SpaceX

SpaceX on track for BFR tests in first half of 2019

Posted in Science on 16th Jul, 2018
by Alex Muller

SpaceX appears to be on track to begin testing the SpaceX Big Falcon Rocket and Big Falcon Spaceship starting in the first half of 2019.

China aims to outstrip NASA with super-powerful rocket

Posted in Science on 2nd Jul, 2018
by Alex Muller

China is working on a super-powerful rocket that would be capable of delivering heavier payloads into low orbit than NASA.

Fully reusable rockets will create the entrepreneurial space age

Posted in Hardware on 1st Jul, 2018
by Alex Muller

The reusable rocket age should have started in the 1980s. However, cost-plus contracts and political bureaucracy split manufacturing of the space shuttle into 50 states.

OneWeb and SpaceX are leading the way to global internet with smallsat constellations

Posted in Business on 30th Jun, 2018
by Alex Muller

SpaceX has two demo satellites in orbit now.

SpaceX will try to use NASA inflatable aeroshell decelerator to enable second stage reuse

Posted in Hardware on 15th Jun, 2018
by Alex Muller

SpaceX will try to bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity using a giant balloon.