It was exactly a decade ago, on December 21, that SpaceX entered the record books by becoming the first organization to recover an orbital-class rocket by landing it vertically back on Earth. Coming seven years after the idea was first mooted by SpaceX…
Tory Bruno’s abrupt departure comes after 12 years in the role. The company, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture, has had to fight to keep pace with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Waymo’s robotaxis suffered a serious failure on Saturday when a power outage affecting a large part of San Francisco caused problems for its autonomous cars in the city. Some 130,000 residents lost power to their homes and businesses, while the outage …
The $816 million contract follows a separate $515 million — both awarded by the U.S. Space Development Agency.
SpaceX says it has lost control of a Starlink satellite that’s now falling back to Earth after suffering an anomaly. The sudden loss of communications, drop in altitude, “venting of the propulsion tank,” and “release of a small number of trackable low relative velocity objects,” suggests the anomaly was some kind of explosion. SpaceX says […]
Astronauts visiting the International Space Station (ISS) typically spend about six months there before returning to Earth, though it’s true that a number of them have ended up staying for considerably longer periods of time. Living in cooped up condit…
EtherealX aims to take on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 with its fully reusable rocket.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five years ago. In that time, NASA’s most advanced rover to date, which is about the size of a small car, has traveled almost 25 miles …
This year sees a quarter of a century of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and to mark the occasion NASA on Wednesday posted a video tour of this masterpiece of engineering and innovation. You can watch it via the …
Isaacman will run the space agency at a time when Trump is trying to both downsize it and task it with returning astronauts to the moon.