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The purchase is part of a plan to send two Saudi astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA Saudi Arabia plans to send its first female astronaut into space, Axiom confirmed to Insider. The country bought two seats on a SpaceX ship as part of a plan to send Saudi astronauts to the ISS. The […]
Rocket startup Firefly Aerospace will attempt to reach orbit for the first time in a launch tonight, Sunday, September 11. This will be the second attempt at launching its Alpha rocket, after a previous attempt around this time last year came to a dramatic end. Firefly will be hoping for a better outcome this time […]
Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images Japan’s yen has gone into orbit on Thursday, breaking through key technical support levels as rising global growth risks nudged investors into a rush to safe haven-assets. Apple cut its sales forecast for its latest quarter, citing slowing iPhone sales in China, while Chinese manufacturing reads added to the burden […]
China is set to become the first nation to explore the far side of the moon, after Chang’e-4 lunar probe entered a planned orbit, ahead of its much-anticipated landing on the unexplored part of Earth’s satellite. “The probe has entered an elliptical lunar orbit, with the perilune [closest point] at about 15 km and the […]
Ahead of Monday’s launch to the International Space Station, cosmonauts told the media which superpower would have helped them in space, and what they might do in their own back yard with their new knowledge of the Soyuz rocket. Russian cosmonaut and Soyuz MC-11 commander Oleg Kononenko said an ability to shift between human and […]
A video shows a Soyuz-2-1b rocket successfully blasting off into space from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwest Russia as it delivered a navigation satellite into orbit. The launch was conducted on Saturday night. The rocket was equipped with upper stage Fregat, which propelled a GLONASS-M satellite into orbit. The satellite is part of Russian national […]
A big question mark hanging over the auto industry concerns the rate of electric vehicle adoption, but BMW — unlike some of its rivals — isn’t prone to wild predictions about the public’s enthusiasm for clean, green EVs. Despite rolling out a global plan earlier this year for 25 plug-in hybrid or electric vehicles by […]
The TESS satellite will hitch a ride atop a Falcon 9 rocket to search out new worlds. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ad123cdc7a9b006c0d5d486/master/pass/falcon9.jpg
Enlarge / The Stratolaunch aircraft has a wingspan of 117 meters. (credit: Stratolaunch Systems Corp.) As Stratolaunch Systems Corp. has rolled its super-massive aircraft out of the hangar during the last year and performed some ground-based tests, there has been one big unanswered question—what is the purpose of building the largest airplane in the world? […]
SpaceX/YouTube SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is scheduled to launch from Cape Kennedy Spaceport in Florida this afternoon. Instead of carrying steel or concrete to test the rocket’s capabilities, it’s going to carry a Tesla Roadster, helmed by a dummy named “Starman.” The Roadster is equipped with three cameras, so Musk said it should provide some “epic views” — […]
