Tagged: SpaceX

The descent looked like a ‘flying whirlpool’ over Hawaii. A dying SpaceX rocket stage generated a strange and stunning “night spiral” over Hawaii. The Subaru Telescope captured a video of the “flying whirlpool,” on Sunday (April 17) near Mauna Kea, hours after a California-based Falcon...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Navid Constantinou, Research Fellow, Australian National University Adele Morrison, Research Fellow, Australian National University Andrew Kiss, Research fellow, Australian National University Andy Hogg, Professor, Australian...

SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster is a complicated beast. On Thursday (July 29), SpaceX chief Elon Musk gave us an inside look at the engine section of a Super Heavy that’s coming together at the company’s South Texas site, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca...

SpaceX launched thousands of tiny sea creatures to the International Space Station on Thursday, along with a plaque-fighting toothpaste experiment and powerful solar panels. The 7,300-pound (3,300-kilogram) shipment—which also includes fresh lemons, onions, avocados and cherry tomatoes for the station’s seven astronauts—should arrive Saturday. SpaceX’s...

SpaceX’s launch of its Crew-2 mission on Friday morning, April 23, 2021, was spectacular by all accounts. The Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Crew Dragon capsule lit up the predawn skies over historic pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, blasting off at...

The parachute cover from SpaceX’s Demo-2 Crew Dragon was recovered by a fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico, and now sits in a private memorabilia collection belonging to a SpaceX investor. According to a new bill just passed in Florida, artifacts like these belong...

Starlink is the name of a satellite network that SpaceX is developing to provide global broadband coverage for high-speed internet access, particularly for people across the world in rural and remote areas. SpaceX has launched more than 600 new Starlinks this year, typically launching 60...

The launching of thousands of satellites into low Earth orbit by tech billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX threatens the “de-facto monopolisation” of space, the head of competitor Arianespace Stephane Israel has warned. Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation project recently received authorisation from US regulator the Federal Communications...

SpaceX will launch a satellite to the Moon next year funded entirely with the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, Canadian company Geometric Energy Corporation, which will lead the lunar mission, announced Sunday. The satellite, dubbed DOGE-1, will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the first...

The capsule just returned from space with four astronauts. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Resilience may have just returned to Earth, but it already has a new mission: to carry the first private astronaut flight for SpaceX. After completing a 167-day stay at the International Space...