Rocket launches are exciting to watch, but the past two SpaceX Starship launches gave viewers more than they expected. Both starships exploded after launch. Nevertheless, the company considered the mission a success thanks to the data and information collected. And it doesn’t stop. SpaceX on Tuesday announced plans to launch its third Starship mission on…
Tuesday saw the launch of SpaceX’s 16th Falcon 9 rocket of the year, carrying a potent Indonesian communications satellite into orbit. At 3:11 p.m. EST, the Falcon 9 rocket launched from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, using a first stage on its 17th flight. The first stage boosted the rocket…
A step closer to its historic moonshot, a private lunar lander has made progress. Today, January 31, the robotic Nova-C spacecraft got prepared for liftoff by being enclosed inside the payload fairing of its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. In a call with reporters this afternoon, Trent Martin, vice president for space systems at the Houston-based…
The Internet giant said on Friday that it had purchased three rocket launches from SpaceX for its Project Kuiper internet satellites. Amazon’s decision is unexpected considering that their Kuiper system is meant to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink in the satellite broadband space. Both Starlink and Kuiper are multibillion-dollar efforts aimed at building networks with thousands…
According to records describing the privately held company’s quarterly and annual statistics, the Report claimed Thursday that SpaceX made money during the first quarter as a consequence of rising revenue. According to report, SpaceX reported a first-quarter profit of $55 million on $1.5 billion in revenue. According to the research, Elon Musk’s rocket company lost $559…
NASA has issued Jeff Bezos a moon ticket. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded Blue Origin, the billionaire’s space company, a significant contract on Friday to develop a crewed lunar lander for sending astronauts to the moon’s surface later this decade as part of the agency’s Artemis program. In essence, the project will cost…
SpaceX sent 22 of its Starlink broadband “V2 mini” satellites into orbit early on Friday, May 19, landing the returning rocket at sea. At 2:19 a.m. EDT (06:19 GMT) on Friday, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft of the next generation launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Bird of…
From Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday evening, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried two O3b internet satellites for SES. However, the company was unable to complete a double-header launch because a Falcon Heavy mission was aborted at the last minute. The second pair of Boeing-built satellites for SES’s O3b mPOWER network, a constellation…
Before the first launch of its Starship rocket, the most powerful rocket ever built, SpaceX has cleared the final regulatory hurdle. Friday’s announcement came from the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates commercial rocket launches and granted SpaceX’s request for an uncrewed flight test of the rocket from its South Texas facilities. The vehicle, which has…
After OneWeb’s own launch plans were derailed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, SpaceX launched a large number of internet satellites for a megaconstellation competitor Thursday evening (Dec. 8). At 5:27 p.m. EST (2227 GMT), a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 40 OneWeb satellites launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, soaring into orbit in…