Washington: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts aboard the Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down recently off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The international crew of four spent around 6 months in orbit. NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and ESA (European […]
Los Angeles: The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and SpaceX launched the agency’s Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft roared off Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Shortly after the lift-off, NASA confirmed the main engine cut-off […]
This day in history we feature Falcon 1. SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer successfully launched Falcon 1 on this day 2008. Trivia – Falcon 1 Falcon 1 was a small-lift launch vehicle that was operated from 2006 to 2009 by SpaceX. It became the first privately-developed fully liquid-fueled launch vehicle to go into orbit around […]
A piece of space junk from Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew-1 craft recently crash-landed on a farmer’s property in Australia after it launched into space in November 2020. The family of farmer Mick Miners were alerted to the arrival of the object after they heard a loud bang coming from a sheep paddock on their property […]
Washington: The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted Elon Musk’s SpaceX approval to use its Starlink satellite internet system on vehicles in motion such as cars, trucks, boats, and aircraft. Along with SpaceX, the FCC has also granted approval to Kepler Communications, paving the way for a new class of user terminals that can […]
FLORIDA: The third long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth early, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida to end months of orbital research ranging from space-grown chillies to robots. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying three U.S. NASA astronauts and a European Space […]
