Full Christmas Dinner Launched to International Space Station
A Falcon 9 rocket transported a bountiful holiday spread from Cape Canaveral to workers aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday.
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NASA Advisory Group Warns that SpaceX Launch Technology Could Be Extremely Dangerous
A NASA advisory group has warned that new technology in Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets could be extremely dangerous to manned missions.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Loses ‘Zuma’ Government Payload
Elon Musk’s SpaceX appears to have lost a mysterious government payload known as “Zuma” in their latest rocket launch.
California Commercial Satellite Boom Goes Ballistic
California’s Space X and Boeing are going ballistic in a race to dominate the deployment of up to 30,000 low-orbit 5G communications satellites over the next decade.
SpaceX Launches New Economic and Military Space Race
SpaceX completed a successful mission lift-off Thursday of a used Falcon 9 booster rocket, landing it successfully once again on a platform in the ocean.
Elon Musk: ‘I’d like to Die on Mars, Just Not on Impact’
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled his plan for “bold moves by private enterprise” to colonize Mars, beginning in 2022, at his keynote speech this week for the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico.
SpaceX Explosion Threatens Private Takeover of Space
An explosion Thursday in Cape Canaveral during a routine static test-fire of the nine Merlin 1D engines that power the first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is the company’s second catastrophic failure in the last two years, and puts at risk the expected private sector takeover of space flight.
Space Boom: Reusable SpaceX Rocket Cuts Launch Costs by 1/3
By cutting future commercial space flight costs by a third with their successful landing of a spent first-stage vehicle on a barge in the Atlantic, SpaceX just ignited an economic space boom that will be the defining feature of the
SpaceX Tries Again–and Almost Does It
Elon Musk and SpaceX did it again–almost. It landed its Falcon 9 rocket booster on a floating drone ship in the ocean. However, the booster landed too hard and broke a landing leg.
Elon Musk, SpaceX Launch Era of Space Militarization
The December 21 reusable recovery of a SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has improved the economics of commercial activity in space, but it has fundamentally changed the military balance of power and, perhaps inadvertently, launched the era of space militarization.
WATCH: SpaceX Rocket Explodes after Missing Landing
SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted a video to Twitter Friday showing his company’s Falcon 9 rocket crashing in a fiery explosion on a barge in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The rocket had just returned from making a delivery
SpaceX Will Try to Land a Rocket on an Ocean Barge
Southern California-based SpaceX will attempt to go where no man has gone before; but it’s not where you would think.
