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Musk secures $7.1 bn to finance Twitter deal
May 05, 2022 (AFP)
Musk, chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, listed 18 investors who agreed to cash investments including Ellison ($1 billion), Sequoia Capital ($800 million) and...
Maritime Launch plans inaugural flight for 2023
May 05, 2022 (SPX)
This partnership will advance the continuing plan to bring medium class launch capability to Nova Scotia to meet growing satellite constellation market needs. A...
Successful test launch a giant leap for rocketry team
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the team will fly to the US in June to compete at Spaceport America Cup, an international student rocketry competition held an...
British rocket company calls for Iceland to grant licence for landmark launch
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
The proposed launch in Iceland would cement a pivotal new relationship at the heart of European space efforts, following confirmation received in 2021 of a Memo...
Aphelion Aerospace completes rocket engine development test
May 03, 2022 (SPX)
This ground testing is a critical phase of research and development because Aphelion Aerospace utilizes a proprietary chemical blend that has not been used in t...
Rocket Lab catches rocket booster returning from space with helicopter
May 02, 2022 (SPX)
After launching to space, Electron's first stage returned to Earth under a parachute. At 6,500 ft, Rocket Lab's Sikorsky S-92 helicopter rendezvoused with the r...
Rocket Lab pushes back attempt of mid-air booster catch to Sunday
May 01, 2022 (UPI)
"The weather has improved through the week, but the forecast is showing the best wind and cloud cover conditions a few days from now, so we're targeting no earl...
SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites from Florida
Apr 29, 2022 (UPI)
The launch took place as scheduled at 5:27 p.m., with the reusable first-stage rocket landing on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship at 5:36 p.m. It was t...
China launches multiple satellites
Apr 29, 2022 (XNA)
The satellites, Siwei 01 and 02, were launched by a Long March 2C carrier rocket at 12:11 pm (Beijing Time) and have entered the planned orbit. They will provid...
HyPrSpace raises 1M euro in seed funding to develop reusable hybrid micro-launcher
Apr 29, 2022 (SPX)
Founded in 2019 by Alexandre Mangeot, Sylvain Bataillard and Vincent Rocher, HyPrSpace aims to develop a launcher using a propulsion technology that facilitates...
US Judge denies Musk bid to scrap SEC deal barring him from tweeting about Tesla stake
Apr 28, 2022 (Sputnik)
"The motion [...] to terminate the consent decree is DENIED," Judge Lewis Liman wrote in his ruling after Musk sought to scrap his 2018 settlement with the SEC ...
SpaceX set to launch its latest crew to ISS for NASA
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
With weather appearing favorable, the Crew-4 mission should blast off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:52 am (0752 GMT), carrying Americans Kjell Lindgren, Bo...
Canada's first commercial spaceport lists on the NEO Exchange as Maritime Launch Services
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
Maritime Launch is building a Spaceport in Nova Scotia, which is positioned to become a world-class commercial launch complex. The first of its kind in Canada, ...
Vega-C: Launcher integration begins for inaugural flight VV21
Apr 27, 2022 (ESA)
The interstage segment to join the P120C first stage with the Z40 second stage followed on the 22nd. For flight VV21, the principal payload will be LARES-2, a s...
SpaceX launches its latest crew to ISS for NASA
Apr 27, 2022 (AFP)
The Crew-4 mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:52 am (0752 GMT), carrying Americans Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, as well as...
IHI AEROSPACE received its first commercial launch service order
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
QPS-SAR-3 and QPS-SAR-4 are under manufacturing by iQPS with more than 25 partner companies in northern Kyushu and other parts of Japan. Two satellites will be ...
Artemis I, Crew-4, and Starlink Rockets on the Pad
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
On the right, NASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard sits atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, whil...
Crew of first private flight to ISS head back to Earth
Apr 25, 2022 (AFP)
The three businessmen and a former NASA astronaut had spent more than two weeks on the station on a history-making mission organized by startup company Axiom Sp...
Crew of first private flight to ISS return to Earth
Apr 25, 2022 (AFP)
After a dizzying descent, a SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the Axiom-1 gently floated down to the Atlantic Ocean near Jacksonville at 1:06 pm (1706 GMT) on four...
Crew of first private flight to ISS prepare for Earth return
Apr 24, 2022 (AFP)
The three businessmen and a former NASA astronaut had spent more than two weeks on the station on a history-making mission organized by startup company Axiom Sp...
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