Tag: Spacex
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Hadrian Raises $36 Million to Make Autonomous Aerospace Factories
Hadrian Automation, a startup developing automated manufacturing plants for the aerospace and defense industries in the Los Angeles area, has raised $36.4 million in new funding, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.Hadrian, which …
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NASA Awards SpaceX Three Crew Flights On Boeing Delays
NASA said on Friday that it is awarding three more, crewed astronaut missions to SpaceX. According to NASA, the addition of those three new crew flights will allow the agency to “maintain an uninterrupted U.S. capability for human access to the space s…
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NASA, SpaceX Launch Asteroid Intercept Mission From Vandenberg
NASA and SpaceX successfully launched a test mission to intercept an astroid last night out of Vandenberg Air Force Base, north of Santa Barbara. The launch–which was visible up and down the California coast around 10:25pm–will test a known asteroid …
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Why SpaceX is Crashing a Craft into an Asteroid (on Purpose)
SpaceX is sending a spacecraft right into an asteroid as part of a test tonight to see if that’s a viable way to dispel asteroids dangerously close to our planet.The mission is called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART for short), and it’s pai…
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Amazon Sets First Kuiper Satellite Launches for 2022 Using ABL’s RS1 Rocket
Amazon plans to launch the first two prototype satellites for its Project Kuiper satellite broadband constellation by late 2022, using rockets currently being developed by ABL Space Systems.The timeline for testing what’s slated to become a 3,236-sate…
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Elon Musk Moves Tesla HQ Out Of California
Billionaire Elon Musk says that one of his tech companies–Tesla, will be moving its headquarters out of California, and to Austin, Texas, making good Musk’s threat to pull out of Silicon Valley. Musk previously made threats to pull his companies out o…
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Rocket Lab Could Become the Space Force’s Favorite Rocket Launcher
Rocket Lab has been building rockets in Long Beach for more than a decade, competing with the likes of SpaceX in a less talked-about area of the space industry: satellite launches. But growing interest in space exploration made CEO Peter Beck rethink …
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With a Billionaire’s Backing, SpaceX Sends Citizen Spacefliers Into Orbit for a Mission Like No Other
A tech billionaire and three other non-professional spacefliers blasted off today to begin the first non-governmental, philanthropic mission carrying a crew to orbit.The founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, Jared Isaacman, is paying what’s thought to b…
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SpaceX Successfully Launches Space Tourism Flight
Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched four, non-professional astronauts to space on Wednesday, the first time a SpaceX capsule has been used to take private citizens to space. The company’s Inspiration4 mission was bankrolled by one of those cit…
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SpaceX’s ‘All-Civilian’ Crew Represents the Dawn of a Second Space Age
Are they space tourists? Citizen spacefliers? All-civilian astronauts? Whatever you call them, the four teammates who are due to go into orbit today in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule require creating a new category.”I know there’s controversy over what …