SpaceX

While SpaceX was garnering headlines with the launch of its new and extremely powerful Falcon Heavy platform, another SpaceX rocket stage may have been the target of a U.S. Air Force air strike in the Atlantic Ocean. Only days before the Falcon Heavy’s inaugural launch, SpaceX launched the SES-16/GovSat-1 mission. The mission was, for the […]

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 […]

Last week, Elon Musk made headlines by selling 20,000 Boring Company branded “flame throwers” in a matter of days. The novelty item technically isn’t a flame thrower at all, and could be more accurately described as a powerful torch, but that didn’t stop the nomenclature from getting a rise out of U.S. Reps. Eliot Engel […]

On Tuesday, SpaceX plans to launch not only a new rocket platform, but a new era of private space enterprises with the inaugural flight of the seven-year in the making Falcon Heavy. Much ado has been made about this massive platform’s mind boggling 27 Merlin rocket engines, producing thrust equal to that of approximately 18 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’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 […]

Last week, SOFREP reported on what was to be SpaceX’s first launch of the year: a mysterious payload funded by the federal government and provided by Northop Grumman. For some reason, SpaceX was treating this mission with more secrecy than any previous launch, including those conducted for the National Reconnaissance Office and even deployment missions […]

The International Space Station has long been an orbiting demonstration of what human beings are capable of when they toss national differences aside and focus on a common goal. Even amid rising tensions between the United States and Russia, the space station’s primary financiers, orbital operations have remained friendly and cooperative – but budgetary constraints […]

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 […]