Tagged: SpaceX

DRAMATIC footage shows the terrifying moment a ‘UFO’ narrowly misses the SpaceX rocket on its way to the Space Station – just hours before the astronauts on board were told to brace for a crash in a second near-miss. The ‘space debris’ can be seen...

FOUR astronauts will travel home to Earth from the International Space Station this weekend aboard a SpaceX capsule. The nervy descent is due to begin tomorrow and will conclude on Saturday with a splashdown in ocean near Florida. Nasa astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has more than a thousand small satellites orbiting Earth as part of its Starlink network. To make sure there aren’t any collisions in space, NASA says it’ll work with Musk’s company under a new agreement signed Thursday. NASA and SpaceX signed the...

The same setup that sent Elon Musk’s Tesla toward Mars has a new job, this time for NASA. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will take on its most dramatic mission yet when it launches a lunar lander to the moon in 2023. Pittsburgh-based space robotics...

NASA on Friday selected Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build spacecraft that would land astronauts on the moon for the first time since the last Apollo mission. The award to SpaceX for the “human landing system” was a stunning announcement that marked another major victory for...

When SpaceX launched a rocket carrying an Argentine Earth-observation satellite from California’s Central Coast, both the night sky and social media lit up. People as far away as San Francisco, Sacramento, Phoenix and Reno, Nevada, posted photos of the Falcon 9 rocket’s launch and return...

They were seen sparkling across the skies of Montana right around Christmas: a tidy row of lights that some mistook to be UFOs. The glowing celestial train has been spotted in California, Texas, in the Netherlands and even Chile. And it has astronomers worried. Because...

By now, you’ve no doubt heard of (or seen) Starlink. SpaceX’s mega-satellite constellation has become a permanent fixture in our skies as of late, with several routine passes on any given week. But have you seen the supposed ‘black sheep’ of the flock, DarkSat? Starlink...

PANIC erupted across California after sightings of a huge blue orb in the sky sparked fears of an alien invasion. Taking to Twitter, hysteria broke out as users shared photos of the scene, with some demanding to know what was going on. Bizarre conspiracy theories emerged,...

STARGAZERS have another chance to witness a swarm fo satellites passing over Britain this evening. The “Starink” satellites are operated by SpaceX, a company that hopes to one day beam Wi-Fi to people from space – and we’ve got all the tips you need to...