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11:50pm, 2nd August, 2019

Jeff Bezos touts a full-power firing of Blue Origin’s next-generation BE-4 rocket engine

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is showing off a picture of his Blue Origin space venture’s BE-4 rocket engine going full blast during a hot-fire test in Texas. “BE-4 continues to rack up time on the test stand,” Bezos said in an accompanied by a pictu...

10:52pm, 11th May, 2019

Space

Elon Musk reveals how to stuff 60 Starlink satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon rocket

We now know how many of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband data satellites, developed in Redmond, Wash., can be crammed into the nose cone of a Falcon rocket. The answer to the ultimate question is 60. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed how five dozen satellites f...

5:15pm, 6th May, 2019

Space

Spaceflight strikes a deal to put rideshare satellites on Relativity Space’s rocket

An artist’s conception shows Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket lifting off from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. (Relativity Space Illustration) Seattle-based has signed a launch services agreement to put payloads on Relativity...

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches 3 U.S. military satellites from New Zealand

1:49am, 5th May, 2019

Space

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches 3 U.S. military satellites from New Zealand

Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle lifts off from its New Zealand pad. (Rocket Lab via YouTube) sent a trio of research satellites for the U.S. military into orbit tonight from a launch pad that’s thousands of miles from America’s shores, in New Z...

Blue Origin strikes a deal with NASA to use a historic rocket test stand in Alabama

12:54am, 18th April, 2019

Space

Blue Origin strikes a deal with NASA to use a historic rocket test stand in Alabama

A 1965 photo shows a Saturn V first-stage rocket engine being test-fired at Marshall Space Flight Center’s Test Stand 4670 in Alabama. Blue Origin has struck a deal with NASA to refurbish and use the facility, which has been inactive since 1998. (NAS...

5:27pm, 17th April, 2019

Space

Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship to the space station

Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket lifts off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, sending a robotic Cygnus cargo capsule into orbit. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) Almost four tons of supplies, hardware and are heading to the International Sp...

12:05am, 12th April, 2019

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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches its first commercial payload — then aces a triple landing

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida. (SpaceX via YouTube) More than a year after SpaceX , the second Falcon Heavy put a satellite in orbit today for its first customer. Then, for the first...

11:02pm, 11th April, 2019

Space

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches its first commercial payload, then aces a triple landing

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida. (SpaceX via YouTube) More than a year after SpaceX , the second Falcon Heavy put a satellite in orbit today for its first customer. Then, for the first...

6:46pm, 11th April, 2019

Space

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches Arabsat-6A as its first commercial payload

The Falcon Heavy central core booster lands on a drone ship stationed hundreds of miles out in the Atlantic Ocean. (Via SpaceX live stream) More than a year after SpaceX sent its Falcon Heavy rocket on a majestic test launch, the second Falcon Heavy...

10:15pm, 3rd April, 2019

Space

SpaceX’s Starhopper takes its first rocket hop, marking another step toward Mars

After weeks of preparation, the prototype test vehicle for SpaceX’s monster spaceship, known as Starhopper, fired up its methane-powered Raptor rocket engine for the first time today and lifted ever so slightly off its Texas launch pad. “Starhopper c...

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Jeff Bezos touts a full-power firing of Blue Origin’s next-generation BE-4 rocket engine

Elon Musk reveals how to stuff 60 Starlink satellites on SpaceX’s Falcon rocket

Spaceflight strikes a deal to put rideshare satellites on Relativity Space’s rocket

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launches 3 U.S. military satellites from New Zealand

Blue Origin strikes a deal with NASA to use a historic rocket test stand in Alabama

Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket sends Cygnus cargo ship to the space station

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches its first commercial payload — then aces a triple landing

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches its first commercial payload, then aces a triple landing

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launches Arabsat-6A as its first commercial payload

SpaceX’s Starhopper takes its first rocket hop, marking another step toward Mars

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