This week SpaceX posted two new jobs for “offshore operations engineers” in Brownsville, Texas. Elon Musk, who founded the aerospace company in 2002, all but confirmed in a tweet on Tuesday that the jobs are to help build “floating, superheavy-class spaceports” for its next-generation Starship vehicle. Ocean-platform launches as a […]
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has posted new details about Starship: a fully reusable and potentially industry-upending rocket system that may land the first people on Mars. In September, Musk unveiled the first 16-story prototype. However, a pressure test in November caused the Starship to partly explode, shooting its giant domed […]
On Saturday, Elon Musk showed off new details of SpaceX’s planned super-heavy launch system called Starship. SpaceX posted a new animation on YouTube that shows the 39-story rocket launching from Boca Chica, Texas, where the company is developing the system, including a prototype called Starship Mark 1. The animation underscores […]
Elon Musk on Saturday presented SpaceX’s newest plan to develop a super-heavy launch system called Starship. Starship is a roughly 40-story rocket, designed to send up to 100 people to the surface of Mars. Musk delivered his talk in front of a smaller prototype called Starship Mark 1. Musk envisions […]
SpaceX on Thursday launched its Falcon Heavy for the second time in history. The Falcon Heavy is the world’s second-most-powerful rocket in history and the most powerful operational rocket today. It costs an estimated $US90 million to $US150 million a launch, which is low compared with other rocket launches. Visit […]
Elon Musk‘s aerospace company, SpaceX, successfully launched a resupply ship for NASA to the International Space Station on Wednesday. As a cost-saving bonus, SpaceX also tried to land the 16-story-tall booster of its Falcon 9 rocket on a ground pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida . However, videos show the Falcon […]
NASA is building a super-heavy-lift rocket called the Space Launch System to send astronauts back to the moon. The SLS program has seen multiple delays and cost overruns, and the rocket is not reusable. Elon Musk’s and Jeff Bezos’ aerospace companies,SpaceX and Blue Origin, are developing comparable yet reusable (and […]
SpaceX successfully launched its new Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket for the first time on Friday. Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said it’s the most powerful, reliable, and reusable Falcon 9 yet – and the company’s final major revision of the rocket. The mission also landed a giant rocket […]
SpaceX tried to launch Bangladesh’s first geostationary communications satellite on Thursday night, but computers automatically aborted the attempt. The soonest SpaceX can try again to launch the rocket is on Friday at 4:14 p.m. ET. The Bangabandhu Satellite-1 mission will be the first to fly on a Falcon 9 Block […]
Once the butt-end of rocket industry jokes, SpaceX has completely disrupted the world’s market for launches with high-performance, increasingly low-cost, and ever-more-reusable rockets. Founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk in 2002, SpaceX did not have an easy start – it was bordering on bankruptcy in 2008 after three failed launches. Today […]
SpaceX turned heads around the world on February 6 with the first launch of Falcon Heavy. The 230-foot-tall rocket’s three boosters helped push Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster into space, peeled off after running low on fuel, and then careened toward Earth. Two of the 16-story boosters rocketed to a safe […]
SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful operational rocket, called Falcon Heavy, on February 6. The company recovered two of the rocket’s three reusable boosters and launched founder Elon Musk’s red Tesla Roadster toward Mars orbit. A former Pentagon official said the successful launch “ranks up there with the first Apollo […]
SpaceX launched a European communications satellite on Wednesday. The mission launched on a Falcon 9 rocket with a refurbished, older-style booster. The company expected its used booster to explode after an experimental landing in the ocean, but it was found floating intact. SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the company planned […]
SpaceX is targeting February 6 to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time. Elon Musk, the company’s founder, has previously said “there is a good chance this monster rocket blows up.” Musk plans to launch his own red Tesla Roadster with the rocket as a test payload. “Space […]
SpaceX successfully launched the newest and final version of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket on Friday. The rocket, called Falcon 9Block 5, has a giant booster that can be launched, landed, and re-flown 10 to 100 times or more. Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said the new rocket could […]
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, revealed a photo on instagram of a giant tool that will help build “Big Falcon Rocket” spaceships. The tool is a huge mould to create a carbon-fibre composite body for the spaceships, which could enable travel to Mars. Carbon-fibre is stronger than steel and […]
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, launched a Bangladeshi communications satellite on Friday. But the main attraction was the final version of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, called Block 5. Falcon 9 Block 5 may deliver up to 10% more thrust, a 10- to 100-fold improvement in reusability, and […]
