June 29 (UPI) — SpaceX launched spy satellites for the United States from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday night. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at the opening of a two-hour window, 8:14 p.m. PDT. The United States’ National Reconnaissance Office described the classified mission as “the second […]
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday night. The rocket lifted off at 8:14 p.m. PT Friday night’s mission, called NROL-186, involved transporting a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, a government agency in charge of designing and building spy satellites for the U.S. After launching vertically, […]
SpaceX is set to launch another set of U.S. spy satellites tonight (June 28). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base during a two-hour window that opens at 11:14 p.m. EDT (8:14 p.m. local California time; 0314 GMT on […]
A large chunk of space debris that was discovered last month on a mountain trail in North Carolina came from a SpaceX capsule that had journeyed to the International Space Station, NASA has confirmed. The slab of debris was found in late May by an employee of The Glamping Collective, a luxury mountaintop resort in […]
On June 28, 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded minutes after launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It was on its way to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. This was the third launch failure of a cargo mission in just eight months. Something went wrong about two minutes into […]
SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today, marking a new milestone in the company’s reusability mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:14 a.m. EDT (1114 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Aboard the rocket was a batch of 23 […]
SpaceX just announced a new version of its Starlink satellite internet antenna that’s small enough to fit in a backpack. The Starlink Mini is a portable kit designed to provide access to the company’s satellite internet service for users on the go. SpaceX is offering a “limited number” of the Starlink Mini antennas for $599 […]
For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom felt at the top of the world – and indeed he was. Grissom crewed the Liberty Bell 7 mission, a ballistic test flight that launched him through the atmosphere from a rocket. During the test, he sat inside a small capsule and reached […]
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday morning from Florida’s Space Coast. The rocket carried another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit for the company’s global high-speed internet network. The rocket took off at 7:14 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. READ: Melbourne Police identify ‘active shooter’ at apartment complex Following the launch, […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA will pay SpaceX up to nearly $1 billion to develop a vehicle capable of steering the International Space Station out of orbit to its final resting place when the federal agency and its partners […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA has awarded SpaceX an $843 million contract to build the vehicle that will bring the International Space Station out of its longtime orbit of Earth when its operating lifespan ends in a few more years. SpaceX, a privately held company controlled by technology mogul Elon Musk, will build the vehicle that […]
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA awarded SpaceX $843 million to build a vehicle capable of pushing the International Space Station into Earth’s atmosphere for its planned destruction around 2030, it said on Wednesday, a task originally meant for Russia’s thrusters. Under its new NASA contract, SpaceX will build what the space agency called the […]