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  SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft released from International Space Station, to reach Earth tonight

  January 14, 2019 14:41 IST

  The commercial cargo vessel will bring home a variety of critical space research, including ISS hardware to extracted for analysis, refurbishment or discarding, NASA said.

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  SpaceX launches India's first private satellite built by Mumbai-based startup

  January 03, 2019 17:43 IST

  Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched India’s first privately built satellite ExseedSat-1 along with 63 other satellites recently.

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  SpaceX Christmas delivery arrives at space station

  December 09, 2018 7:52 IST

  The Dragon capsule pulled up at the orbiting lab three days after launching from Cape Canaveral. Commander Alexander Gerst used the space station’s big robotic arm to grab the cargo carrier, as the two craft soared 250 miles above the Pacific.  

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  SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with 6,000 pound of re-supply mission launched to International Space Station

  December 06, 2018 13:55 IST

  Besides delivering supplies and hardwares, the Dragon will also deliver science experiments including the Robotic Refuelling Mission 3 (RRM3) and the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI).

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  SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket carrying 64 small satellites in single mission

  December 04, 2018 6:48 IST

  The Falcon 9 carried to orbit 64 spacecraft, in particular 15 Micro satellites and 49 cubesats, from 34 different organisations from 17 countries.

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  SpaceX CEO Elon Musk plans on living on Mars, come what may

  Technology | November 26, 2018 19:39 IST

  Elon Musk said there's "70 per cent chance that he will go to Mars", despite a "good chance" of him not surviving either on his way or after landing.

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  NASA, SpaceX gear up to test rocket that will carry people to space

  November 24, 2018 17:14 IST

  As part of the preparation, the space agency will first shoot out a test flight on January 7. 

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  SpaceX drops plans to upgrade Falcon 9 for more 'reusability'

  November 18, 2018 15:19 IST

  Instead of upgrading Falcon 9 for more reusability, SpaceX was now focusing on "accelerating BFR (Big Falcon Rocket)".

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  SpaceX successfully completes its first Falcon 9 ground landing in California

  October 08, 2018 14:32 IST

  Elon Musk-founded private spaceflight company SpaceX on Sunday successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on land after delivering an Argentinian earth-observation satellite from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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  Tesla's new referral programme allows you to send a photo into deep space

  Technology | October 07, 2018 14:19 IST

  The photos will be sent as part of the "Launch Your Photo into Deep Space Orbit" reward on SpaceX rockets.

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  First manned SpaceX mission set for June 2019, Boeing mission in August: NASA

  October 07, 2018 9:24 IST

  It is the first crewed mission by the US since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. NASA astronauts currently use Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and its contract is set to expire in November 2019.  

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  Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to be first private moon flight passenger, says SpaceX

  September 18, 2018 9:15 IST

  Maezawa said he wants his guests for the lunar orbit "to see the moon up close, and the Earth in full view, and create work to reflect their experience."

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  SpaceX to send first private passenger to Moon, tourist's identity to be revealed soon

  September 14, 2018 14:58 IST

  The tourist will fly in the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) being designed to carry people into deep space, the Elon Musk led company said in a tweet.

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  SpaceX spacecraft carrying AI robot Cimon reaches space station

  July 02, 2018 19:19 IST

  The spacecraft lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket on June 29 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.  

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  SpaceX to launch Dragon spacecraft to resupply ISS

  June 27, 2018 11:11 IST

  The spacecraft is expected to reach the International Space Station on July 2.

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  ISS deploys first satellite to collect space junk

  June 25, 2018 11:45 IST

  The satellite is one of the world's first attempts to tackle the build-up of dangerous space debris orbiting the Earth.

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  Malala's otherworldly ‘Hello’ message to Tesla CEO Elon Musk is winning the Internet

  Trending | June 01, 2018 10:12 IST

  Twitterati is praising renowned Pakistani educational activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai over her hilarious tweets to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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  After Falcon 9, SpaceX's Elon Musk sets target of 300 space missions in next five years

  May 13, 2018 11:55 IST

  "SpaceX will probably build 30 to 40 rocket cores for 300 missions over 5 years. Then the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) takes over and Falcon retires", says Musk.

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  SpaceX delays launch debut of upgraded Falcon rocket

  World | May 11, 2018 8:13 IST

  This latest version of the Falcon 9 was supposed to blast off on Thursday from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, carrying Bangladesh's first satellite, which would bring the internet to all corners of the country.

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  NASA set to launch new satellite from Florida to hunt for Earth-like planets

  April 16, 2018 20:14 IST

  TESS has been fitted with four wide-field cameras that will give the satellite a field-of-view covering 85 per cent of our entire sky.