Q&A with Keith Gendreau, principal investigator of the first X-ray space communications experiment (members only)

The Starlink 6-110 mission was the 18th flight this years supporting SpaceX’s broadband internet constellation. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 6:04:10 p.m. EST (2304:10 UTC).

NASA has selected Axiom Space, a Houston-based startup partnering with Boeing and other aerospace contractors, to attach a commercial habitat to the International Space Station and begin constructing an orbiting complex that the company says could ultimately replace the international research outpost.

SpaceX released a video Thursday showing a propulsive hover test of a prototype of the company’s Dragon crew capsule conducted two months ago, a milestone in the development of the spaceship’s rocket packs that will eventually guide the craft to helicopter-like landings.