NASA’s SpaceX 35th commercial resupply mission lifted off at 6:33 a.m. EDT Tuesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies and hardware, bound for the International Space Station. Following its successful launch, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will
To continue regular crew transportation to the International Space Station, NASA has awarded SpaceX three additional missions through a contract modification. As part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract, this change brings the total missions for SpaceX to 17 and helps NASA to maintain access to the space station with two unique
OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to become its vice president of worldwide sales. McCarthy joined SpaceX in August through its acquisition of Cursor. At both companies he served as the president of global revenue and worldwide field operations. He previously led enterprise sales teams at Rubrik, ThoughtSpot, AppDyanamics, and Qlik. He is the
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has some new digs—an Airstream trailer in Memphis, parked just steps from xAI’s most ambitious project yet. Musk, who has a net worth of $917 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index and became the world’s first trillionaire for 12 days in June, said Monday he was in his
Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 2:45 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Sept. 16, from the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will discuss their upcoming return to Earth. Learn where
SpaceX is cashing in on the surging demand for AI compute. CFO Bret Johnsen told a Goldman Sachs conference on Thursday that SpaceX had clinched another major data center deal worth over $1 billion a month. “Just earlier this month, we closed another hosting deal, and that translates into about $1.11 billion a month starting
