The first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lands on a robotic ship at sea on April 8, 2016. (Image credit: SpaceX) Editor's note: This story was updated at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) Thursday (May 26) to reflect the launch delay. The private spaceflight company SpaceX hopes to ...
Booster 1062, which took its first flight in November 2020, will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday, April 12, on a mission to deploy 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit. A live webcast of the record-breaking ...
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According to Wentz, if data from Vulcan's first launch comes back nominal, "we would be prepped and ready to proceed right now." He said April is the earliest likely opportunity for Vulcan to fly Cert-2, which will launch the first mission of Sierra Space's Dream Chaser cargo space plan...
On April 29, 2021, the Tianhe core module was launched into space. On the next day, Xie posted a video of the launch. Composed of footage from different camera locations and angles, the video combined elements like a fast highlight reel, crowd reactions, and synced-to-the-beat background...
from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern Hainan province, before sending the satellites into preset orbit. 北京时间2月27日11时06分,我国在文昌航天发射场使用长征八号运载火箭成功将22颗卫星发射升空,送入预定轨道,创造我国一箭多星新纪录。 These satellites will then be released in 12 ...
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has announced its rocket rideshare program schedule in 2023 and 2024. The program will include nine launch opportunities, with the launch windows running from August 2023 to the fourth quarter of 2024. The ...
Dismantling parts of its long-range rocket launch facility was among several steps the North took last year as it entered nuclear talks with the United States and South Korea. North Korea has carried out satellite launches at the site in recent years, resulting in U.N. sanctions over expert ...
April 11, 2011byMike Nathan6 Comments It was only a matter of time before someone would figure out how to weaponize their Kinect. Hacker [Jonas Wagner] was fiddling with his Kinect one day and thought that it would be cool tolaunch missiles simply by gesturing. Not having any real missile...
The company completed its goal of returning the booster back to the launch site and used the "chopstick" arms on the tower to catch the vehicle. The company sees the ambitious catch approach as critical to its goal of making the rocket fully reusable. ...