SpaceX

The prototype SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will present on today sounds like something straight out of science fiction: its long-hyped Starship Mk1 spacecraft, a next-generation rocket the company describes as a fully, rapidly reusable transportation system designed …

SpaceX is all set to show off its Starship Mk1, a orbital-scale prototype of the spacecraft it eventually plans to use to attain its goal of fully reusable commercial spaceflight. Starship is the key ingredient not only to fully reusable launch and cargo vehi…

Neither SpaceX nor Boeing, which also received a contract for providing transportation for NASA astronauts, appears to be on track to launch crews this year. When the contracts were awarded in 2014, NASA hoped that the flights would begin as early as 2017. W…

This evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will give an update on the design and future of his company’s next-generation rocket, Starship, a massive vehicle that is meant to take people to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. The concept for Starship has evolved in numerous w…

The number of objects in orbit around Earth has been growing, and growing fast. Before 1957, of course, there were a total of zero human-made objects in the orbital region of outer space just beyond Earths atmosphere. There were 4,987 satellites orbiting the …

Rocket Report: Blue Origin crew flights may slip to 2020, final Soyuz FG launch

Pear, a Palo Alto-based seed stage fund that has made its name through early bets on Guardant Health, DoorDash, Memebox, and Gusto, among others, hosted its sixth annual demo day this week in what proved to be a scorchingly hot afternoon in Woodside, Californ…

Elon Musk is well-known for his decidedly pessimistic views on artificial intelligence. In the past he has predicted that the advent of an AI superintelligence could end up turning human beings into an endangered species like the mountain gorilla. On Wednesd…

Blue Origin has already carried out 10 successful test flights, including one that launched eight NASA experiments. But the company has yet to deliver on its long-promised crewed flights. It first planned to send humans to space in 2018. That was pushed to 20…

The launch of Tesla's first factory in China will likely come at a difficult time for auto companies in the world's largest passenger-vehicle market. The electric-car maker is building a factory in Shanghai that it expects to begin producing vehicles by the …