NASA recently decided to hand a US$2.9 billion HLS (Human Landing System) contract to SpaceX in order to build the vehicle to land astronauts to moon. The founder of Blue Origin, billionaire Jeff Bezo, who is also the founder of Amazon,com, is not happy with the decision. Blue Origin disputes that the HLS program was originally set to have at ...
SpaceX Starship prototype, SN11, blew up during a high-altitude test launch on 30 March in Texas. The weather condition was foggy during the test, the prototype faced similar fate with the 3 previous attempts – SN8, SN9, and SN10. After reaching its testing height at roughly 10km, the engines cut off in sequence to begin an unpowered descent. Unfortunately, the ...
The Indonesian government has offered Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, to build a rocket launch site on the island of Biak in December 2020. Residents from the small island told Elon Musk that his company is not welcome on their island on Tuesday. Biak is a beautiful island located in Cenderawasih Bay near the northern coast of Papua, one of ...
Tesla & SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk recently shared a rare group photo taken with his girlfriend, Grimes and his son, X Æ A-Xii. The photo was shared in his official Twitter account, in a new city in Texas. He put a caption of “Starbase, Texas” for photo on Twitter. Starbase is “city” where Musk was trying to form around SpaceX’s ...
SpaceX’s prototype, Starship SN10, successfully launched and landed, but then exploded after landing in Texas on Wednesday. The spacecraft appeared to be tilted quite a bit after landing and ended in a fiery fireball several minutes after. This is the third time SpaceX faces the similar fate after several tests of reusable and heavy-load spacecraft. Previously the SN8 & SN9 ...
SpaceX’s prototype Starship SN9, carrying the company’s hope to travel to Mars, crashed in an explosion again today. The Starship exploded during an upright landing attempt minutes after lift-off. This was the second explosion after the previous prototype failed and faced a similar fate in December 2020. Elon Musk, the company’s founder, was surprisingly quiet on social media He tweeted ...