It’s no coincidence that Elon Musk wants to both tunnel down into and soar above the Earth. If you ask the team at HyperSciences, the best way to get to space is to flip drilling technology upside down and point it at the sky. In the process, that would mean ditching the large, expensive fuel […]
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Watch 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 NASABlue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch
Today, at its Texas launch facility, Blue Origin preformed its most critical test to date. It preformed a live separation test of its crew capsule from the rocket booster and everything preformed as expected. The crew capsule fired its escape motor at the right time, sending the capsule higher than it ever has gone before. […]
View More Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launchWatch Blue Origin’s most critical rocket launch right here
The launch is scheduled for 11:00 am EDT on July 18, 2018. Blue Origin is about to preform a critical rocket test. For the first time Jeff Bezos’ rocket company will send send its New Shepard rocket to its red line at the edge of space and then fire the escape motor on the capsule […]
View More Watch Blue Origin’s most critical rocket launch right hereWatch Rocket Lab’s first commercial launch, ‘It’s Business Time’
Rocket Lab, the New Zealand-based rocket company that is looking to further amplify the commercial space frenzy, is launching its first fully paid payload atop an Electron rocket tonight — technically tomorrow morning at the launch site. If successful, it may mark a significant new development in the highly competitive world of commercial launches.
View More Watch Rocket Lab’s first commercial launch, ‘It’s Business Time’Starman has gone dark
Starman and his space Tesla have sent their last selfie from Earth orbit, Elon Musk announced. The car and its mannequin driver (in working SpaceX spacesuit) launched yesterday atop the Falcon Heavy rocket will eventually escape Earth orbit and travel outwards through the solar system — but not in a hurry. Read More
View More Starman has gone darkThis supersonic car looks like a rocket on wheels
The Bloodhound SCC Project is a global engineering adventure, aiming to build a car that can reach 1,000 mph and break the World Land-Speed Record set in 1997 and still stands at 763 mph.
The team behind this project hopes to inspire the next g…