Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday that he thinks it would be a “good idea” to pool his four businesses – Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company – under one giant holding company. Dave Lee, a YouTuber and Tesla investor, suggested the idea. He said the holding company could be called …
Read More »SpaceX spacecraft prototype successfully launched … and then crashed in a huge fireball
A prototype of the future giant SpaceX Starship rocket, which the company hopes will become its destination for missions to Mars, crashed in a fiery explosion during a test launch along the Texas coast on Wednesday. But the company’s line was optimistic as a live broadcast of the launch showed …
Read More »SpaceX Spacecraft Prototype Explodes Upon Landing After Test Launch, Elon Musk Hails Ascent As Success
SpaceX’s prototype Starship exploded while attempting to land Wednesday after a successful test launch from the company’s rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas, a live video of the flight showed. The Starship rocket destroyed in the crash was a 16-story-tall prototype for the heavy-lift launch vehicle being developed by billionaire …
Read More »Explained: What is the Sentinel-6 satellite and why is it important?
By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | Updated: November 22, 2020 2:33:22 pm Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on November 21 (Photo: Screengrab / Twitter / @ NASA) The Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, designed to monitor the oceans, was launched from …
Read More »SpaceX capsule with 4 astronauts arrives at the space station
CAPE CANAVERAL: SpaceX’s newly launched capsule with four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, its new home until spring. The Dragon capsule came to a stop and docked on Monday night, following a fully automated 27-hour flight from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. “Oh what a good voice …
Read More »Donald Trump just tried to take credit for launching the NASA-SpaceX mission, but Twitter won’t let him
NASA and high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday as part of the US space agency’s first full mission to send a crew into orbit aboard a spacecraft. private. SpaceX Resilience lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket …
Read More »SpaceX launches second crew, regular station crew flights begin
CAPE CANAVERAL: SpaceX sent four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday in the first full taxi flight for NASA by a private company. The Falcon rocket thundered into the night from the Kennedy Space Center with three Americans and a Japanese, the second crew launched by SpaceX. The …
Read More »SpaceX Dragon reaches orbit on historic NASA commercial flight
By: Bloomberg | Updated: November 16, 2020 7:12:28 am The latest launch, known as the Crew-1 mission, comes 18 years after Elon Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. with the ultimate goal of populating other planets. (Source: Twitter / Space X) Four astronauts reached orbit in a SpaceX rocket after …
Read More »Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon reaches orbit on historic NASA commercial flight
Four astronauts reached orbit in a SpaceX rocket after taking off at 7:27 pm from Florida, on the NASA company’s first regular mission to the International Space Station. Sunday’s launch appeared to go according to plan as the Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The first …
Read More »Resilience: NASA and SpaceX send four astronauts to the International Space Station aboard the Falcon 9
NASA and SpaceX on Sunday launched four astronauts on a Tesla-made Falcon 9 flight to the International Space Station (ISS) marking the first space administration mission where it sent astronauts on a full mission aboard a spacecraft from private property. The ship will carry the Crew Dragon Resilience team consisting …
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