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NASA Just Successfully Launched a Spacecraft to an Asteroid

Posted in Science on 9th Sep, 2016
by Alex Muller

The first step in a seven-year journey that will eventually bring us back several spoonfuls worth of dirt from an asteroid.

SpaceX says it can continue launching rockets from two other launch pads

Posted in Hardware on 5th Sep, 2016
by Alex Muller

SpaceX says it can continue launching vehicles from its two other launch sites, one in California and another one in Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral ahead of launch

Posted in Science on 2nd Sep, 2016
by Alex Muller

A rocket operated by the aerospace company SpaceX has exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral where it was being test-fired ahead of a launch.

SES company first to launch satellite on a 'second-hand' SpaceX rocket

Posted in Hardware on 31st Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

Luxembourg-based SES says it is going to be the first commercial satellite operator to launch a spacecraft on a "second-hand" rocket.

SpaceX Dragon home from ISS

Posted in Science on 27th Aug, 2016
by Alex Muller

The mission was SpaceX's ninth of 20 planned under a NASA resupply contract worth up to $3.1 billion.