

Boeing's crew capsule has blasted off on a repeat test flight to the International Space Station.

A SpaceX rocket has carried 53 satellites for the Starlink internet constellation into orbit.

SpaceX has returned four astronauts from the International Space Station with a midnight splashdown off the Florida coast.

SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, less than two days after completing a flight chartered by millionaires.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is moving into the business of providing internet service to airline passengers.

Three rich businessmen are back on Earth with their astronaut escort after a pricey trip to the International Space Station.

Elon Musk’s huge Twitter investment took a new twist Tuesday with the filing of a lawsuit alleging that the colorful billionaire illegally delayed disclosing his big stake in the social media company so he could buy more shares at lower prices.

As Twitter’s newest board member and largest shareholder, Elon Musk is already floating suggestions for changes he’d like to see on the social media platform.

A U.S. astronaut has made it through nearly a year in space but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth.

The moon is about to get walloped by a big piece of space junk.

The youngest American to journey into space, Hayley Arceneaux, has a simple title for her memoir.

The billionaire who flew on his own SpaceX flight last year is headed back up, aiming for an even higher orbit and the chance to take part in a spacewalk.

SpaceX's Elon Musk says the first orbital flight of his towering Starship could come in another month or two.

SpaceX and NASA are investigating a parachute issue that occurred on the last two capsule flights.

The real winner of a sweepstakes for a ride in space has finally come forward: a Florida-based airline pilot.

Reports of a rocket booster from the SpaceX Falcon 9 hitting the moon have surfaced in recent weeks but it’s not anything to be worried about, according to multiple reports.

A SpaceX rocket has carried 52 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from California.

NASA’s newest X-ray observatory is circling the world after launching from Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX is aiming to launch its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship to orbit in January.

SpaceX launched 53 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida on Saturday.

A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts has pulled up at the International Space Station, their new home until spring.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a 200-day space station mission.

High wind off the Florida coast has prompted SpaceX to delay the return of four space station astronauts.

The astronauts who will depart the International Space Station on Sunday will be stuck using diapers on the way home.

SpaceX has bumped its next astronaut flight for NASA until Wednesday because of rough wind and waves hundreds of miles away.

SpaceX is resolving toilet spills in its capsules before it launches another crew for NASA.

Captain Kirk is rocketing into space: “Star Trek” actor William Shatner plans to blast off from West Texas next week.

Elon Musk and singer Grimes have ended their romantic relationship after three years.

A trailblazing tourist trip to orbit has ended safely with a splashdown in the Atlantic.

Tom Cruise is getting a sneak preview of what it's like to circle Earth in a SpaceX capsule.

A SpaceX shipment of ants, avocados and a human-sized robotic arm is on its way to the International Space Station.

Jeff Bezos has lost his appeal of NASA's contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to build its new moon lander.

NASA astronauts Raja Chair and Doug Wheelock explain how commercial missions are paving the way for the return to the moon.

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has gotten federal approval to launch people into space, himself included.

Thrill-seeking billionaire Richard Branson has reached space aboard his own winged rocket ship, bringing astro-tourism a step closer to reality.

Jeff Bezos will blast into space next month on Blue Origin's first flight with a crew, becoming the first person in the world to ride his own rocket.

A Japanese fashion tycoon who's booked a SpaceX ride to the moon is going to try out the International Space Station first.

Electric car maker Tesla will stop accepting Bitcoin as a payment.

Dogecoin is literally going to the moon.

A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the United States over three nights earlier this week had callers frantically calling TV stations from Texas to Wisconsin and speculating that a fleet of UFOs was coming.

SpaceX has finally launched and successfully landed its futuristic Starship.

SpaceX has delivered four astronauts back to Earth, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.

A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts has departed the International Space Station and is aiming for a rare nighttime splashdown.

SpaceX will attempt the first U.S. splashdown of returning astronauts in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot in 1968.

NASA and SpaceX are promising more Coast Guard patrols and fewer pleasure boaters for this weekend's splashdown by four astronauts.