SpaceX

California wants to tax spaceflight, based on distance

Florida is widely seen as the state of choice for spaceflight in the USA, but California also plays host to its fair share of…

SpaceX says it will send two private tourists around moon

Elon Musk announced yesterday that SpaceX will be flying two unnamed private citizens on a trip around the moon next year. The citizens have…

Watch: SpaceX returns to space with Iridium-1 launch

SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket, several months after one of its rockets exploded on the launchpad. The rocket was carrying ten communication…

SpaceX set for return to launch on Sunday?

SpaceX has been hard at work following the explosion of one of its rockets on the launchpad late last year. Now, the company has…

SpaceX set for December return to launchpad?

SpaceX has made a lot of progress in identifying the cause behind a Falcon 9 launchpad explosion earlier this year. Now, the company thinks…

Falcon 9 explosion: has SpaceX found cause?

The explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket on a launchpad earlier this year has resulted in SpaceX coming under increased scrutiny. However, the company has…

SpaceX reveals interplanetary rocket, spaceship

SpaceX has revealed what it calls an interplanetary rocket and spaceship which will take astronauts to Mars. The so-called Mars Vehicle will be the…

SpaceX is getting pretty good at this rocket landing thing

Private space firm SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday, delivering a commercial satellite to geostationary transfer orbit. But, as usual, it was the company’s Earth-based…

Twitter lauds SpaceX after historic landing

After several agonising failures, SpaceX finally managed to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a ship. The company achieved the…

Falcon 9 successfully makes a vertical landing

The SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully made a vertical landing at Capt Canaveral, Florida on Monday. The craft made its return 10 minutes after launch….

Elon Musk’s SpaceX finally launches DSCOVR satellite into deep orbit

Scanning through Elon Musk’s Twitter feed seems like something out of Interstellar‘s transcript with Matthew Mcconaughey rocketing through space, giving status updates as he…

Google invests $1 billion in SpaceX as 21st century Space Race heats up

Solar-powered drones, laser beams, internet satellites and a city on mars. These all might sound like something from a Star Wars movie, but they’re…

Watch live as SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket and tries to land it on a ocean platform [Update]

Elon Musk’s Space X is scheduled to launch its Falcon 9 rocket today. This is a risky test flight that has 50% chance of…

Elon Musk wants to bring ‘low cost internet’ satellites to the world

Elon Musk never ceases to surprise. Even when the tech billionaire entrepreneur is up to something surprising it’s still in apt character. From building…

Space X Dragon to return to earth today

Attention, earthlings: the Space X Dragon capsule is on its way home. Well, if by ‘way’ you mean hurtling through the atmosphere and ‘home’…

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft captured successfully by ISS

History has just been made. Space X‘s Dragon Capsule has docked successfully with the International Space Station. It is the first privately built spacecraft…

SpaceX launches into history

Things didn’t go quite to plan for SpaceX’s first launch attempt late last week. Technical difficulties saw it having to be aborted in the…

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