16 November 2020
SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISS
...the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled the Crew Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts...Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX. “Falcon 9 looked great, Dragon was dropped off into a ...
31 March 2021
Inspiration4 names final crew members for world’s first all-civilian mission to space
... mission and the adventure of a lifetime.” All crew members will undergo commercial astronaut training by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft – the very same Dragon spacecraft currently attached to the International Space...
24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
... in California. Launch time was 10:21 pm PST on 23 November (1:21 am 24 November). Shortly after launch the spacecraft separated from the Falcon 9 second stage and was flying on its own. "Asteroid Dimorphos: we're coming for you!" NASA tweeted after...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
...Space Exploration Technologies Corporation), a commercial launch provider created by Paypal’s founder Elon Musk, to land their heavy Falcon 9 first stage on a custom-build ocean platform3? By re-using the first stage, SpaceX wants to break the $1,000...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... investors. We consider ourselves to be highly ambitious. After all, SpaceX also began its journey with a small rocket, Falcon 1. The whole idea of super-light rockets is that today, small satellites are only being launched via...
October 2015
Baikonur, Kibo and beyond: Japan’s leading role in space
... the ISS programme, Japan has been devoting a lot of other resources to space exploration. The probe Hayabusa (‘Falcon’) landed on asteroid Itokawa and returned to Earth in June 2010 with asteroid samples seven years after the...
