The Air Force on Wednesday awarded two major launch contracts to SpaceX and United Launch Alliance.
Under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, SpaceX received a $290 million firm-fixed-price contract for three GPS 3 missions. Continue reading
Elon Musk, a man prone to ludicrous deadlines, has birthed another: test flights of his Mars spaceship next year.
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SpaceX is marking the 50th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, its satellite-delivery workhorse. The latest Falcon took flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, early Tuesday, Continue reading
SpaceX is marking the 50th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, its satellite-delivery workhorse. The latest Falcon took flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, early Tuesday, successfully hosting a massive Continue reading
He added that NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection sterilizes spacecraft that will land on other planets to ensure our native bacteria doesn’t interact with the organisms elsewhere.
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the world’s most powerful rocket, is gearing up for the launch of its first commercial payload. It will be an experimental satellite for the US Air Force (USAF). Continue reading
A new SpaceX drone ship under construction will help the company handle increased launch operations and likely call the Space Coast home, CEO Elon Musk said Monday.
The company’s third ship, named A Shortfall of Gravitas, will join Of Course I Still Love You for Eas Continue reading
Astronomers aim to keep tabs on everything up in the night sky. A NASA database includes our solar system’s eight planets and their moons, more than 755,000 asteroids, 3,500 comets — and, as of this week, one cherry red sports car that belonged to a Silicon Valley billionaire.
Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, put on a stunning show Tuesday with the inaugural launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, which became the most powerful operational rocket in the world.
It was a demo mission, so the goal was just to show that the rocket could fire up its engines and fly into space.
Test flights typically have a dummy payload, s Continue reading
SpaceX is targeting February 17 for the test launch of its first satellite for global internet constellation, a project, informally known as Starlink, which aims to provide Continue reading
On the historic launch of the world’s most powerful rocket of Space X’s Falcon Heavy rocket, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman Dr K Sivan on Wednesday called it “a quantum leap in space technology. Continue reading