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Rocket Lab may try to launch its Electron rocket for the first time this weekend

Posted in Hardware on 20th May, 2017
by Alex Muller

Electron could become a powerful system for putting small satellites into space for cheap.

Inmarsat rides SpaceX Falcon into orbit, booster falls into Atlantic

Posted in Hardware on 16th May, 2017
by Alex Muller

Inmarsat, the UK's biggest space company, has boosted its global broadband network with the launch of a fourth high-frequency satellite.

SpaceX is building the worlds most powerful rocket, and it is nearly ready to fly

Posted in Science on 11th May, 2017
by Alex Muller

A rocket bigger than anything else currently in operation, only outstripped by the moon rockets of the Apollo program.

SpaceX set for a second booster relaunch in June

Posted in Business on 8th May, 2017
by Alex Muller

SpaceXs second re-launch of a previously used Falcon 9 rocket booster is targeted for next month, for a mission launching a Bulgarian communications satellite.

SpaceX has tenth successful rocket stage landing and first military mission

Posted in Business on 2nd May, 2017
by Alex Muller

SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on solid ground again.