Today’s launch is SpaceX’s first-ever U.S. national security mission.
View More SpaceX completes its last mission of 2018 with the launch of a military GPS satelliteCategory: spaceflight
Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket landing fail in style
On Wednesday, we witnessed a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch a Dragon capsule destined for the International Space Station to orbit, but it just missed its land landing after a bad case of the spins.
Now, SpaceX head honcho Elon Musk has shared some cle…
Malfunction mars the landing for SpaceX’s latest Falcon 9 resupply mission to the ISS
The latest Falcon 9 mission launched successfully, but its reusable booster just missed sticking the landing thanks to a stalled hydraulic pump on the grid fin, according to a tweet by Elon Musk. Grid fin hydraulic pump stalled, so Falcon landed just out to sea. Appears to be undamaged & is transmitting data. Recovery ship […]
View More Malfunction mars the landing for SpaceX’s latest Falcon 9 resupply mission to the ISSSpaceflight’s 64-satellite rideshare launch takes off tomorrow on a Falcon 9
Seattle-based launch coordinator Spaceflight is gearing up for its biggest operation yet: Smallsat Express, deploying a staggering 64 separate satellites from 34 different clients — all from a single Falcon 9 rocket. It’s quite an endeavor, but the company believes that this kind of jam-packed “space bus” is the best way to make satellite deployment […]
View More Spaceflight’s 64-satellite rideshare launch takes off tomorrow on a Falcon 9Elon Musk just renamed SpaceX’s Big F** Rocket
BFR, the monster rocket that will cost SpaceX roughly $5 billion to develop, has a new name. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted late Monday night that he has renamed the company’s largest (and yet to be built) BFR rocket to Starship. Or more precisely, the spaceship portion will be called Starship. The rocket booster used […]
View More Elon Musk just renamed SpaceX’s Big F** RocketNASA chooses the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover mission
Five years and sixty potential locations later, NASA has chosen the Jezero Crater as the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover mission. Slated to launch in July the Mars 2020 rover mission will touch down at the Jezero Crater as NASA’s exploration of the Red Planet enters its next phase. The rover will be looking for […]
View More NASA chooses the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover missionVirgin Orbit successfully takes its 747 flying launchpad out for a spin
In the next step on its path to getting its low earth orbit payload launch system up and running, Virgin Orbit successfully took its LauncherOne system out for a spin with an actual rocket attached under its wing. The company’s specially modified 747-400 carried a 70-foot-long rocket as part of a test flight proving that […]
View More Virgin Orbit successfully takes its 747 flying launchpad out for a spinSpaceX lands its first rocket on West Coast ground
SpaceX has just successfully landed its first rocket on the U.S. West Coast.
After launching a satellite from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Sunday evening with the Falcon 9 rocket, the spaceflight company brought its first stage boost…
Everything we know about SpaceX’s first moon passenger, Yusaku Maezawa
SpaceX revealed the first passenger its signed up to fly to the moon on Monday for one very expensive art project.
The Elon Musk-founded company will send 42-year-old Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa into deep space, but he doesn’t want to take th…
Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ rocket take its first re-flight
SpaceX is sending of one of newest Falcon 9 rockets back into space for the second time this early morning U.S. time. The Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ rocket is designed to be able to go into space and return 100 times, but these are early days. The rocket leaving today is taking Indonesian satellite Merah Putih […]
View More Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ rocket take its first re-flightMeet the NASA astronauts that will fly to space with SpaceX and Boeing
Since the end of NASA’s space shuttle program in 2011, the American space agency has relied on Russian rockets and capsules to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station.
This plan, of course, was never ideal, and it was never me…
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