SpaceX

For those who have not yet heard: all the kids and their soccer coach have been rescued from the caves. All remaining rescue personnel have made it back to safety. The kids and their coach are now receiving medical attention, and all rescue operations are being broken down. The world basically just gave a collective […]

For decades, the United States has launched large, complex and expensive satellites into orbit to better support the war fighting endeavor. These space-based assets were designed to serve their purpose and live long operational lifespans — but for the most part, were never developed with the idea of space being a contested theater as it […]

The U.S. Air Force Space Command has awarded SpaceX a $130 million-dollar contract for the Falcon Heavy Rocket which the service will use to launch Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)-52 satellite. This was the first large classified military contract for the company. The Falcon Heavy beat United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 in a competition under […]

For decades, American and Russian space adventurers have enjoyed a form of political isolation from the turbulent relationship at play between their national governments. Despite the sanctions, allegations, name calling and rhetoric, American Astronauts and Russian Cosmonauts have worked side by side in places like the International Space Station, placing their national priorities to the […]

Yes, sometimes even Elon Musk can’t make his dreams a reality…at least for a while. Musk has put on hold his original plans to take two paying space tourists around the moon and back to Earth by the end of 2018. Wonder if the two unnamed passengers get a refund? Over the weekend, company spokesman James […]

A lack of suitable government or commercial rocket platforms in the United States has prompted a NASA advisory committee to recommend reducing America’s crew commitments to the International Space Station. In July of 2011, NASA retired the last of its space shuttles and its only domestic means of putting astronauts into orbit. Since then, NASA […]

On Saturday, United Launch Alliance successfully launched an Atlas V rocket carrying the next robot destined for the surface of Mars: Insight. As the only planet (we’re aware of) that is entirely populated by robots, Mars has already seen an array of different machines specially designed to shed light the red planet’s mysteries, but none […]

Back in January, an uncharacteristically secretive SpaceX Falcon 9 launch that was meant to ferry a classified billion dollar satellite into orbit apparently went wrong. Now it appears the fault may have been on Northrop Grumman, the company that built the satellite. The payload, referred to as Zuma, failed to deploy properly once in orbit, […]

On Monday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 departed from Florida with three tons of supplies, equipment, and new experiments for the crew of the International Space Station. As is often the case, the manifest included a few unusual things – including human sperm to be used in experiments regarding human reproduction in microgravity. One such experiment, […]

In many ways, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has helped reenergize public interest in space science, thanks in no small part to the expert marketing and PR efforts they’ve coupled with their ambitious, but often successful, orbital endeavors. SpaceX’s rocket launches, in particular, have become an online spectacle, with multiple camera views live streaming the event to […]

Earlier this year, SpaceX announced that construction was already underway on what is to become the company’s new flagship rocket and space faring vessel, the BFR. According to the company’s founder, Elon Musk, the BFR (short for Big Falcon Rocket) will be capable of ferrying large crews to and from distant locations like Mars, seemingly […]

Although only three nations have managed to successfully put humans in space and return them safely in the near sixty years since Yuri Gagarin’s historic first flight, an influx of private space organizations and national level programs in recent years is beginning to make it look like mankind’s days of loitering in low earth orbit […]