With Starbase’s newly acquired power, the company may decide to close down the beach to support the development of its Starship rocket. Starship is scheduled to liftoff for its 11th test flight on Monday, October 13. Once Starship is fully operational, SpaceX aims to launch its giant rocket from Starbase as many as 25 times a year.

The awards highlight the company’s continued dominance over Pentagon space contracts, despite Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump’s public falling out earlier this year.

SpaceX has launched the 10,000th Starlink into orbit after successfully delivering another batch of 56 satellites on Sunday. The milestone means that SpaceX boss Elon Musk now controls two thirds of all active satellites, according to data from non-profit satellite tracker Celestrak.

The California Coastal Commission denied a request to allow SpaceX to increase its number of launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base to 50 a year.

SpaceX is poised to dominate global space launches, with Elon Musk projecting the company will carry nearly 90% of the world's payload mass to orbit i

SpaceX is moving forward with plans for another Starship launch on the heels of the last test Aug. 26 from its Starbase headquarters in Texas.

SpaceX still has a number of Falcon 9 rocket launches planned in October from the Vandenberg Space Force Base. Here's a look.

The kerfuffle escalated when CAH filed a $15 million lawsuit seeking restitution for the encroachment and subsequent damage to that slice of land, which is situated near the U.S.-Mexico border. The property was purchased in 2017 by a coalition of supporters who aimed to disrupt then-President Donald Trump's plan to build a border wall.