Washington: Elon Musk’s SpaceX and two partners have emerged at the forefront of winning an important part of President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, saying six people familiar with the case. Musk’s rocket and satellite company Golden Dome is partnered with software manufacturer Palantir and drone builder Enduril to build major parts of … Read more
New Delhi: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket flew away from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Saturday night after several postpones a week. The mission deployed 21 Starlink satellites into class, 13 of which featured direct-to-cell capabilities aimed at improving mobile connectivity worldwide. The liftoff introduced a breathtaking view to the audience, especially along the space coast … Read more
Cape Canaveral, United States: SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight directly over Earth’s polar regions on Monday — a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts. Named “Fram2” after the famed Norwegian ship built in the 19th century for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, the mission will feature a range of experiments including taking the … Read more
Washington: Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Monday was set to launch a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before. Maltese investor Chun Wang, a Chinese-born magnate who founded a bitcoin mining company, is … Read more
(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight mission to fly over the Earth’s polar regions, funded and commanded by cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang. The mission, called Fram2, after a Norwegian polar expedition ship that operated in the late 1800s and early 1900s, is set to launch on a Falcon … Read more
Cape Canaveral, United States: SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth’s polar regions on Monday — a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts. Named “Fram2” after the famed Norwegian ship built in the 19th century for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, the mission will feature a range of experiments … Read more
Paris: A blue and white spiral spotted in the skies above numerous European countries was likely created by frozen fuel from a SpaceX rocket, according to weather forecasters. The UK’s Met Office said it had received many reports of an “illuminated swirl” in the British sky on Monday evening that was likely caused by a … Read more
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams’ sister-in-law Falguni Pandya said she was shown a photo of the Maha Kumbh from the International Space Station (ISS). In an exclusive interview with NDTV, she said, “I talked to her (Sunita Williams) right before I travelled to Kumbh. I asked her if she can see the Kumbh from space and … Read more
Puffy heads, chicken legs, taller space height and reduced density – as Crew-9 astronauts face all these health implications on their return to Earth after nine months in space, they will undergo a 45-day rehabilitation programme to prepare for gravity. A stay at the International Space Station can have various effects on the astronauts’ bodies … Read more
New Delhi: Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams’ family today said they were “happy” that she has returned to Earth safely after an unexpected nine-month stay in space. “That moment was surreal,” Falguni Pandya, her sister-in-law, told NDTV, referring to the SpaceX Dragon spaceship, which brought back Ms Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore, making a soft splashdown … Read more
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned home after their over nine-month extended stay at the International Space Station (ISS). NASA’s Crew-9 returned in SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and splashed down off the coast of Florida at 3:27 am (IST). SpaceX CEO Elon Musk congratulated SpaceX and NASA teams for “another safe astronaut return”. Musk … Read more
US President Donald Trump had promised to “rescue” NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore “stranded” in space and has kept his promise, said the White House, as the two astronauts returned to Earth early morning, at 3:27 am (IST). In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the White House shared the video of the … Read more