Q&A with Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO

The Canadian telecom satellite operator Telesat plans to launch two multipurpose communications spacecraft aboard SpaceX Falcon rockets in 2018, the company disclosed this week in a quarterly earnings announcement.

Three crewmen from Russia, the United States and Great Britain blasted off toward the International Space Station on Tuesday, rocketing into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in pursuit of the orbiting research lab.

The mission featured the 400th successful booster landing on a droneship. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 7:10 a.m. EDT (1110 UTC).