Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., will replace its Falcon 1 rocket by the end of 2010 with the more capable and more expensive Falcon 1e rocket, the company said Aug.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched in June its third Falcon Heavy carrying ashes of 152 people and 24 satellites that were deployed into three separate orbits. “The most difficult launch ever”, ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday reminisced about the first failed launch attempt of the company’s Falcon 1 launch vehicle after the Polaris Dawn crew landed safely back to Earth in a SpaceX Dragon ...

WASHINGTON — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has scrubbed its third attempt to make the inaugural launch of its Falcon 1 rocket after problems cropped up during a planned engine test. The El ...

The Falcon 1 made history on September 28, 2008 by becoming the "first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth ...

With last Friday’s successful launch of CRS-13, SpaceX marked its fiftieth orbital launch. The milestone comes less than twelve years after the company’s first, unsuccessful, mission lifted off in ...

The Falcon 9, SpaceX's primary launch rocket, has set a new record in space flight. It marks a key milestone for the Falcon 9, which on Thursday also marked the 10th anniversary of its first flight.

In Elon Musk’s video announcement of the Spacex BFR he indicated that it would be lower cost to launch than the Spacex Falcon 1. Above was the graphic which showed the Spacex BFR at lower cost than ...

Time is drawing closer for the maiden liftoff of the privately financed Falcon 1 launch vehicle, built by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of El Segundo, Calif. But the march to the launch pad has ...

This story was updated at 9:38 p.m. EST. SpaceX officials called off the inaugural flight of their Falcon 1 rocket Saturday after a launch countdown beleaguered by poor weather, an engine computer ...

The private launch firmSpaceX is once again ready for its spaceflight debut as its first Falcon 1rocket sits poised to launch later today. "Allsystems have passed their prelaunch checkout and we are ...