Rocket Lab, the Kiwi operation working on breaking into the launch industry with small but frequent launches, has its first launch of the year today, due to take off in just a few minutes. Tune in here!
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Elon Musk shows off SpaceX’s Starship Raptor engine firing
Who knew seeing a rocket fire up close could be so pretty?
On Sunday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared photos and video of the company’s Starship Raptor engine firing in its first ground test.
A still shows a kaleidoscope of colours streaming from the engine, although that could be just the camera not quite keeping up with the fire’s intensity.
“Green tinge is either camera saturation or a tiny bit of copper from the chamber,” Musk added in a tweet.
First firing of Starship Raptor flight engine! So proud of great work by @SpaceX team!! pic.twitter.com/S6aT7Jih4S
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 4, 2019 Read more…
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View More Elon Musk shows off SpaceX’s Starship Raptor engine firingSpaceX 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…
3 new crewmembers launch to space station after Russian rocket failure in October
The International Space Station is about to get three new residents.
On Monday, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenkoof launched to the orbiting outpost aboard a Russian Soyuz …
Soyuz bounces back after failure: Crewed mission to Space Station launches early next month
The high profile but fortunately non-lethal failure of a crewed mission atop a Soyuz rocket in October has been investigated thoroughly enough that American, European, and Russian space agencies are willing to ride aboard the venerable launch system. Roscosmos announced that a crewed mission will fly to the International Space Station on December 3, less than two months after the anomaly.
View More Soyuz bounces back after failure: Crewed mission to Space Station launches early next monthThis is what it’s like to survive a rocket failure
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Nick Hague is back on Earth, but he doesn’t want to be.
Last week, the NASA astronaut was expected to fly to the International Space Station for a months-long stay in orbit that would be his first mission to space.
But things didn’t go according to plan.
On Thursday, not long after the launch of Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin’s Soyuz rocket to the station, something went wrong.
While it’s still unclear exactly what happened, the Soyuz automatically aborted the mission, sending the capsule carrying the two crew members on an extreme ride back to Earth without ever making it to the station. Read more…
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Photos taken after Russian rocket failure prove that human spaceflight is never routine
I never want to understand the kind of fear that the families of NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin experienced in the wee hours of Thursday morning.
Both crewmembers were aboard a Russian-made Soyuz rocket bound fo…
Elon Musk reveals the first passenger SpaceX will send around the moon
SpaceX has announced the identity of its first passenger to fly on its forthcoming BFR spacecraft, headed around the moon in 2023.
Yusaku Maezawa, the 42-year-old billionaire founder of Japan’s colossal online fashion mall, Zozotown, will fly around …
Elon Musk tweets new images of SpaceX’s forthcoming BFR spacecraft
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That’s one big effing rocket.
With the imminent reveal of the mystery passenger who will be flying around the moon in SpaceX’s forthcoming BFR, Elon Musk tweeted two new renders of the spacecraft.
The 106 metre (347 feet) long ship was first announced last year, and Musk said the ship will contain up to 40 cabins which will have enough space for 100 people.
BFR’s booster will be powered by 31 Raptor engines, while the ship itself will have 7 Raptor engines, which appear to be arranged like a honeycomb.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 17, 2018 Read more…
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View More Elon Musk tweets new images of SpaceX’s forthcoming BFR spacecraftHere’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…
SpaceX lands another rocket on a drone ship in the Pacific, despite rough seas
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SpaceX is getting it done.
The Elon Musk-founded company just launched and then landed another of its newly upgraded Falcon 9 rocket boosters.
The rocket carrying a clutch of communications satellites launched them on their way to orbit from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base at 7:39 a.m. ET before the first stage of the booster came back in for a landing on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean about 10 minutes later.
Despite challenging weather conditions, Falcon 9 first stage booster landed on Just Read the Instructions.
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View More SpaceX lands another rocket on a drone ship in the Pacific, despite rough seasSpaceX makes beautiful pre-dawn rocket landing at sea. See it here.
SpaceX’s rocket landings are back and better than ever.
After a months long dry spell, SpaceX just completed its latest and greatest rocket landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean after launching a satellite to orbit from Cape Canaveral, …