WASHINGTON — SpaceX is seeing strong demand for its dedicated smallsat rideshare missions, a program that is putting pricing pressure on small launch vehicle developers. During a panel discussion at the 2021 SmallSat Symposium Feb. 9, a SpaceX official said the company has two more dedicated rideshare missions scheduled this […]
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SAN FRANCISCO – With 81 miniature satellites in orbit, internet-of-things startup Swarm announced the start of its commercial data service. “Swarm is now live commercially,” Ben Longmier, Swarm co-founder and chief technology officer, told SpaceNews. “We have a bunch of commercial customers on the network. They’re putting our satellite data […]
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) – Freed from his daily obligations at Amazon.com Inc, Jeff Bezos is expected to turn up the heat on his space venture, Blue Origin, as it faces a pivotal year and fierce competition from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, industry sources said. The 57-year-old Bezos, a […]
Super Bowl commercial for the first-all civilian space flight invites the public to join billionaire’s Inspiration4 mission that will launch four people on a SpaceX rocket Inspiration4 is the first all-civilian space flight that is planned for late this year It is introducing itself during the Super Bowl with a […]
WASHINGTON — SpaceX won a NASA contract Feb. 4 to launch a small astrophysics spacecraft, continuing the company’s string of similar agency contracts over the last two years. NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX for the launch of the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and […]
On February 2, SpaceX finally tested its Starship prototype, the SN9, after weeks of delays. The rocket successfully shot to an altitude of 10 kilometres, but the descent of the rocket did not pan out as Mr Musk and co had anticipated. As SN9 approached the landing pad, one of […]
The year 2021 will bring an exciting series of Mars landings, rocket launches, astronaut flights, and more. NASA; JPL-Caltech; Boeing; SpaceX In 2020, SpaceX became the first private company to launch humans into orbit, Japan brought asteroid samples to Earth, and China’s landed a spacecraft on the moon. But 2021 […]
WASHINGTON — SpaceX successfully launched another set of Starlink satellites Feb. 4 in the first of back-to-back Falcon 9 launches scheduled from Cape Canaveral. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 1:19 a.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Its payload of 60 Starlink […]