Simultaneous launches signal growing private interest in lunar exploration, traditionally dominated by governments.
The "rapid unscheduled disassembly" of Elon Musk's Starship sparked chaos as some airspace throughout the Caribbean was closed for an hour and a half.
Elon Musk's rocket manufacturing company SpaceX on Tuesday launched its Falcon 9 rocket with 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.
The seventh test of SpaceX's huge Starship rocket was nothing short of exhilarating, with a fiery explosion and a successful booster catch.
While Jeff Bezos has spent $14 billion to achieve his first space launch, his billionaire rival has built a thriving business, mostly with other people’s money.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites, including 13 with direct to cell capabilities, is set to launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today (Jan. 10) during a 70-minute window that opens at 1:05 p.m. EST (1805 GMT).
Tesla CEO and Amazon founder vie for dominance of satellite launch market and could influence Nasa plans to return to Moon
President Donald Trump made a bold promise to America minutes after taking the Oath of Office: pledging that an American flag would be planted on Mars.
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, waved off an attempt to launch its first orbital rocket. Blue Origin said engineers worked to troubleshoot an issue with the rocket but could not resolve the problem in time.
SpaceX launched 21 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit on Jan. 21 using a Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket's first stage returned successfully, while it
Elon Musk's Space X has launched a rocket carrying two lunar landers, which took off into space this morning (15 January). Blue Ghost and Resilience, built by private companies in the US and Japan, left Earth aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA ’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:11 a.m. ET (6:11 GMT).
In recent years, Space X has been a clear winner in space tech, even managing to catch a booster for the most powerful rocket ever built on a pair of ‘chopsticks’ last year, and stepping in to rescue two astronauts still stranded in space after the Boeing Starliner which carried them there was deemed not safe enough to take them home.