Category: Spacex

Initial Creative Emmy winners include Apple, Netflix and NASA

[ad_1] Other victors were decidedly less conventional. Apple’s take on Carpool Karaoke won as the best short form variety series, while Google’s VR short film Age of Sail picked up three awards for color and design. The Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media award was split evenly between the AI-themed Twitch series Artificial and the Oculus […]

SpaceX wouldn’t move its satellite despite European collision warning

[ad_1] ESA experts calculated there was a 1 in 1,000 chance of a collision between the two satellites occurring, as reported by Forbes. That’s a slim chance, but it was enough for the ESA to decide to intervene. “We informed SpaceX, who replied and said that they do not plan to take action,” Holger Krag, […]

SpaceX’s Starhopper successfully completes its 150m hover test (updated)

[ad_1] Just like yesterday, SpaceX is lined up to attempt its most ambitious launch yet of the water tower-like Starhopper test vehicle. This is all in preparation for its upcoming Starship, but first the Raptor engines and frame need some shorter non-orbital attempts. If all goes well, it will fly to around 500 feet high […]

SpaceX Starman Roadster completes its first orbit around the Sun

[ad_1] You aren’t about to see Starman drifting through the night sky, unfortunately. Earth is currently on the opposite side of the Sun, and the EV won’t get vaguely close to Earth again until November 5th, 2020, when it’ll be about 0.346AU (just under 32.2 million miles) away. It’ll get much closer to Mars before […]

SpaceX ‘rideshare’ program launches satellites for just $2.5 million

[ad_1] SpaceX is expanding its launch services to directly address the needs of small satellite operators through regularly scheduled, dedicated Falcon 9 rideshare missions https://t.co/jqQxEdt4xp pic.twitter.com/3gzOPxdVkW — SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 5, 2019 Rides scheduled more than a year before launch will start at $2.5 million for payloads of up to 150 kg (330 lbs) and […]

NASA will help SpaceX and Blue Origin develop future mission technology

[ad_1] One of NASA’s chosen companies is SpaceX, which will work on advancing its technology to land large rockets vertically on the moon with the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Elon Musk’s company is also teaming up with NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama to refine its […]

SpaceX’s Starhopper test vehicle successfully makes its first bounce

[ad_1] After completing zero of two launch attempts on Wednesday, SpaceX went two for two on Thursday. Its Dragon spacecraft is making a third trip to the ISS, while its Starhopper test vehicle took a tiny jump from its test pad in Texas (the picture above is from Wednesday’s fiery test that was aborted just […]

Watch SpaceX launch a twice-used Dragon capsule at 6:24PM ET (updated)

[ad_1] There will be ample cargo aboard the capsule, including an experiment for 3D-printing human tissue, a study of the effects of tissue healing in microgravity, a test for how microbes interact with rocks and a second docking adapter for new capsules like the Crew Dragon and Boeing’s Starliner. It’s also a symbolic mission. The […]