By Oliver Homes, Published by the Guardian, 20 April 2023 Largest and most powerful rocket ever built blasts off on test flight that is hoped to be step on human journey to Mars The largest and most powerful rocket ever built has blasted off from Texas but blew up within
By Jeffrey Kluger, Published by Time, 19 April 2023 SpaceX has never been reluctant to brag, especially when it comes to its celebrated Falcon 9 rocket. Since 2010, as a company toteboard shows, 217 Falcon 9s have flown, with 61 launches in 2022 alone, making it the workhorse of the
By Jeffrey Kluger, Published by Time, 17 April 2023 Time was, nobody gave much thought to the town of Boca Chica, a little community at the toe of Texas, hard up against the Gulf of Mexico. Distinguished mostly by its proximity to the city of Brownsville, the county seat of
By Elizabeth Howell, Publishd by Space.com, 12 April 2023 The Federal Communications Commission plans to streamline its space activities to meet fast-growing space safety needs. The fast-growing space debris issue is top of mind at a new space-focused division of the U.S. government. "Satellite and orbital debris rules" will be one of
CAS Space's prototype vertical landing rocket prototype in the air. By Baba Tamim, Published by Interesting Engineering, 9 April 2023 China's future rocket models will make use of the technology developed for recovering rockets, claims report. China has successfully tested a rocket's vertical landing in the ocean, laying the groundwork
By Stephen Clark, Published by Spaceflight Now, 2 April 2023 The first 10 spacecraft for a planned U.S. military mega-constellation launched from California Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting in place the keystone for a multibillion-dollar network of hundreds of small satellites to improve defenses against hypersonic missiles
By Theresa Hitchens, Published by Breaking Defense, 29 March 2023 The 10 satellites, which will be lofted on a reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg SFB to low Earth orbit (LEO), are the first batch of the Tranche 0 constellation, building blocks of America's resilient space strategy. Editor’s Note 4/03/2023
A key aim of the U.S. Space Force, created in 2019, is to plan, equip and defend U.S. interests in space.PHOTO: ETIENNE LAURENT/SHUTTERSTOCK By Doug Cameron, Published by The Wall Street Journal, 28 March 2023 White House’s spending request includes plans for simulators, equipment to train Space Force members for battle
