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Micah Maidenberg

ARTICLES BY MICAH MAIDENBERG

A Starship launch in Texas earlier this year. Photo: Reuters

SpaceX pushes to get Starship rocket ready for Mars by next year

3 min read . 26 May 2025

A Starship booster at the Starbase site in March. (Reuters)

Welcome to Starbase, Texas. What’s next for Musk’s rocket-building company town

4 min read . 04 May 2025

Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites, facing manufacturing ramp-up challenges. (Image: Reuters)

Amazon wants to be a satellite-internet powerhouse. It has a long way to go.

3 min read . 30 Apr 2025

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore. (Photo by Brandon Bell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (Getty Images via AFP)

NASA astronauts get used to life on earth after orbital saga

2 min read . 01 Apr 2025

Apple’s service lets users send text messages, call emergency assistance and seek roadside help in areas where cellphone service isn’t available.

Apple and Musk clash over satellite expansion plans

3 min read . 31 Mar 2025

(Illustration: Alexandra Citrin-Safadi/WSJ)

Elon Musk’s mission to take over Nasa—and Mars

13 min read . 30 Mar 2025

Jared Isaacman is President Trump’s pick to run NASA. (inspiration 4/Reuters)

The thrill-seeking billionaire and SpaceX astronaut poised to run Nasa

6 min read . 22 Feb 2025

The Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska aims to attract smaller rocket operators that might be looking for room to launch. Photo: Leah Garton/Missile Defense Agency/Reuters

There’s a traffic jam forming at US rocket launchpads

4 min read . 05 Jan 2025

President-elect Donald Trump, from left, Trump's pick for the planned Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk and Vice President-elect JD Vance. (File Photo: AP)

Why Musk doesn’t have access to SpaceX’s biggest government secrets

7 min read . 16 Dec 2024

SpaceX's mega rocket booster returns to the launch pad to be captured during a test flight. (AP)

The SpaceX advantage that rivals are trying to emulate

4 min read . 27 Oct 2024

The launch of a flight test of SpaceX’s Starship rocket from Boca Chica, Texas, in June. (SpaceX/Reuters)

The tug of war over SpaceX launching the biggest rocket ever

3 min read . 13 Oct 2024

Crew members of Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission Commander, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis, who are both expected to attempt the first commercial spacewalk. Launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled for August 26. (File Photo: Reuters)

SpaceX’s risky next mission: The first private spacewalk

4 min read . 25 Aug 2024

The Long March 6A rocket, launched Aug. 6, was carrying the first batch of satellites that aim to form a rival system to Starlink,. (Zheng Bin/Xinhua via AP) (AP)

Breakup of Chinese rocket prompts warnings about space junk

4 min read . 23 Aug 2024

Nasa astronauts Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams blasted off for the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner on 5 June 5 for what was meant to be an eight-day stay. (AFP)

How on Earth did Nasa leave two astronauts in space?

11 min read . 17 Aug 2024

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for their liftoff on the Boeing Starliner capsule to the international space station. (File Photo: AP)

Two astronauts are stuck in space. Here’s how they’re passing the time.

5 min read . 10 Aug 2024

For now, SpaceX is still testing Starship, which hasn’t flown any satellites yet and faces technical hurdles. (via REUTERS)

SpaceX presses to launch massive rockets from Texas more often

2 min read . 12 Jul 2024

The Ariane 6 rocket is designed to fly a range of missions. (AFP)

European rocket launch takes aim at SpaceX

6 min read . 08 Jul 2024

People take photographs during the launch of Boeing-Lockheed joint venture United Launch Alliance's next-generation Vulcan rocket on its debut flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, 8 January 2024. (File Photo: Reuters)

The once-dominant rocket maker trying to catch up to Musk’s SpaceX

5 min read . 01 Jul 2024

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT), is launched on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. June 5, 2024. (File Photo: Reuters)

Boeing sent two astronauts into space. Now It needs to get them home.

2 min read . 19 Jun 2024

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, June 6, 2024. (SpaceX via AP) (AP)

SpaceX aims for better landings in latest starship test

1 min read . 06 Jun 2024