Tag: SpaceX
SpaceX delays supply launch to International Space Station
SpaceX has delayed a supply run to the International Space Station. A Falcon rocket was poised to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a Dragon cargo capsule. However, a last-minute problem cropped up with the ocean platform for recovering the first-stage booster following lift-off. SpaceX said it will try again on Saturday. Standing down…
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket takes off for first commercial flight
SpaceX has launched the world’s most powerful rocket on its first commercial mission. The new and improved Falcon Heavy thundered into the early evening sky on Thursday with a communication satellite called Arabsat, the rocket’s first paying customer. Eight minutes after lift-off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, SpaceX landed two of the first-stage…
Israeli Beresheet spacecraft set to become first commercial moon lander
An Israeli spacecraft will become the first private craft to land on the moon when it touches down on the lunar surface later today (Thursday April 11th, 2019). In a first for commercial space travel, non-profit organisation SpaceIL is hoping to see its Beresheet craft successfully complete a landing on the moon, and in the…
SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule ends test flight with ocean splashdown
The SpaceX crew capsule has returned to Earth, ending its first test flight with an old-fashioned splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean. The Dragon undocked from the International Space Station early on Friday. Six hours later, the capsule carrying a test dummy dropped into the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed! pic.twitter.com/WK1nsNnOF5…
SpaceX capsule departs International Space Station for Atlantic splashdown
SpaceX’s new crew capsule has undocked from the International Space Station and is heading towards an old-fashioned splashdown. The Dragon capsule pulled away from the orbiting lab with a test dummy named Ripley as its lone occupant. It is aiming for a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast, the final hurdle of the six-day…
Japanese billionaire boasts retweet top spot with money giveaway promise
A Japanese billionaire posted the most retweeted tweet of all time by offering those sharing it a cut of 100 million yen. Yusaku Maezawa’s January 5 post, which has more than 4.6 million retweets, promised to randomly select 100 people who shared the tweet and followed his profile for a share in the £726,000 fund.…
2018 Space Exploration highlights – Space X test flight, NASA InSight Mars landing
Mankind’s curiosity to see what lies beyond planet Earth progressed further in 2018, with a number of successful missions and test flights that could see ordinary folk blast off on rockets within a few years. However, the year in which NASA turned 60 and the International Space Station (ISS) celebrated its 20th anniversary didn’t go…
WATCH: A SpaceX rocket ALMOST land on a barge
Yesterday SpaceX launched its latest Dragon rocket to deliver supplies to the International Space Station, and after the first stage of the rocket had separated, something rather special happened. Or almost happened, anyway. The plan was to try to land it safely back down on a floating barge - something that has never been done…
CATCH-UP: SpaceX unveil Dragon V2 capsule that will send humans to space
Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla Cars and SpaceX has unveiled his latest spaceship: the Dragon V2 capsule, which could soon be blasting astronauts towards the International Space Station. In a 15 minute presentation whilst we Brits slept last night,…
This crappy video shows a giant leap in space rocket technology
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX has announced something rather significant in his company's work: They've managed to land a rocket booster safely in the ocean, making the goal of reusable rockets come all that closer. If you've been following space…
