SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Getty Images On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration levied proposed fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars against SpaceX for violations related to rocket launches last year. Soon after, Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of the commercial rocket and satellite company, threatened legal action to fight the citations. “SpaceX will be…
A billionaire spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers. SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air…
China is aiming to loosen Elon Musk’s lock on reusable launch vehicles — and close a yawning technology gap with the US. Beijing is turning to aerospace startups and state-owned enterprises alike to develop an edge in rockets that can be used dozens of times to lift satellites into low-Earth orbit. One company trying to…