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Amazon's Bezos, latest tycoon to pursue his 'passion'
Feb 03, 2021 (AFP)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, plans to build rockets and save the planet. Bezos, 57, is the latest in a line of corporate titans who have ...
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Florida
Feb 03, 2021 (UPI)
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 1:13 p.m. EST into a sunny, warm sky from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The Starlink launch had been postponed repeated...
Starship conducts successful subsonic reentry tests before fireball ending
Feb 02, 2021 (AFP)
It was the second such accident after the last prototype of Starship met a similar fate in December. "We had again another great flight," said SpaceX announcer ...
SpaceX flies, crashes Starship moon rocket again
Feb 02, 2021 (UPI)
The rocket, named SN9, ascended to a height of more than 6 miles and performed a flip manuever. But after it descended, its engines appeared to ignite improperl...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk says he's off Twitter 'for a while'
Feb 02, 2021 (AFP)
Musk overtook Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to become the world's wealthiest person last month, with a fortune estimated at $185 billion following a nine-fold surge in...
NASA's Artemis I moonshot slips back to April or May
Feb 02, 2021 (UPI)
The space agency said it wasn't working on any "major issues" but that engineers simply needed more time. "There's a lot of activities ... some of them are uniq...
NASA proceeds with plans for second hot fire test
Feb 01, 2021 (SPX)
While the first hot fire test marked a major milestone for the program with the firing of all four RS-25 engines together for the first time for about a minute,...
Iran launches new satellite-carrying rocket
Feb 01, 2021 (AFP)
The test was "the first launch of the Zoljanah hybrid satellite carrier for sub-orbital testing", said Ahmad Hosseini, the spokesman for the ministry's space di...
NASA, SpaceX to launch second Commercial Crew Rotation Mission to ISS
Feb 01, 2021 (SPX)
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 mission will launch four astronauts aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to the space station. It will be the first mission...
Milestone for Europe's new launcher
Feb 01, 2021 (SPX)
"With the departure of the first upper stage from the factory in Bremen, we have initiated the countdown to the first launch of Ariane 6. The upper stage is the...
SpaceX violated test license terms last year prompting FAA probe
Feb 01, 2021 (Sputnik)
Last year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk's SpaceX, after the company's high-altitude launch of the St...
Rocket Lab demonstrates new orbital maneuvering capability
Jan 28, 2021 (SPX)
On January 20, 2021, Rocket Lab successfully launched a communications satellite for European space technology company, OHB Group, deploying the 50 kg class GMS...
Virgin Orbit to launch first satellite for Dutch Ministry Of Defense
Jan 27, 2021 (SPX)
Designed and integrated by ISIS, BRIK-II will serve as a testbed for various communications experiments and demonstrate how nanosatellites can provide a meaning...
China's first liquid/solid fueld rocket to make 2021 maiden flight
Jan 27, 2021 (XNA)
Long March-6A, a new generation medium-launch vehicle, can be powered by different numbers of liquid and solid engines to achieve different carrying capacity le...
New tech spurs spaceplane vision: halfway around world in 40 minutes
Jan 26, 2021 (UPI)
The company emerged from secrecy in an announcement last week that said a former Boeing official who oversaw that company's X-33 spaceplane program, Livingston ...
NASA Marshall, SpaceX team celebrates engines of success
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
NASA manager Steve Gaddis and his team were also listening, anticipating the musical sound of success. At 7:27 p.m. EST on Nov. 15, 2020, they heard it. SpaceX ...
Iodine thruster could slow space junk accumulation
Jan 26, 2021 (ESA)
The small but potentially disruptive innovation could help to clear the skies of space junk, by enabling tiny satellites to self-destruct cheaply and easily at ...
Hot Fire met many objectives, test assessment underway
Jan 26, 2021 (SPX)
The preliminary assessment indicates that the data acquired met the goals for a number of the 23 objectives, such as those related to activities prior to engine...
SpaceX rocket deploys record-setting cargo
Jan 24, 2021 (AFP)
The rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:00 am (1500 GMT), 24 hours after its initial take-off had been scrubbed due to bad weather. ...
SpaceX ISS freighter splashes down off Florida
Jan 24, 2021 (UPI)
The capsule's four main parachutes were deployed shortly after 4 p.m. EST, and splashdown was confirmed two minutes later, the company said. The freighter deliv...
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