First, let’s look at what it means to take things to space for people, for money. Falcon 9 In 2008, with a successful orbital launch achieved and a slew of new customers eager to sign up for SpaceX’s weirdly cheap space delivery service, it was time for SpaceX to take off the ...
So, SpaceX's launch — as regular as it appeared — is important because it will help Iridium better track devices all over the Earth. As NEXT becomes more powerful, this will generate all sorts of tracking information to benefit customers. For example, tracking shipping containers will increas...
T+2:30.Sometime around here, the first stage separates and begins its descent back down to Earth while the second stage engine fires up so it can take the payload up to orbit. This is another moment when things can go wrong, and SpaceX will exhale a little more if/when this happens...
Unless you live under a rock (where exactly are these rocks, anyhow?), you’ve heard the news that SpaceX completed the 4th successful first stage landing of its Falcon 9 rocket after launching to a very high orbit. This was the third one in a row to land on an oceangoing droneship,...
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So why does it seem like our current efforts, as embodied by NASA's Artemis program, are so slow, halting and complex? There isn't one easy answer, but it comes down to money, politics and priorities. Let's start with the money. Yes, the Apollo missions were enormously successful —...
In the 1960s, humans set out to discover what the red planet has to teach us. Now, NASA is hoping to land the first humans on Mars by the 2030s.
different fromthat taken by his fellow space-savvy billionaire, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, but the ultra-long-term goal isn’t all that dissimilar. Both men are looking ahead to a time when humanity is a multiplanetary species, and they’re both willing to spend their fortunes to make it so...
The successful mission was a triumph, not just for the United States, but for mankind. What many people don't know, however, are the special sacrifices that had to be made in order to get human astronauts up into space at all. The major unsung heroes of space exploration, it turns out...
SpaceX is building. It's cost $5 billion so far and is arguably nearing the same point as Artemis' SLS, if it's not further along. The SLS has costsomething like $23 billionso far. To be clear, Starship also hasn't yet made it to space, so it's story is still...