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Noctilucent clouds — the world’s rarest clouds — appeared over the San Francisco Bay area during the early hours of Friday morning, just a few days after yet another SpaceX rocket launch. Rain Hayes, a local photographer, saw the clouds sailing over Lake Merritt in Oakland two days ago at around 6.30 a.m. before sharing images … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX unveils secretive ‘Starshield’ variation of its Starlink satellites that are designed to support the US military Musk’s firm has quietly revealed an ambitious business venture called Starshield SpaceX claims the venture will be dedicated to supporting US national security It will initially focus on hosted payloads, Earth observation and communications By Jonathan Chadwick For … Read more
SpaceX Starship’s Super Heavy Rocket is ready for what could be its final launch pad test before a likely orbital test flight in July. The massive Super Heavy Booster 7, which has 33 Raptor engines, was transported to its orbital launch pad on June 23. An enormous robotic arm mounted the rocket to the launch … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 for its 13th flight on Friday, setting a new record for the most times one of its rockets have ventured off into space and returned safely back on Earth. The two-stage booster, known as B1060, ignited its nine Merlin engines at 12:09pm while on Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy … Read more
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches 53 more Starlink satellites into orbit before Falcon 9 rocket lands on a boat to be used again SpaceX launched its latest fleet of 53 Starlink internet satellites into orbit today Used two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carried payload into space before landing at sea Booster launched from NASA’s Pad 39A at … Read more
SpaceX and Blue Origin reusable rockets are POLLUTING the atmosphere: Exhaust fumes from rocket engines could affect Earth’s climate, study warns Rise of low-cost space flight ‘increasing engine exhaust pollution in atmosphere’ That is the conclusion of new study carried out by University of Nicosia in Cyprus They believe it could increase mesospheric CO2 and … Read more
SpaceX will take an international crew of astronauts to the ISS tomorrow, in a Crew Dragon capsule named ‘freedom’ after the first American in space, Alan Shepard. Known as the Crew-4 mission, it will carry NASA’s Kjell N. Lindgren, Robert Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA’s Samantha Cristoforetti to the ISS from NASA’s Kennedy Space … Read more
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for 12th mission putting 53 new Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit and landing on a boat to be used again SpaceX is hoping to launch rockets at least once per week throughout the year This latest launch is the 12th time this particular first stage Falcon 9 has launched … Read more
SpaceX crew name their new Dragon capsule ‘Freedom’ in tribute to Alan Shepard – the first American in space – and his Freedom 7 capsule: Spacecraft will take astronauts to the ISS NASA will send the next crew to the International Space Station from April 19 With Jessica Watkins, Robert Hines, Kjell Lindgren and Samantha … Read more
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave an update on the highly-anticipated interplanetary Starship rocket which he aims to take to the Moon in 2025 and later Mars, during a press conference at his Starbase in Texas on Thursday. Musk, 50, told the crowd that he believes he could successfully launch the Starship spacecraft into orbit by the end of … Read more