SpaceX leader Elon Musk has explained how his vision for travel to Mars encompasses uses in low Earth orbit and on the Moon – and may even act as a point-to-point superfast Earth transportation system. Speaking at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2017),...
While we all know that SpaceX has managed to land its Falcon 9 first stages successfully, the firm has, for a bit of fun, released footage of its failed attempts…and some are jolly amusing (see the drunkenly sliding rocket especially). Mind you, they put the...
Lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 2117 GMT, on 12 September, a Russian Soyuz-FG rocket successfully carried its three riders: two NASA astronauts and one Roscosmos cosmonaut, into orbit. Due to the ideal characteristics of the current ISS...
With Hurricane Irma bearing down on Florida and little chance for another attempt the following day, at 1400 GMT, 7 September, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted-off from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, United States. The mission was for the US Air Force (USAF)...
The regional operator Kacific Broadband Satellites has chosen the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle to launch its KACIFIC-1 spacecraft. The satellite which is currently being built by Boeing using a version of its 702 bus design will be launched in 2019. Kacific-1 is a...
In an effort to restore capacity for customers impacted by the recent in-orbit fault on NSS-806 in which 12 of the spacecraft’s transponders were lost, SES has decided to launch its replacement, SES-14, earlier than scheduled on a Ariane 5 flight rather than...
