Calling all lunatics — the first fully private moon landing mission is about to take off from Cape Canaveral. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpaceIL’s Beresheet lander is set to take off an hour from now, at 5:45 Pacific time. Watch it right here!
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Watch Blue Origin’s 10th New Shepard mission launch a science-loaded capsule to space
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, is about to undertake the 10th launch of its New Shepard launch vehicle, with its capsule chock full of experiments. The launch, which was originally scheduled for a month ago but delayed for various reasons, will be take place at 6:50 AM Pacific time.
View More Watch Blue Origin’s 10th New Shepard mission launch a science-loaded capsule to spaceRocket Lab snags DARPA launch contract for first 2019 mission
Launch startup Rocket Lab is following the success of its first couple commercial launches by adding a prestigious (and deep-pocketed) new client: DARPA. The New Zealand-based company will send an experimental satellite called R3D2 into low Earth orbit sometime in late February if all goes well. DARPA is of course the Defense Department’s research wing, […]
View More Rocket Lab snags DARPA launch contract for first 2019 missionWatch Rocket Lab launch 10 cubesats into orbit tonight for NASA
It’s been just over a month since Rocket Lab’s inaugural (and long-delayed) commercial launch, “It’s Business Time,” and it’s about to take another customer to space: NASA. Tonight’s 8PM scheduled launch will take 10 small satellites to orbit as part of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) XIX mission.
View More Watch Rocket Lab launch 10 cubesats into orbit tonight for NASASpaceX successfully launches to the space station but misses the landing
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched to space on Wednesday, but it didn’t quite stick the landing.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully lifted off from a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, carryi…
SpaceX launches and lands the same Falcon 9 rocket for the third time
The third time is most certainly the charm for SpaceX.
On Monday, SpaceX, the private spaceflight company founded by Elon Musk, launched and landed one of its Falcon 9 rockets for the third time, marking the first time in SpaceX’s history that they’v…
See SpaceX blast a satellite into orbit, nail rocket landing on a drone ship
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For the 18th time this year, SpaceX has successfully launched to space.
After lifting off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center along the Florida coast at 3:46 p.m. on Thursday, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket delivered a communications satellite, Es’hail-2, into orbit for its latest customer, the nation of Qatar.
About 10 minutes later, the rocket booster — which contains nine expensive, SpaceX-made Merlin engines — descended through the atmosphere and landed in the Atlantic Ocean on the Elon Musk-named droneship “Of Course I Still Love You.”
This marks the booster’s second trip to space and back again. It’s also the 31st time the company has managed to land a rocket back on Earth after flying to space. Read more…
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View More See SpaceX blast a satellite into orbit, nail rocket landing on a drone shipTurbulent video shows the moment a Russian rocket failed, sending two astronauts back to Earth
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The Russian space agency Roscosmos released footage of the nearly-disastrous rocket launch that imperiled the lives of NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin on October 11.
While the video is dramatic, it also proved the effectiveness of the Soyuz rocket’s emergency abort system — which blasted the crew capsule away from the damaged launcher — ultimately allowing the two-person crew to parachute back down to Earth.
The footage, captured by a camera attached to the side of the Soyuz, shows the rocket blasting off the brown Kazakhstan ground and passing through the clouds. But just after the 1:22 mark, things go awry. Read more…
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Here’s what a rocket launch looks like from the view of a satellite
Rocket launches are usually thrilling to watch anyway, but it’s particularly cool watching them from a satellite.
Over the weekend, Chinese private spaceflight company OneSpace launched its OS-X1 rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the…
What you need to know about NASA’s mission to touch the sun
A NASA probe is about to launch on a mission to the sun in the name of protecting the Earth.
On Saturday, the space agency’s Parker Solar Probe is expected to launch to orbit, beginning its long and winding journey that will eventually allow humanity…
Blue Origin launches rocket to space in ‘extreme’ test of the crew capsule
From its desolate West Texas launchpad, Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin launched another reusable rocket into space, and then successfully landed both the rocket booster and the large-windowed crew capsule.
Blue Origin used this launch to test…
Astronauts rocketing into space at 18,000 mph look incredibly chill about it
Blasting into space at nearly 18,000 mph seems unnerving. But three space station-bound astronauts appeared profoundly tranquil as they sped through Earth’s atmosphere on June 6.
On Monday morning, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gers…