SpaceX

The first manned flight with SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, which aims to allow astronauts to travel between Earth and the International Space Station (ISS), is set to take place in early 2020. If all goes smoothly, it could even take place in the first quart…

LOS ANGELES, California - Tesla's new electric pickup truck has secured almost 150,000 orders, the company's chief executive Elon Musk boasted on Twitter, just two days after its big reveal went embarrassingly wrong.  The billionaire Tesla co-founder flounde…

Last week, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, we sat down with Maryanna Saenko and Steve Jurvetson, investors who came together to create the investment outfit Future Ventures roughly one year ago. It was their first public appearance together since anno…

If you have a spare $150 CAD, you can reserve your own Tesla Cybertruck when they come into production in late 2021. Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s electric pickup truck to cheering fans in Los Angeles Thursday evening. The livestreamed reveal su…

Tesla revealed its Cybertruck pickup last night, a SciFi-tastic wedge built from the same steel alloy that SpaceX is using for its Starship spaceship. Elon Musk spent about twenty minutes showing off the truck, with demos ranging from a game of tug-of-war ag…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the much-anticipated Cybertruck electric pickup in LA on Thursday, and the vehicle is obviously getting a lot of attention for its eye-catching and unique design. It looks more like a rover designed for space exploration than a tr…

Elon Musk is again set to shake up the automotive industry when he unveils the Tesla pickup truck, but his other company, SpaceX, might currently be a bit shaken itself. During a scheduled pressure test, the Starship Mk1 prototype rocket exploded. SpaceX and …

SpaceX prototype blows its top during ground test mishap

Image copyrightYouTube: LabPadre/Maria POINTER @Bocachicamaria1Image caption The rupture was caught on camera and shared on social media SpaceX's Starship rocket prototype experienced a major failure during pressurisation testing on Wednesday. A video fro…

SpaceX’s Starship Mk1 prototype encountered an explosive failure during early testing in Texas on Wednesday you can see exactly what happened in the video below, but basically it blew its lid during cryogenic testing a standard test that you use to see if the…