SpaceX
SpaceX Postpones the Launch of Starlink Project
SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, traded as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 with the goal of reducing space transportation costs to launch the Mars colony. SpaceX has developed several launch vehicles, the StarLink satellite constellations, the Dragon Cargo […]
Next SpaceX mission to the ISS scheduled to launch on Friday, June 29
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up for the upcoming Friday launch towards the International Space Station where its Falcon 9 rocket will take tons of cargo onboard its Dragon capsule towards the space station. The launch is scheduled on upcoming Friday, June 29 at 5.42 a.m. liftoff and the capsule will finally reach the station […]
SpaceX’ Falcon Heavy wins $130 million contract from U.S. Air Force to launch a classified satellite
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company which made some pathbreaking launches over the course of few years has officially won the contract to launch a secret satellite aboard its Falcon Heavy rocket that was recently tagged as the world’s most powerful rocket. According to a published report, United States’ Air Force announced the $130 million contract […]
SpaceX’ private spaceflight to the moon is postponed until 2019
Last year in February 2017, Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced that it would launch two private citizens around the moon by 2018 [this year] in its second crewed mission on its Crew Dragon 2 capsule that was originally designed to carry crew members to the ISS and beyond. SpaceX published a blog on its website stating […]
SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket on Friday at 02:57 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket on an SES-12 mission carrying the largest satellite in the world on Friday, June 01. Luxembourg-based SES became the first customer of SpaceX about fourteen months ago to carry out the launch of a satellite aboard an already used rocket by SpaceX. According to Martin Halliwell – chief […]
The latest SpaceX launch was different in many ways: Fairings, first stage boosters & Block 4 rocket
Less than two weeks after its last rocket launch, SpaceX successfully launched seven satellites in the space on May 22 and the deployment of all the seven satellites took place within an hour and a half post-launch. The latest SpaceX rocket launch was different from its previous launches in many ways. First of all, it […]
TESS satellites sends a stunning test image of more than 200,000 stars
NASA’s new exoplanet-hunting mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) that was launched on April 18 aboard SpaceX Falcon rocket has spent just a few days in the space and yet, it managed to send a stunning test image consisting of more than 200,000 stars in a single frame. The image released by NASA shows […]
TESS captures the first ever test image of more than 200,000 stars in the southern sky
The newly launched exoplanet-hunting spacecraft by NASA has been busy transiting to its destined eccentric orbit around the Earth to capture exoplanets and more in the sky. TESS or Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently the first ever test image captured by one of its four cameras onboard capturing more than 200,000. The image was […]
Chinese space corporation claims to roll out its reusable rockets as early as 2020
Launching rockets and spacecraft and other equipment into space is a costly affair. Although the cost has been declining over the years, it is still much higher than to be called as affordable or cheap. Like SpaceX and Blue Origin which are both US Companies that have been investing billions of dollars into developing rockets […]