Today, SpaceX experienced a series of bad luck. Weather stopped a historic crewed mission from launching, and another Falcon 9 rocket crashed upon landing, halting the third planned flight, too.
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SpaceX has released the external view of the first-ever successful splashdown landing of the Super Heavy booster. Images show the landing burn of 13 Raptor engines and a slow touchdown on the water.
SpaceX has finally managed to land a Starship rocket, however, several minutes after, the vehicle exploded due to a fire which managed to reach the propellant which subsequently ignited.
Starship SN8 executed an almost perfect high-altitude flight test before plummeting towards the earth at a velocity greater than the intended threshold. SpaceX and Musk extolled the test as a success.
Moving on from last year's crash while landing, Facebook's Aquila drone has completed its second voyage successfully. Data collected from the flight will help the team further improve the design.
Microsoft will offer Xbox 360 owners a way to check out the "live" streaming video from the scheduled landing of the Mars rover Curiosity on Monday via a special Xbox Live dashboard.
Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon. The competition to send a robot craft to the Moon is being run with the...
Single workstation controls destiny of space probe The control centre is ready and a big Christmas celebration is expected when, or if, the UK's most ambitious scientific project, the Beagle 2 Mars...
Space scientists have chosen two sites on Mars where twin robot vehicles will look for evidence that a warmer, wetter red planet might once have harbored life. Two spacecraft carrying the rovers will be launched...