Actor and director on International Space Station push ahead of Hollywood project led by Tom CruiseThe list of “firsts” in orbit under the Soviet space programme is legendary: first satellite, first dog, first man, first woman.Now another looms after R…
NASA’s ‘Armageddon’-style asteroid deflection mission takes off in November
NASA has a launch date for that most Hollywood of missions, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which is basically a dry run of the movie “Armageddon.” Unlike the film, this will not involve nukes, oil rigs or Aerosmith, but instead is a practical test of our ability to change the trajectory of an asteroid in […]
Revealed: The secret notes of Blue Origin leaders trying to catch SpaceX
“They have a customer focus. We should too.”
‘You can’t sue your way to the moon’: Elon Musk intensifies Bezos space feud
SpaceX founder, who in April won a contract from Nasa, took a jab at Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for suing when it lost out on dealElon Musk intensified the feud over lawsuits and rocket sizes with space rival Jeff Bezos this week, kicking off the latest…
Researchers use Starlink satellites to pinpoint location, similar to GPS
Researchers track six satellites to get location with accuracy of eight meters.
Peter Beck says Rocket Lab actively prepared for interplanetary missions ‘from day one’
Rocket Lab long ago graduated from underdog launch provider to industry heavyweight (with funding to match). Now the company is planning to go to the moon, Mars and Venus in the next decade.
Inspiration4’s successful splashdown is just the beginning of private spaceflight for SpaceX
Just like that, they came back. The Inspiration4 crew made a triumphant splashdown on Saturday evening off the east coast of Florida, marking the close of the first completely private, all-civilian space mission. SpaceX’s Go Searcher recovery ship hauled the Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, a little less than an hour after splashdown. The crew […]
After Inspiration4, SpaceX sees high demand for free-flyer missions
“We have interest for both Dragons and Starships, which is pretty exciting.”
Elon Musk welcomes SpaceX crew home with $50m donation to charity
Four-person crew asked for the public’s help in reaching fundraising target of $200m for the children’s charity St JudeElon Musk surprised his first all-private crew of space tourists with a welcome home gift after their trailblazing trip to orbit ende…
The FAA releases initial report on Boca Chica launches, and it’s not terrible
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