"SpaceX Soars with Multiple Launches and Lunar Missions Amid Musk-Trump Feud"

SpaceX continues its ambitious launch schedule with multiple missions this week. Early this morning, SpaceX successfully launched the SXM-10 satellite for SiriusXM from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 12:54 a.m. EDT, delivering the 14,100-pound satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit. The first stage booster, on its eighth flight, landed on the drone ship "A Shortfall of Gravitas" in the Atlantic Ocean. This marks SpaceX's second launch for SiriusXM in just six months, following the SXM-9 deployment in December 2024.

Later today, SpaceX is set to launch another Falcon 9 carrying 26 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, further expanding their internet constellation.

SpaceX has now completed 69 Falcon 9 launches in 2025, with 51 dedicated to building out the Starlink megaconstellation.

In dramatic news, a public feud erupted between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump on Thursday. After Trump threatened to cancel government contracts awarded to Musk's companies, Musk responded on social media that SpaceX would "begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately." Hours later, Musk walked back the threat, posting "Good advice. Ok, we won't decommission Dragon."

The disagreement began Tuesday when Musk criticized the administration's proposed tax and spending bill, calling it a "disgusting abomination." NASA declined to comment specifically on SpaceX but stated they would continue working with industry partners to meet presidential objectives in space.

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver noted that canceling SpaceX contracts would likely be illegal, but also called "a rogue CEO threatening to decommission spacecraft, putting astronauts' lives at risk" untenable.

In other SpaceX news, NASA awarded the company a contract to build the US Deorbit Vehicle for the International Space Station. This spacecraft will perform a controlled de-orbit of the station after its operational life ends in 2030.

SpaceX also experienced mixed results with its support of lunar missions. A Falcon 9 previously launched two private moon landers - Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience. While Blue Ghost successfully touched down on the moon on March 2, Resilience unfortunately crashed during its landing attempt on Thursday.

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