Space industry

Amazon changes rockets for launch of prototype Kuiper internet satellites, pushing mission to 2023
From left: Artist renderings of the launches of an RS1 rocket and a Vulcan rocket. ABL Space; United Launch Alliance Amazon is swapping rides for the first prototype satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network, the company announced Wednesday, a move that delays launching the pair of spacecraft to early next year. The tech giant […]
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Space tourism pioneer Dennis Tito books private moon trip on SpaceX’s Starship
Dennis Tito, most widely known as being the first space tourist back in mid-2001. Wikipedia Entrepreneur Dennis Tito and his wife Akiko purchased seats on a private trip with SpaceX’s Starship rocket, the third such spaceflight Elon Musk’s venture has announced to date. Tito – 82, and famous for becoming the first private space tourist […]
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NASA aims for mid-November launch of delayed Artemis moon mission
NASA’s next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with its Orion crew capsule perched on top, as it stands on launch pad 39B in preparation for the unmanned Artemis 1 mission at Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 27, 2022. Joe Skipper | Reuters NASA said Wednesday that it is planning to launch its Artemis […]
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Elon Musk denies report that he talked to Putin a short while ago about Ukraine war
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – May well 02: Elon Musk attends The 2022 Satisfied Gala Celebrating “In The usa: An Anthology of Vogue” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Could 02, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Image by Theo Wargo/WireImage) Theo Wargo | Wireimage | Getty Photos SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is […]
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NASA asteroid strike test succeeds in shifting its orbit
A television at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, captures the final images from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) just before it smashes into the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded […]
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Flexjet’s Kenn Ricci breaks down decision to go general public via Horizon Acquisition SPAC
ShareShare Post through FacebookShare Posting through TwitterShare Short article by way of LinkedInShare Short article by means of E-mail Flexjet Chairman Kenn Ricci joins CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to crack down the company’s determination to go public by a merger with a special reason acquisition organization, or SPAC. Source
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Tesla stock experienced its worst week given that Mar. 2020 in the course of a ‘very powerful 7 days’ for Elon Musk
Michael Gonzalez | Getty Photographs Information | Getty Visuals Tesla shares dropped practically 16% in the course of what CEO Elon Musk termed a “quite rigorous 7 days without a doubt” to one of his 108 million followers on Twitter. Tesla shares closed at $265.25 on Friday, Sept. 30. At market’s close just one week […]
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Rocket builder Astra Area will get delisting warning from Nasdaq
A near up seem at Astra’s LV0008 rocket at LC-46 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. John Kraus / Astra Embattled modest rocket-builder Astra exposed Friday that it received a delisting warning from the Nasdaq after its stock spent 30 consecutive times beneath $1 for each share, a violation of the exchange’s specifications. The organization has 180 days […]
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Pentagon awards $200 million spacecraft contract to private venture York
The S-CLASS platform, designed for missions for a wide variety of government and commercial customers. York Space Systems Spacecraft manufacturer York Space Systems won a Pentagon contact worth up to $200 million, announced Thursday, to build experimental satellites for the military’s Space Development Agency (SDA). Known as the T1DES system, York will build and operate […]
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