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Musk says SpaceX will make a formal satellite announcement soon
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to announce out-of-this-world plans for his aerospace company. Last night, Musk tweeter the following about plans for SpaceX: SpaceX is still in...
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These new SpaceX satellites could let you surf the web
Elon Musk's SpaceX is planning a new network of satellites, and they'll come with an interesting function: an Internet connection. According to an application filed with the FCC last week and first...
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SpaceX Poised to Win First U.S. Military Mission
Last year, space cargo company SpaceX sued the U.S. government in federal court for the right to bid on military satellite launches. Now the company is poised to win its first contract for a military...
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SpaceX Will Attempt to Land Its Most Powerful Rocket Tonight
After being grounded for six months, Elon Musk's SpaceX is poised for a dramatic return tonight, launching--and hoping to land--its most powerful rocket yet, at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Slated for...
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What it Means to Live in the Era of Reusable Rockets
Last night, Elon Musk's SpaceX notched a dramatic first for both the company and for spaceflight. After launching a 14-story Falcon 9 rocket and 11 communications satellites into orbital space, SpaceX...
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Traders’ New Edge: Satellite Data
Not far from the government laboratory in New Mexico best known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb, a startup is applying the same lab's supercomputing technique toward a different goal: predicting...
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Watch: SpaceX Rocket Lands, Breaks a Leg, and Explodes
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully placed an ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit on Sunday, but its attempted landing of the first rocket stage on a floating barge in the Pacific didn't go quite...
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SpaceX’s Big Plan To Launch Rockets Every Few Weeks
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long talked about launching payloads into orbit as often as once per week. Now, that dream may be slowly becoming a reality. SpaceX executives have indicated that the company,...
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Dinosaurs of the Space Age Take on Elon Musk
The $250 billion space industry is facing a challenge that could have been lifted right from the pages of Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen’s seminal book on disruption, The...
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SpaceX Undercuts ULA to Win Rocket Launch Contract With U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force will save 40% by buying a GPS satellite launch from Elon Musk’s SpaceX compared with what United Launch Alliance has been charging, the head of the Space and Missile Systems Center...
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Repairs Will Ground ULA Atlas 5 Rocket Until Summer
United Launch Alliance’s workhorse Atlas 5 rocket will remain grounded until this summer while engineers fix a problem that triggered an early engine shutdown during its last flight, the space venture...
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India Ramps Up Competition with Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Billionaires like SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos aren’t the only ones attempting to reinvent spaceflight. India’s space agency is blasting ahead in the race to provide cheap...
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The World’s Biggest Plane Is Getting Ready to Take Off
A space launch company bankrolled by Microsoft msft co-founder Paul Allen intends to compete with space entrepreneurs and industry stalwarts by launching satellites into orbit from the world’s biggest...
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What the World’s First Quantum Satellite Launch Means
China blasted the world’s first quantum communications satellite into orbit from the Gobi Desert early Tuesday. The project signals the dawn of a potentially game-changing communications technology:...
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Satellite Owner Says SpaceX Owes it $50 Million or a Free Flight
Israel’s Space Communication said on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk’s SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed last week by an explosion at...
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Inside One Company’s Stalled Attempt to Blanket the World with Internet...
Iridium Communications, a $790 million satellite telecommunications company based in McLean, Va., was gearing up to launch the first of a new generation of satellites when the news came in from Cape...
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U.S. Weather Satellite That is ‘a Quantum Leap’ Poised for Launch
A U.S. weather satellite that will “revolutionize” forecasting was scheduled for launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Saturday, promising to deliver continuous high-definition views of hurricanes...
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SpaceX May Return to Flight by Mid-December
Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX hopes to return its Falcon 9 rocket to flight on Dec. 16, said Iridium Communications, which plans to have 10 of its satellites on board for launching. The launch is...
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Japan’s SoftBank Invests $1 Billion in Satellite Startup OneWeb
SoftBank Group has agreed to invest $1 billion in OneWeb Ltd, which is building a constellation of satellites to improve global broadband access, the Japanese Internet conglomerate and the U.S. startup...
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IBM Brain Trust Predicts That ‘Superhero Vision’ Is On Its Way
For the last decade, IBM has asked its brain trust of scientists and researchers to pick the five hottest of the hot technologies on the cusp of broad adoption. And 2017 is no different. This year’s 5...
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