The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has recently commissioned three private companies, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, to…
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SpaceX, following a series of delays, finally got to test its SN11 Starship prototype out after the last one crashed-and-burned…
SpaceX gets a lot of airtime on Stuff but there’s more than one private space company out there. Blue Origin…
Space has been in the news as of late and while both the UAE and China had missions arrive at…
No-one has visited the Moon since 1972. But with the advent of commercial human spaceflight, the urge to return is resurgent…
Private space company SpaceX is about to do something for the first time. This week the company launches its first human passengers into space, a major test for the Elon Musk-backed outfit and a stepping stone on its route to Mars.
With dreams of Mars on the minds of both NASA and Elon Musk, long-distance crewed missions through space are coming. But you might be surprised to learn that modern rockets don’t go all that much faster than the rockets of the past.
We’re eagerly awaiting the next step in human exploration — which involves putting feet on Mars instead of things with…
Japan uses the smallest rocket possible to launch the Tricom-1R satellite into space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeW-Qqu9-8U The trend of late when it…
On Friday 8 April 2016, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a mission to deliver a spacecraft called Dragon with its…