SpaceX launch sends 3D bioprinter, supplies to space station – CTV News
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A space capsule carrying a 3D printer to make human tissue and about 5,000 pounds of other experiments and supplies is on its way to the International Space Station after a thunderous SpaceX launch. The private company's Falcon 9 rock…
Is space truly within reach for startups and VC?
Elon Musks SpaceX managed to pull off something very few people thought it could — by disrupting one of the most fixed markets in the world with some of the most entrenched and protected players ever to benefit from government contract arrangements: rocket la…
bubmagJuly 25, 2019
Elon Musk’s Boring Company snags $120 million in new funding
Elon Musks tunneling and transportation startup The Boring Company has raised its first outside investment through the sale of $120 million in stock, according to a securities filing. The details of authorized sale of stock were first reported by Bloomberg N…
bubmagJuly 25, 2019
Watch SpaceX launch a twice-flown Dragon capsule for its 18th ISS mission live
Let’s try this again: SpaceX is looking to launch its 18th International Space Station (ISS) resupply mission on Thursday at 6:01 PM ET (3:01 PM PT), a day after it tried to do so a first time. The initial attempt was scrubbed at the last minute due to weathe…
bubmagJuly 25, 2019
See SpaceX abort test seconds after bursts of flames erupt
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bubmagJuly 25, 2019
ispace Europe tapped by the European Space Agency for mission to extract water from the Moon
Space startup ispace, which is headquartered in Japan but has a European subsidiary based in Luxembourg, will take part in PROSPECT, a program run by the European Space Agency (ESA) that intends to extreme water from the Moon’s southern pole, with a target mi…
bubmagJuly 25, 2019
Why is India sending humanoid robots into space?
Image copyrightEPAImage caption The GSLV Mark III rocket is going to be used for the flight Before humans headed up there, animals were the first living creatures that were sent into space. But India will now become the first nation to fly a spacecraft wit…
bubmagJuly 25, 2019
SpaceX untethered StarHopper ‘hop’ test flight aborted after engines briefly flare
SpaceX encountered a snag in an attempted test key to the development of its next-generation Starship spacecraft. Specifically, the StarHopper sub scale demonstration and testing craft it’s using to work on the Starthip’s propulsion system fails to undertake …
bubmagJuly 25, 2019
Elon Musk plans trickier Hyperloop test tunnel after record broken – CNET
There's a new speed record for the Hyperloop. Antuan Goodwin/Roadshow Elon Musk's vision for a Hyperloop future took another step Sunday at the 2019 Hyperloop Pod Competition. Not only was a new world speed record set at the event, but there may be a longe…
bubmagJuly 22, 2019