SpaceX and T-Mobile are organizing a joint event. This will happen on Thursday, August 25 at 8 p.m. ET. The two companies said they would announce plans to “increase connectivity” during the event. But they gave no further details. A presentation will be made during the event by “the chief engineer”, in the words of … Read more
The topic of the day. Twenty years ago, Elon Musk set himself a major challenge: that of aerospace conquest. If the beginnings of his private company SpaceX were difficult, this tech boss, who became a multi-billionaire after notably reselling PayPal to EBay, quickly established himself as a key player in space. “SpaceX’s goal is to … Read more
Billionaire Elon Musk’s commercial space company SpaceX (co-founder of Tesla) is dedicated to astronomy and space. It is the first private company to have sent rockets into space, including Falcon 1, Falcon 2, Falcon 3, Falcon 4, Crew Dragon… Moreover, the Crew Dragon is under contract with NASA. Its mission is to supply the International … Read more
Paola Bueno Meteored Brazil 01 Feb 4 mins SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, after being abandoned for 7 years in space, is on a collision course with the moon. Part of a Falcon 9 rocket from billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX space exploration program is on a collision course with the moon! The rocket’s upper stage, the … Read more
You may also be interested [EN VIDÉO] SpaceX: replay of the successful flight of the Starship SN15 prototype Watch the SN15 prototype of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft fly at altitude. The machine landed successfully in the planned landing area, and for the first time, without exploding! The most important element of Starship is the Raptor engine. … Read more
You may also be interested [EN VIDÉO] SLS, the most powerful launcher in the world Video presentation of the future most powerful launcher in the world, developed by NASA for the Artemis lunar program. Today the Nasa and SpaceX are each developing a heavy launcher capable of sending humans onto the Moon and on Mars. … Read more
In France, dozens of start-ups were born with the ambition to conquer the stars. This is the case of Spartan Space, in Grenoble. Its designer imagined a structure, named Eurohab, to allow astronauts to push their exploration on the Moon a little further. “Today, an astronaut can move away from his rocket lander by ten … Read more
Successful launch of Crew-4, Wednesday, April 27, at 9:52 a.m. Paris time, from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The fourth astronauts on board were leaving for the Space station. Two of them have already stayed there: Kjell Lindgren, mission commander, and the European Samantha Cristoforetti. Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon … Read more
Like a modern-day Percival Lowell, Elon Musk is a true Mars enthusiast. So much so that, from the beginning of the 2000s, the young multimillionaire of barely 30 years old wanted to get into aerospace. Initially, Musk’s goal was to build a science base on the Red Planet with the project March Oasis. But the … Read more
For the pleasure of the eyes, 3 remarkable photos of the launch yesterday morning, May 18, in Florida, of a launcher Falcon 9 with 53 mini-satellites of the starlink constellation at its top. Professional photographers regularly attend the launches of SpaceX (there, it was the third in five days!), on behalf of the company ofElon … Read more