SpaceX plans to launch 90 rockets into space from a Santa Barbara County military base by 2026, tripling the number of explosions that rock coastal communities and raising concerns from neighbors and environmental groups about the effects on marine life. SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has increased the number of rocket launches from Vandenberg… Read More »
Ending an era in U.S. rocketry, United Launch Alliance fired its 16th and final triple-core Delta 4 Heavy Tuesday and launched a secret spy satellite in the final flurry of a storied family of rockets dating back to the dawn of the space age. The Heavy’s three hydrogen-fueled RS-68A first stage engines ignited with a… Read More »
Lighting up the deep sky overnight, a Falcon 9 rocket roared away from Florida early Thursday, supporting a commercially built robotic lander flying to the moon. If successful, it will be the first American spacecraft to reach the lunar surface in more than 50 years. It was SpaceX’s second flight in less than eight hours,… Read More »
China’s Chang’e-4 lunar probe taken on the far side of the moon by the Yutu-2 lunar rover.China National Space Administration/AFP via Getty Images More than 50 years after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the world is racing towards the lunar surface again. NASA was planning to land astronauts on the lunar surface earlier… Read More »
SpaceX will send a crew of astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday, January 17, for the special Ax-3 mission for Axiom Space, but you’ll need to know where and when if you plan to watch it live online. And for that, space fans, we have what you need. The Ax-3 mission, Axiom Space’s… Read More »
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The U.S. military’s stealthy X-37B robotic spaceplane took off from Florida on Thursday night for its seventh mission; This was the first mission to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, which could take it to a higher orbit than ever before. Consisting of… Read More »
A powerful SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket vaulted over a torrent of burning exhaust from Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, launching its sky-lighting twin-headed launch vehicle into orbit to launch a pilotless X-37B spaceplane into orbit for a secret, long-duration military mission. At the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, another team of SpaceX engineers was… Read More »
It’s a tiny spaceplane, not quite 30 feet long and less than 10 feet high, with a pair of short wings and a rounded, bulldog-like nose. But despite its small size (it looks like a miniature version of the space shuttle), the Pentagon’s most mysterious spacecraft, known as X-37B, has achieved enormous fame. A secret… Read More »