American electric car startup Lucid Motors drove its “Lucid Air” prototype from its headquarters in Silicon Valley to Los Angeles and back, an 800-mile journey, on just two charges. Lucid Motors was established in 2007 and aimed to create high-performance electric vehicles. After unveiling the Lucid Air in December 2016, the company has fine-tuned its […]
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NASA and SpaceX are progressing full steam ahead to an epic launch of the crewed Dragon spacecraft. Known as Demo-2, the mission is estimated to blast off in mid-to-late May, marking the first-ever flight of the Dragon with astronauts on board. As part of that historic mission, two NASA astronauts — Doug Hurley and Bob […]
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Rocket Lab, the world’s most prominent dedicated small satellite launcher, has made significant headway on plans to recover and reuse the booster stage of its Electron rocket, meaning that SpaceX’s reusable Falcon rockets could finally have company. Recovering a booster is perhaps where all similarities end, however. While the SpaceX Falcon 9 gracefully guides itself […]
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Just weeks after SpaceX suffered its first in-flight rocket engine failure since 2012, the company has scheduled its next launch on April 16th. Set to lift off no earlier than (NET) 5:31 pm EDT (21:31 UTC) from NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39A (Pad 39A), the mission will be SpaceX’s seventh dedicated launch […]
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Officials say that SpaceX’s first mission for the Space Force – also the company’s second upgraded GPS III satellite launch – has been significantly delayed by the United States’ growing coronavirus outbreak. Only recently folded into the Space Force, a Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) press release discussed the decision in greater detail, confirming […]
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American electric vehicle startup Rivian has confirmed that the start of its electric vehicle production at its factory in Normal, Illinois has been pushed back to 2021 as a result of the delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rivian released a video in early April, along with a humorous “April Fools” joke, updating the public […]
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SpaceX’s original Cargo Dragon spacecraft has officially departed the International Space Station for the last time after completing its 20th orbital resupply mission for NASA. Wrapping up nearly a decade of launches, this will be SpaceX’s last space station resupply mission until its upgraded Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft – based on Crew Dragon – takes […]
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According to Boeing’s new Starliner testing plan, the spacecraft could potentially meet SpaceX’s own Crew Dragon astronaut spacecraft in orbit at the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. Following Starliner’s near-catastrophic December 2019 orbital flight test (OFT), Boeing and NASA have finally announced that – at a minimum – a second uncrewed flight test […]
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shown off a rarely-seen phase of Starship construction, further confirming that the next full-scale rocket ship is rapidly coming together after operator error destroyed its predecessor on April 3rd. Around 5 am local time (10:00 UTC) on April 5th, Musk shared a photo of a smaller secondary tank’s installation inside […]
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to better explain what happened when the latest full-scale Starship prototype failed during one of its first tests, while later revealing the rocket engines set to power a future prototype’s first flight. On April 3rd, SpaceX initiated the third full-scale Starship prototype’s first cryogenic (ultra-cold) pressure test by […]
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