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Japan has set a new spaceflight record — and unlike most of these feats, it’s defined by what wasn’t involved. The country’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched the smallest-ever rocket to carry a satellite into orbit, a modest SS-520 sounding rocket modified with a third stage inside its nose cone to get its […]
Flat-Earther ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes intends to finally launch himself into orbit in a homemade rocket on Saturday – right over the Route 66 ghost town of Amboy, California. An earlier attempt to launch the steam-powered rocket was thwarted at the last minute by a US federal agency, saying Hughes had no permission to use public […]
The fate of Arianespace’s latest launch was in limbo for over an hour after the company detected an anomaly. Ariane 5 lost contact with its ground controllers around nine minutes after liftoff, and Arianespace chief Stephane Israel had to issue an apology with the promise to get to the bottom of what happened. Thankfully, things […]
Rocket Lab has reached orbit for the first time, even though it’s only the private space company’s second flight. Even more impressive? The test mission, dubbed “Still Testing,” had three customer satellites in tow: one is an Earth-imaging satellite, while the other two will track weather and boats. By successfully sending those satellites to orbit, […]
The launch company Rocket Lab sent three small satellites to orbit during a test flight from New Zealand. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a2847555a2d9a4a532ba991/master/pass/rocket-fa.jpg
Elon Musk/SpaceX via Instagram Elon Musk said on December 1 that he’d launch his old red Tesla Roadster toward Mars. While Musk said he was serious, doubts have lingered. But on Friday, Musk posted a photo to Instagram of the Tesla inside a rocket nosecone. The rocket is SpaceX’s brand-new Falcon Heavy launcher, scheduled to […]
Today, space company Virgin Orbit announced that it’s secured its first launch contract from the Department of Defense. According to TechCrunch, the payload is scheduled to fly in January 2019, though it’s possible that it could launch earlier, in late 2018. The DoD will be launching payloads from the US Air Force’s Space Test Program, […]
November 3 marks the 60th anniversary of Soviet space-dog Laika blasting off in Sputnik 2 to become the first Earth-born creature to orbit our planet. Though it goes without saying Laika wasn’t aware of her self-sacrifice for the greater cause of human space exploration, she became a global phenomenon. “Laika’s portrait was published on the […]
Pro-Trump media personalities and websites are worried they may be losing a dear reader: President Trump. New White House chief of staff John Kelly is limiting the flow of information to Trump’s desk, including holding out articles from far right and anti-establishment sources, BuzzFeed News has confirmed. “I’m scared that the military complex is taking […]
Shawn Brackbill/Courtesy of the artist It has been a great 12 months for space music, but to our ears much of this burgeoning scene doesn’t quite sound spacey. The Sufjan Stevens-led Planetarium is a modern Holst-ian work, more at home in the concert hall than the Milky Way (and we’d take Gustav’s “Mars” over Sufjan’s). Ennio Morricone’s newly reissued SPACE: 1999 is […]
