Amber Heard, the beautiful actress and ex-wife of actor Johnny Depp, and Elon Musk, billionaire supremo of SpaceX and Tesla cars, have effectively announced that they are in a relationship. Thrice-married Musk (once to the author Justine Wilson and twice to the...
While SpaceX concentrates on making its partly reusable rocket even more low cost, by dint of recovering the payload fairing using control thrusters and parachutes, it has even grander ambitions. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has apparently decided to resuscitate his plan...
At the Space Symposium 2017 conference in Colorado, the European Commission (EC) – the European Union’s (EU) executive and policy making arm – announced that it would ask European states to fly on Arianespace Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets. Elzbieta Bienkowska, the EC’s...
The would-be commercial communications satellite operator Global-IP Cayman has ordered a launch from SpaceX for its GiSat-1 communications spacecraft. The launch will take place in Q4 2018. The spacecraft is a Ka-band HTS (High Throughput Satellite) and is currently...
When SpaceX first achieved the recovery of its Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage in late 2015 (admittedly after a few failed attempts), the world hailed it as a new step in spaceflight. However, the truth is that nothing practical for actual space operations was proven...
Having been unloaded in late February, the SpaceX Dragon CRS-10 (CRS1-10) spacecraft was unberthed from the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 2145 GMT on 18 March after its NASA delivery mission. At 0911 GMT on 19 March DRAGON CRS-10 was released...
