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What the IT market can learn from SpaceX's NASA win NASA has moved another step closer to human flights to the moon and alongside that there is the big news of which company will help get them there and what that possibly means. SpaceX's win of the $2.9 billion lunar lander contract was a surprise on multiple fronts. First, NASA had said that it planned to pick two companies to maintain competition. But the source selection document is clear that NASA’s budget wouldn’t support two awards. All three bids came in too high to make even one award from those, much less two.

Starship SN15 prepares to rollout as Raptor testing ups a gear April 4, 2021 Just days after Starship SN11 conducted a fog-cloaked test flight that ended in an explosive finale, SN15 is already in final preparations for a rollout down Highway 4 at SpaceX Starbase (Boca Chica). SN15 will sport numerous modifications that SpaceX hopes will result in improved performance ahead of shooting for orbit along with smoother touchdowns for its prototype rocket. One of the mostly unspecified modifications involves the engines, which are being aided by an increased test cadence at SpaceX’s McGregor tes...

SpaceX successfully launched another 60 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center early Thursday. This is the 20th batch of satellites that SpaceX has put into orbit since the project began and the 5th successful launch since the beginning of the year. This particular mission,

Elon Musk's company was aiming for two launches in a single week, but has to postpone the second mission.

By Zach Halverson Feb 3, 2021 While SpaceX continues to launch and land their Falcon 9 rockets almost routinely, Elon Musk's company continues to look to the future. The replacement for the Falcon 9 will be the Starship and yesterday in Texas SpaceX did the second test flight of the new rocket system. In similar fashion to the first launch demo, the end of the flight ended in a massive explosion! While this may seem like a failure to most, Musk and company gained a ton of data that will hopefully allow them to stick the landing next time!