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Google Ventures to invest $1 bn in Elon Musk owned SpaceX Low-Cost Satellite Internet Service project

Jan 20, 2015

Reports from multiple sources suggest that the tech giant Google might invest up to $1 billion in in Elon Musk owned SpaceX. The basic purpose underlying this huge investment will be to support the creation of ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 delivers cargo to ISS but failed to land upon floating platform

Charles Omedo

Jan 12, 2015

Innovation

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 had been launched to deliver cargo weighing over 5,000 pounds or 2,300 kg to the International Space Station (ISS) – and it sure did; but it crashed upon return to Earth – failing to safe-land...

SpaceX calls off the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket due to technical faults

Charles Omedo

Jan 7, 2015

Innovation

Technical faults have necessitated SpaceX to abort the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket at the last minute of take-off. The Dragon cargo-bearing ship was scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station (...

SpaceX dispatches rocket to ISS with food supplies and equipments

Charles Omedo

Jan 6, 2015

Innovation

Owned by billionaire CEO Elon Musk, private space company SpaceX is set to dispatch its Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, January 6 by 6:20 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center in...

NASA names four aerospace firms for commercial Space partnership

Amanda

Dec 25, 2014

Innovation

NASA has named four commercial aerospace firms selected by it to develop its new space capabilities. The Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities (CCSC) initiative of the premier space agency aims to ad...

SpaceX plans to land a rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean

Charles Omedo

Dec 10, 2014

Innovation

SpaceX is planning to launch its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on December 16, but company also plans to do something much more – return its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth and have it land on...

Europe meets to compete with SpaceX by funding Ariane rocket

Charles Omedo

Dec 1, 2014

Innovation

In view of the fact that SpaceX offers rocket launches for 50 million euros, as against the European Space Agency’s (ESA) cost of 130 million euros for the launch of Ariane 5, 20 european science ministers are ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket successfully delivers AsiaSat 6 Satellite into the Orbit

Platonium

Sep 7, 2014

Innovation

A Space Exploration Technologies Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to deliver a commercial communications satellite into orbit. The communications satellite will provide ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes AsiaSat 6 Communication Satellite into Orbit

Christian Bloss

Sep 7, 2014

Innovation

FAA approves of a SpaceX launch site

Platonium

Jul 15, 2014

Innovation

The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) office of Commercial Space Transportation gave permission for a SpaceX launch site in Cameron County, Texas. The FAA's "Record of Decision" gave approval "to sup...

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