SpaceX

September 9, 2022 by Aishwarya shashikumar When Dogecoin first appeared on the scene, it completely changed the game. Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, seized every chance to support DOGE. By adding support for the meme cryptocurrency asset on Tesla, SpaceX, and most lately, Loop, he increased his interest in…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain While hundreds of thousands of people made their way to the Space Coast two weekends in a row for a shot to see the most powerful rocket to ever lift off from Earth, a couple of scrubs for NASA's Artemis I mission left them disappointed. But…

OneWeb has taken a $229.2 million hit after it cancelled launches from Russia's Baikonur facility, and a number of its low Earth orbit satellites that were waiting to be sent to space were not returned. The detail was disclosed in OneWeb's annual report , in which the company announced revenue…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX sent a space tug aloft along with another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Sunday night (Sept. 4) — and landed a rocket on a ship at sea as well. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on…

Interview "There is no SpaceX without NASA," Thomas Zurbuchen, an associate administrator at the US space agency's Science Mission Directorate, told The Register this week as a Falcon 9 lurked in the background at Cape Canaveral. Zurbuchen was not being combative – SpaceX boss Elon Musk has acknowledged the mutual…

Spacecraft engineering company SpaceX and T-Mobile recently announced a partnership that will enable smartphones to connect directly to satellites. According to GSM Arena, this will be supported by upcoming Starlink V2 satellites but will work with existing phones because it will use an existing band in the PCS spectrum. Google…

Asteroids, comets, and other near-Earth objects (NEOs) pass by our planet daily. Meteors and even some asteroids have impacted our planet, often leaving fiery displays in the sky behind them. As of yet, though, we haven’t had to worry about any killer asteroids coming too close. But a recent survey…

Former NASA astronaut Doug Hurley visited with Spaceflight Now before the launch of the Artemis 1 lunar test flight. Hurley is a veteran of two space shuttle missions and commanded the first piloted test flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in 2020. He is now a senior director of business…

by Jeff Foust — September 1, 2022 NASA will add $1.44 billion to an existing SpaceX commercial crew contract for five more Crew Dragon missions to the ISS. Credit: NASA TITUSVILLE, Fla. — NASA announced Aug. 31 that it has extended its commercial crew contract with SpaceX, adding five missions…

NASA has awarded five additional missions to SpaceX for crew transportation services to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract. The CCtCap modification brings the total missions for SpaceX to 14 and allows NASA to maintain an uninterrupted U.S. capability for human…