Private rocket company SpaceX has been awarded a $69 million NASA contract to redirect an asteroid off its intended path. It’s basically crashing a rocket into an asteroid hurtling towards the Earth in the hope that it would be enough to deflect it from its path and save the planet. Advertising NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection […]
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on april 11, 2019 spacex launched the falcon heavy rocket with three rockets boosters. within a few fiery minutes and seconds, the rocket took off, released the boosters and like darts they fell to land on three bullseyes — two in cape canaveral, and one on a landing pad in the atlantic ocean. this hat trick […]
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OneWeb, a space startup that recently launched its first “constellation” of micro-satellites to deliver broadband access across the globe, has raised $1.25 billion to begin mass production of its satellites and capitalize on what it calls “first mover advantage.” The gargantuan cash injection was led by SoftBank, Qualcomm, Grupo Salinas, and the Rwandan government, and […]
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SpaceX launched its new Crew Dragon capsule just a day ago and it has been able to automatically dock to a port on the International Space Station this morning for the very first time. This means that a crucial mission objective of this test flight has been achieved as this docking maneuver is something that […]
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(Reuters) — A SpaceX rocket with an unmanned crew capsule blasted off on Saturday for the International Space Station, in a key milestone for Elon Musk’s space company and NASA’s long-delayed goal to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil later this year. SpaceX’s 16-foot-tall (4.9 meter) Crew Dragon capsule, atop a Falcon 9 rocket, lifted […]
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at 3am eastern time on february 7, 2019 elon musk put his spaceX hat on and shared the following tweet: Raptor just achieved power level needed for Starship & Super Heavy pic.twitter.com/NcqnAVWc35 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2019 this is one raptor engine, firing less than its full potential, according to musk and spaceX. in […]
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has posted an actual picture of the company’s Starship test rocket on Twitter. It follows weeks of production photos and renderings that were meant to tease those looking forward to seeing this rocket in the flesh. Musk also mentioned on Twitter that the company’s Starship rocket has finished assembly at its […]
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SpaceX, the private rocket company founded by the billionaire Elon Musk, is laying off about 10 percent of its work force in what it framed as a necessary cutback to position the company for an unchartered future. The company will have about 6,000 employees remaining after the layoffs, which will take place companywide. “To continue […]
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Space company Vector today announced it has raised a $70 million funding round to build the Vector R and Vector H rockets. Vector focuses on the use of smaller rockets to put microsatellites in orbit and make deliveries. Vector plans to launch its first rocket later this year in Kodiak, Alaska and complete 12 Vector […]
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spaceX CEO elon musk has announced an ambitious deadline for its mars mission, along with tweets of the company’s mars base alpha and the BFR or big falcon rocket. musk has stated a full ‘mars base alpha’ – a preliminary city on the red planet – could be completed as soon as 2028. images courtesy of @elonmusk […]
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SpaceX recently confirmed more details about its Moon mission that’s planned for 2023. It also revealed the identity of the company’s first paying passenger for the trip around the moon who will be accompanied by eight artists on the trip as well. If you’re not one of those people, don’t worry, you will be able […]
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SpaceX is a private space company and it plans on flying tourists, the ones with very deep pockets, to space. The company had been teasing the announcement of its first space tourist and CEO Elon Musk has finally revealed who will be hitching the first paid ride on SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket. It’s Yusaku Maezawa, […]
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a japanese billionaire and a group of artists will visit the moon, becoming the first private citizens ever to fly beyond low-earth orbit, spaceX CEO elon musk has announced. yusaku maezawa, 42-year-old billionaire and founder of japanese e-commerce giant zozo, signed up for the mission that will see the company’s BFR spacecraft fly beyond low-earth orbit […]
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(Reuters) — SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space transportation company, on Monday named its first private passenger on a voyage around the moon as Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, the founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo. A former drummer in a punk band, Maezawa is tentatively planning to make his moon flight in 2023 aboard […]
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ahead of the today’s imminent reveal of the mystery passenger who will fly around the moon in spaceX‘s forthcoming big falcon rocket, elon musk has tweeted two new renders of the spacecraft. announced for the first time last year and nicknamed ‘big f***ing rocket’ by musk, the 348 feet tall (106 meters) ship will contain up to 40 […]
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Grimes’s boyfriend and possible Bond supervillain Elon Musk took a break from launching sports cars into space, trying to colonize Mars, and fighting with small-town artists to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast Thursday night, which was broadcast live on YouTube. The two had a very long, wide-ranging conversation that touched on electric planes, multiple universes, […]
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