SpaceX Rocket Explodes upon Landing: What Went Wrong?Though private aerospace company SpaceX successfully launched anocean-monitoring satellite from...Shekhtman, Lonnie
Last summer, theIndian space agency ISRO launched a new type of rocket, the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle or SSLV. While the rocket launched as planned, it wasn’t able to deploy the satellites it carried into orbit correctly and all of the payloads were lost. Now, the ISRO has announce...
The inaugural flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner went awry Friday morning when the spacecraft failed to achieve its correct orbit, cancelling its planned trip to the International Space Station. Not only was this the first test flight of Boeing’s ship, but it was a major step in NASA'...
SpaceX has launched five test flights of the skyscraping rocket and spacecraft. Though the first three ended prematurely in explosions, the fourth, in June, ended without anything blowing up, and the fifth, in October, even succeeded in returning the colossal booster to the launch pad, a cru...
SpaceX assembles the world's largest rocket for Starship Flight 7 test launch (photos) 2 Devastation of raging Los Angeles fires visible from space in satellite images 3 NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab still 'untouched' by raging LA fires 4 The Full Wolf Moon 'eats' Mars on Jan. 13. Here's...
Challenger's STS-51L mission was the first shuttle liftoff scheduled for Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. After several technical and weather-related delays, Challenger launched at 11:38 a.m. EST on Jan. 28, 1986. What went wrong? Analysis later showed...
Happy to see competition, but I don't see how anyone can beat SpaceX, with brilliant engineers and their own rockets which are the lowest cost in the industry. If Starship is successful it's game-over for lowest cost space launch. Similar to Tesla, where no one can match their ...
craft “Resilience” in honor of the NASA and SpaceX teams that worked through a pandemic to get their mission off the ground as well as the global public, which grappled with Covid-19 as well as a widespread reckoning over racial injustices in the months prior to the Crew-1 launch....
For years, it seemed MDMA-assisted therapy would revolutionise PTSD treatment. But poor trial design and alleged misconduct ultimately stopped the treatment from receiving government approval
The billionaire entrepreneur added that the company began building "a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount" three months ago. This plate wasn't ready in time for yesterday's launch, but SpaceX went ahead with the mission anyway, Musk said, figuring that the concret...