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The orbiting satellite is almost as big as a city bus. (Photo: AP)

SpaceX racks up 50th launch of Falcon 9 rocket

The latest Falcon took flight from Cape Canavera, successfully hosting a massive communications satellite for Spain’s Hispasat corporation.

07 Mar 2018 8:12 AM

Musk, who also runs the electric car company Tesla, sent his Roadster into a long solar orbit stretching out to Mars.

Spacex 'Starman' at wheel of sports car flying on new rocket

Musk's Starman will cruise around the sun for a billion years.

07 Feb 2018 10:09 AM

A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The Falcon Heavy, has three first-stage boosters, strapped together with 27 engines in all.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched, puts sports car in space

With liftoff, the Heavy became the most powerful rocket in use today, doubling the liftoff punch of its closest competitor.

07 Feb 2018 9:03 AM

The balls were 40kg pieces of the rocket used to hold reaction control system propellant or tank pressure gases. (Photo: Pixabay)

Giant balls of metal are falling from sky in towns across globe, locals baffled

Metal spheres spotted falling from sky in different parts of world have left dozens completely baffled.

02 Feb 2018 8:52 PM

paceX has made four launches and expects to make several more to complete the job by mid-2018.

Rocket lights sky as it carries satellites from California

The launch in the setting sun created a shining, billowing streak that was widely seen throughout Southern California.

25 Dec 2017 1:25 PM

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from newly refurbished Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. The rocket is carrying supplies to the International Space Station. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX recycled rocket soars with recycled capsule

It was NASA’s first use of a reused Falcon rocket and only the second of a previously flown Dragon.

16 Dec 2017 9:40 AM

The 17-meter (56-foot) rocket had three satellites on board for Tuesday's launch, each about the size of a shoebox.

New Zealand space launch aborted from remote launch site

There was no immediate explanation for the launch attempt being called off.

13 Dec 2017 7:39 AM

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a secret US Air Force space plane takes off NASA's Kennedy Space Center (Photo:AFP)

SpaceX launching recycled rocket, supply capsule for NASA

This will be the first launch from Launch Complex 40 since the pad was ruined when a SpaceX rocket crashed during testing in September 2016.

12 Dec 2017 11:50 AM

Falcon Heavy is the followup to SpaceX’s Falcon 9. It’s a more powerful rocket that the company hopes to use for missions to the Moon and Mars.

SpaceX to send a Tesla Roadster into outer space

Musk expects his Roadster to remain in deep space for a billion of years, unless Falcon Heavy blows up on its way to the red planet.

02 Dec 2017 7:48 PM

Self-taught rocket scientist plans to prove that earth is flat

Hughes is a 61-year-old limo driver who’s spent the last few years building a steam-powered rocket out of salvage parts in his garage.

26 Nov 2017 9:35 AM

Self-taught rocket scientist plans to launch over ghost town

First things first — this jump over a ghost town. He will be tinkering with his rocket right up to takeoff.

20 Nov 2017 2:18 PM

Last minute, a plane flew into the restricted airspace at Wallops Island. That prompted NASA's commercial shipper, Orbital ATK, to call off the lift off.

Supply run to space station delayed by stray plane

The Virginia-based company will try to launch its unmanned Antares rocket again with 7,400 pounds of cargo.

12 Nov 2017 8:50 AM

The launch finally went ahead after two delays earlier this week, both in the last 10 seconds before liftoff.

SpaceX launches communication satellite on 3rd try

SpaceX on Wednesday deployed a broadband communications satellite for IntelSat, after twice ditching launch plans.

06 Jul 2017 9:25 AM

The same rocket type had been expected to take China's latest lunar probe to the Moon this year and to return with samples. (representational image)

China's new heavy-lift rocket launch fails in flight

China's launch of a new heavy-lift rocket, carrying what the government said was its heaviest ever satellite, failed on Sunday.

03 Jul 2017 7:59 AM

NASA rocket creates colourful artificial clouds

The NASA Terrier-Improved Malemute sounding rocket was successfully launched from the US space agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia

30 Jun 2017 3:02 PM

The idea is to replace the second stage of the GSLV Mk-III, which now uses a liquid stage, with the semi-cryo. (Photo: PTI)

ISRO to flight-test semi-cryogenic engine by 2021

An eco-friendly alternative, kerosene can be used after storing at a normal temperature.

14 Jun 2017 9:15 AM

Indian envoy confirms rocket hit his house in Kabul

The incident came at the time when Afghanistan is hosting Kabul Process summit amid extremely tight security days.

06 Jun 2017 6:13 PM

According to sources, the rocket landed in the volleyball court of the compound. (Photo: Twitter/Representational)

Rocket lands inside Indian ambassador's house in Kabul, no casualties

The attack coincides with the launch of the Kabul Process meeting this morning.

06 Jun 2017 1:52 PM

India’s largest rocket ever made, to be tested in June

The rocket made by ISRO rocket, is 200 full-grown Asian elephants put together heavy and is going to be tested in the first week of June

28 May 2017 4:55 PM

It was the world's first successful launch from a private site, and was seen as a further advancement in the move towards private enterprise carrying small satellites and other cargo towards the stars.

New Zealand becomes the 11th country to launch into space

The rocket blasted off from the company's facility at Mahia, on the east coast of the North Island.

25 May 2017 4:07 PM

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