SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission is set to liftoff Saturday, January 23rd at 9:40 a.m. EST. [credit: Trevor Mahlmann ] As early as Saturday morning, SpaceX will launch the first dedicated mission of a rideshare program it announced in late 2019. As part of this plan, the company sought to bundle dozens of small satellites together for […]
Enlarge / Image of the first AR1 engine built by Aerojet Rocketdyne. (credit: Aerojet Rocketdyne) Welcome to Edition 3.29 of the Rocket Report! What a wild weekend we’re heading toward in the world of rockets and launch, with seemingly too much news to cover: • Electron, Saturday, 07:38 UTC • SLS Hot Fire, Saturday, 22:00 […]
Enlarge / The Sun glints around the lower fin of Starship SN8 on Dec. 9, 2020. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann ) On Wednesday, in South Texas, SpaceX fired up its newest Starship prototype not once or twice. Rather, engineers and technicians fueled and test fired their SN9 prototype and its Raptor rocket engines three times in […]
Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Turksat 5A mission. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX will seek to kick off what promises to be a busy year of launches on Thursday evening, when a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the Turksat 5A communications satellite. The 3.4-ton satellite will be deployed into […]
Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet. A 4.8% rally in the electric carmaker’s share price Thursday boosted Musk past Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 wealthiest people. The South Africa-born engineer’s net worth […]
Expand (charge: Getty Images | aluxum) Even the Federal Communications Commission last week granted $9.2 billion into 180 broadband suppliers, stating the money will deliver Internet access to 5.2 million”unserved” houses and businesses in rural regions across the USA. But consumer advocates say they have found significant issues from the FCC’s financing options, like sending […]
Expand / Starlink satellite dish along with gear in the Idaho panhandle’s Coeur d’Alene National Forest. (charge: Wandering-coder) SpaceX was given $885.51 million from the Federal Communications Commission to offer Starlink broadband into 642,925 rural houses and businesses in 35 countries. The satellite supplier was among the greatest winners at the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunity […]
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Ranked Ken Keiter lately came into possession of a single SpaceX Starlink consumer terminalthe satellite dish which SpaceX filmed”Dishy McFlatface.” But rather than plugging it and receiving Net access in SpaceX’s low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites, Keiter chose to shoot Dishy aside to find out what is inside. The teardown procedure destroyed parts of the gadget. “I’d […]
Things get severe in the 45-minute mark. That’s a relative term, obviously, since there’s nothing unserious about putting a $62 million, also 208-foot-tall rocket onto a launchpad having plans to ship it outside the planet’s atmosphere. NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida teems with technicians running via checklists. Nightfall has gone and come {} the disappearance […]