Historic first launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy a success

Yes. That’s a real picture of Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster passing by earth. In a moment that was seven years in the making, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the most powerful operational rocket on the planet, successfully took to the skies on Tuesday afternoon. After Elon Musk himself said he would consider the test flight a success […]

SpaceX Falcon Heavy set to launch next week, with a Tesla roadster as the payload

For years now, Elon Musk’s space faring company SpaceX has been whispering wistfully about the Falcon Heavy – a new rocket platform that promises to be the most powerful in current operation anywhere on the planet. First announced in 2011, the project has experienced setback after setback, as the immense amount of thrust produced by […]

Elon Musk is now selling flamethrowers… Here’s how to get one

Flamethrowers have been a part of warfare since the 1st Century, AD – when the Byzantines used a form of incendiary stream called “Greek Fire” to burn enemy ships where they floated. Nearly 2,000 years later, harnessing the destructive power of fire remained integral to military strategies throughout World Wars I and II, where they […]

Watch: Falcon Heavy, most powerful rocket on the planet, conducts first ever burn test

Elon Musk’s space faring company SpaceX made history once again on Wednesday with the successful test firing of the most powerful rocket platform in use anywhere on the planet, the Falcon Heavy. “Falcon Heavy hold-down firing this morning was good. Generated quite a thunderhead of steam,” Musk tweeted about an hour after the test. “Launching […]

Google Lunar X Prize competition to land a rover on the moon ends with no winner

Last year, SOFREP reported on the Google sponsored Lunar X Prize competition. Originating in 2007, the competition was aimed at expanding the burgeoning private space exploration industry beyond orbital operations and all the way to the surface of the moon. There were 29 teams in all that enlisted to compete for the $20 million purse […]

SpaceX and NASA seem to suggest the secretive Zuma mission may not have failed after all

SpaceX’s January 7th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a classified government payload estimated to cost in the neighborhood of one billion dollars was reported a failure by unnamed government officials at the time, but what really happened to the mission, named “Zuma,” remains a mystery lawmakers sought to resolve on Wednesday. The Zuma […]

Military Satellite Launched by Space X Appears Lost

A military satellite launched at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. apparently failed and crashed into the sea. The second stage of the rocket was the cause of the malfunction and represents a big setback in the company’s rocket program. The mission — referred to by the code name […]