The Pentagon is collaborating with Elon Musk’s company SpaceX to investigate the possibility of using the company’s rockets to drop troops and equipment into global flashpoints. The military’s work with the private space company covers a wide array of research initiatives, according to a partially redacted research agreement, originally obtained by The Intercept via a…
Pentagon Wants Elon Musk to Drop Soldiers Into Conflict From Space
June 22, 2022
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NASA Fuels Moon Rocket for 1st Time in Rehearsal
NASA fueled its huge moon rocket for the first time Monday and went ahead with a critical countdown test despite a fuel line leak. This was NASA’s fourth crack at the all-important dress rehearsal, the last major milestone before the moon rocket’s long-awaited launch debut. The previous attempts in April were thwarted by a fuel…
SpaceX Rocket Launches With Globalstar Satellite
Elon Musk’s SpaceX corporation launched a new satellite—Globalstar FM15—in the early hours of Sunday from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Like other SpaceX ventures, the launch vehicle supporting the mission—Falcon 9—returned to Earth shortly after launch, successfully landing on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, which is stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Globalstar FM15 is now…
SpaceX Launches New Batch of Starlink Satellites
SpaceX launched a new batch of 53 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Friday—the first of three planned launches in three days for the company. The satellites were deployed to low-earth orbit after being carried on the company’s two-stage Falcon 9 rocket for its record 13th launch. After stage separation, the rocket’s first stage returned…
NASA Inducts 3 Veteran Astronauts Into Hall of Fame
NASA inducted three veteran astronauts into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame at a ceremony Saturday at the Kennedy Space Cpmplex in Cape Canaveral. The prestigious award went to astronauts David Leestma, Sandra Magnus and Chris Ferguson “for their outstanding accomplishments in furthering NASA’s mission of exploration and discovery,” the space agency said. Their induction…
SpaceX Plans Weekend Launches From California, Florida
June 16, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is planning three flights this weekend from California and Florida. The first flight is set to launch shortly after noon on June 17 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket will deploy 53 more Starlink internet satellites. The second flight will follow the next day…
Elon Musk’s Starship Must Take Over 75 Environmental Actions Before Its Granted Permission to Launch: FAA
June 13, 2022
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A U.S. federal agency announced on Monday that it would require SpaceX to take 75 environmental actions before permitting its Starship-Super Heavy program to launch. The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will require SpaceX to take actions like monitoring plants and wildlife for launch impacts, removing launch debris from sensitive habitats in the surrounding Texas…
European Star Survey Reveals Celestial Treasure Trove
BERLIN—The European Space Agency released a trove of data Monday on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia space observatory in an effort to create the most accurate and complete map of our galaxy. Astronomers hope to use the data to understand better how stars are born and die, and…
US-China Space Competition Heats Up
June 13, 2022
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News Analysis In the ever-expanding arms race between communist China and the United States, few domains of competition are as high stakes as that of space. Satellite architecture is required for everything from GPS to bank transactions to missile defense systems. As such, it is no surprise that both nations are investing heavily in their…
US-China Battle for Space Supremacy Heats Up
June 13, 2022
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News Analysis In the ever-expanding arms race between communist China and the United States, few domains of competition are as high stakes as that of space. Satellite architecture is required for everything from GPS to bank transactions to missile defense systems. As such, it is no surprise that both nations are investing heavily in their…
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