Thursday, March 30, 2023

SpaceX

NASA-SpaceX crew-6 mission enroute to space for scientific research

 SpaceX on Thursday for the seventh time launched an international crew of four astronauts -- two from NASA and one each from Roscosmos and the UAE. "Liftoff! Dragon takes flight!" NASA wrote on Twitter. The Crew-6 mission, launched to the International...

SpaceX launches U.S. Space Force’s first mission of 2023

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off Jan. 15 at 5:56 p.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, carrying the U.S. Space Force USSF-67 mission to geostationary Earth orbit.USSF-67 was the Space Force’s first national security...

SpaceX caps 2022 with record-setting 61st launch

Closing out a record-setting year, SpaceX launched a $186 million Israeli Earth-imaging satellite early Friday, the California rocket builder’s 61st and final Falcon 9 launch of 2022 and its seventh this month, both modern-day records.Since the rocket’s debut in...

NASA picks SpaceX for 2nd crewed Starship demonstration mission to moon

 NASA has awarded a contract modification to Elon Musk-run SpaceX to further develop its Starship human landing system to meet agency requirements for long-term human exploration of the Moon under Artemis. With this addition, SpaceX will provide a second crewed...

S.Korea to shun Russian rockets, to go with Musk’s SpaceX

South Korea has decided to cancel plans to launch satellites using Russian rockets later this year amid the international community's sanctions on Russia's space programme over the Ukrainian war, a government document showed on Wednesday. The government is most likely...

SpaceX launches 51 more Starlink satellites in its 40th mission

Elon Musk-run SpaceX on Monday said it has successfully deployed 51 more Starlink satellites in space, completing its 40th mission so far this year. The Falcon 9 rocket launched 51 Starlink satellites and Spaceflight's Sherpa-LTC to orbit from Space Launch...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX sends 46 Starlink satellites into orbit

Billionaire Elon Musk's space venture SpaceX has successfully launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. Starlink provides high-speed, low-latency broadband Internet across the globe. It has more than 2,50,000 users globally. The 46 satellites took off to space on Falcon 9...

Musk back on Twitter after 10-day hiatus, feeling ‘little bored’

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday broke his 10-day long Twitter silence, admitting that he was feeling a bit bored.Musk took his longest-ever ‘digital detox’ from Twitter in nearly five years, leaving his more than 100 million...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins environmental nod for Starship rocket launch

San Francisco: Elon Musk's SpaceX has received environment clearance from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for developing and testing its giant Starship rocket launch vehicle in Texas. The review, known as a programmatic environmental assessment (PEA), which gauged the...

Bill Gates doubts Elon Musk’s Twitter buy: Report

Despite a strong track record with his other business ventures, tech honcho Bill Gates said that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could potentially make the micro-blogging site Twitter a ‘worse’ platform.According to CNN, Gates sounded a note of...