SpaceX

SpaceX planning a Falcon 9 rocket booster landing in California for the first time

This would be the first time ever that a Falcon 9 rocket will land on a new onshore recovery pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Jul 9, 2018

Thailand cave rescue: Elon Musk team working on escape pod design

The Tesla founder tweeted on Saturday that teams at SpaceX and The Boring Company are working on solutions to help rescue the boys trapped in Tham Luang cave.

Jul 7, 2018

SpaceX Falcon Heavy gets USAF approval, first launch order for 2020

September 2020 will see SpaceX launch a massive military satellite using the Falcon Heavy- the first government project comes after just one test flight.

Jun 22, 2018

Free money to everyone (UBI) will become necessity if robots snatch away all human jobs: Elon Musk

Universal basic income (UBI) is essentially a cash handout that a state or region distributes among its people; irrespective of their employment status

Jun 19, 2018

Elon Musk-owned The Boring Company to bring high-speed transit tunnels to Chicago

The SpaceX owner's infrastructure and tunnel construction firm, The Boring Company gets the green signal to operate a high-speed underground transportation system from O'Hare airport to downtown Chicago.

Jun 15, 2018

SpaceX wants to build new facility in Florida to support over 60 rocket launches per year

SpaceX has asked for a 67-acre land to help facilitate their ambitious launch plans of approximately 64 launches per year.

Jun 10, 2018

After NASA, now SpaceX delays manned moon mission fearing extraterrestrial aliens, say conspiracy theorists

As SpaceX has delayed its moon mission, with NASA dragging its feet for more than 3 decades, conspiracy theorists have started alleging that the mission has been delayed due to the alleged alien presence in lunar surface

Jun 10, 2018

SpaceX launches NASA's twin GRACE-FO satellites to track Earth's ice, gravity and water

SpaceX used the same Falcon 9 they used to launch the Zuma payload for the USAF last year. While the team did not attempt to land the core stage, they did try to catch the fairing. But Mr.Steven, the giant net aboard a ship, was unable to stick.

May 23, 2018

NASA's budget kicks out human exploration of Mars, focus stays on Moon

NASA's current budget is unlikely to support the burden of Mars missions. With the space agency focusing on the Moon, it might be up to Elon Musk to finally take people to the red planet and start a colony there.

Apr 27, 2018

SpaceX launches NASA's TESS to hunt for alien worlds and habitable planets

TESS will look for exoplanets for the next two years, covering 85 percent of the sky and filtering out planets between 30 and 300 light years away.

Apr 19, 2018

Elon Musk could earn more than $50 billion from Tesla pay package

Tesla co-founder Elon Musk will net $50 billion if he meets several key performance milestones over the next decade, according to a filing published by the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 21.

Mar 22, 2018

AI a bigger threat to civilization than nuclear weapons, says Elon Musk

The technology entrepreneur questioned why no public body had been set up to oversee research into AI.

Mar 12, 2018

Elon Musk says Mars spaceship test flights could happen in 2019

The announcement comes a little over a month after SpaceX successfully tested its most powerful reusable rocket, the Falcon Heavy.

Mar 12, 2018

Chinas Tiangong-1 space station to crash land into Earth

Chinas first manned space station Tiangong-1 may crash land into the Earth. After launching in 2011, contact was lost with the module and a controlled re-entry is no longer possible. 

Mar 8, 2018

SpaceX launches largest satellite on Falcon 9s 50th flight

SpaceX launches a satellite as big as a bus using Falcon 9, the rocket that marks its 50th flight milestone.

Mar 7, 2018

SpaceX's 50th Falcon 9 launch carried its largest payload – a satellite the size of a bus to orbit

This is the 50th Falcon 9 launch from SpaceX.

Mar 6, 2018

Is that a UFO or satellite? Mysterious shining object over northern Norway leaves people baffled

The spectacular luminous UFO was spotted by spectators while they had assembled around a fire to watch the Northern lights.

Feb 24, 2018

SpaceX's Tesla Roadster could crash with Earth, experts reveal

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space could crash into earth, a team led by Canadian astrophysicist Hanno Rein from the University of Toronto Scarborough has predicted.

Feb 16, 2018

Was the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch a hoax? A flat-earther says so

Flat-earther Justin Harvey says 1 percent of the world's top-class people exert control by keeping the real shape of Earth a secret.

Feb 12, 2018

More delays likely for Tesla Model 3

Tesla's first mass-market car, the Model 3 sedan, is now expected to be delivered by early 2019.

Feb 8, 2018