It has been a historic 24 hours for SpaceX & NASA now that human spaceflight has returned to America. NASA Astronauts Doug Hurley & Bob Behnken are now safely aboard the International Space Station after their 18 hour flight aboard Dragon Endeavour. Below you can watch a compressed version of this historic launch edited from the live streams provided by NASA & SpaceX. For upcoming missions click here. To keep up to date with us be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Tumblr. Bringing out your inner star sailor • To look up at the stars The post Successful Launch ..read more

On Sunday 20/01/2020 NASA and SpaceX completed its final flight test before carrying astronauts to the international space station. The test involved testing the spacecraft’s ability to separate from the rocket in case of an inflight emergency. The test also involved NASA and SpaceX configuring the Crew Dragon to trigger a launch escape after liftoff. The great news was that all functions of the test were successfully tested. This included separation, engine firings, deployment of the parachute and landing of the craft. She’s back! The #CrewDragon spacecraft that completed the in-fli ..read more

No earlier than January 18th, SpaceX will complete an in-flight abort test of its Crew Dragon Capsule. This will prove that a vital safety system on the spacecraft does function as intended. The launch abort system is in place to safeguard the astronauts if an emergency occurs during a launch. Saturday we will see the abort system intentionally activated around 88 seconds into flight, when the vehicle is experiencing maximum aerodynamic pressure. The eight SuperDraco engines built into the Dragon will pull the capsule clear of the ‘failing’ Falcon 9 booster. For a safe landing under parach ..read more

SpaceX’s Starhopper is to run another test hop. Following on from two previous tests back in April. Both of these tests took place at SpaceX’s Boca Chica test site in Texas. Image Credit SpaceX Both of the previous tests have been tethered close to the ground for safety reasons. However this time there planning to test it untethered. The reason for not testing this untethered sooner was because SpaceX had encountered a vibration problem with there powerful Raptor engine. Elon Musk made the announcement via twitter last weekend. Exciting progress in Boca! Hopper almost ready to hov ..read more

SpaceX and NASA are to team up with research into black holes, neutron stars, pulsar wind nebulae. NASA has awarded the contract to SpaceX to launch the agency’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. SpaceX will be launching this mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in April 2021. Interestingly SpaceX have persuaded NASA that it will launch the IXPE spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket. This is instead of using the Pegasus XL spacecraft. To use the Falcon 9 it is only going to cost SpaceX an estimated $50.3 million. This is much less than previous Falcon 9 launches. This ..read more

SpaceX back in May launched sixty satellites into orbit for there broadband project Starlink. Three out of sixty of the SpaceX satellites have lost contact. Over the past few weeks SpaceX confirmed that all of the satellites were responsive. Unfortunately though three out of the sixty satellites have lost contact. However SpaceX did express prior to the Starlink launch that not everything would necessarily go to plan. Some fear that the satellites that have lost contact may come crashing back to earth. However SpaceX has stated that the satellites will de-orbit naturally, burning up in the ear ..read more

Today SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launched into space with an almost complete success. If you’ve kept up to date with our posts this week you will have seen that the Falcon Heavy was carrying important payloads. Not only carrying 24 satellites it was also carrying NASA’s atomic clock. As well as 152 human remains. #SpaceX #FalconHeavy takes flight from Launch Complex 39A at 2:30am EDT with #STP2 pic.twitter.com/fWobJYm2dg— Nathan Barker (@NASA_Nerd) June 25, 2019 Launching from the Kennedy Space Centre off launch pad 39A. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launched with the two side boosters ..read more

As you may have read in our latest posts SpaceX is launching there Falcon Heavy tomorrow. This is weather permitting however we are going to look at briefly what is happening tomorrow. The Falcon Heavy will be launching tomorrow from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida from Launch complex 39A. If you want to be able to watch the launch of the Falcon Heavy NASA will be live streaming the event here. What will SpaceX be taking to space this time? Well the mission will include taking twenty four satellites to space. It will also be taking NASA’s new atomic clock to space which could make ..read more

SpaceX are due to launch their Falcon Heavy rocket on June 24th. This will be the third time that the Falcon Heavy rocket will have took to space. On board on this launch will be 24 satellites. But most importantly will be NASA’s new atomic clock. Dubbed the DSAC which stands for deep space atomic clock. Image credit NASAWhat’s the need for a deep space atomic clock? At the moment spacecraft receive signals from earth however these signals take up to 20 minutes to reach the spacecraft. The spacecraft then sends a signal back to earth. The time taken to bounce back the signal indicates the ..read more