TeamIndus, the only Indian team in the Google Lunar XPrize, announced a competition Wednesday for students to design a payload that will go to the moon at the end of 2017.
The private space company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, will try to put two satellites in geostationary transfer orbits, one each for Eutelsat and ABS, on Wednesday morning.
Elon Musk’s space transport company has proved once again it can recover a first-stage rocket from a high-orbit satellite launch.
The country test launched its home-grown winged reusable launch vehicle Monday, joining Japan, Russia and Europe in the race.
The Dragon cargo spacecraft carried in it a large amount of scientific data collected aboard the International Space Station.
In another boost to Elon Musk’s space technology ambitions, the Falcon 9 rocket will also put a Japanese satellite in orbit.
A rocket launch set for Friday by entrepreneur Elon Musk's company is said to be more difficult than a successful April 8 landing.
The mission would serve as a test flight for a redesigned Dragon spacecraft.
The Dragon spacecraft is carrying an expandable habitat and mice as part of its cargo.
Bigelow Aerospace developed an inflatable structure that could be useful for missions to Mars.
Elon Musk's spaceflight company has had three successful launches since the June 2015 crash.
The private spaceflight company, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, marked its third successful rocket landing on Saturday.
Saturday's event would be the third time the company is attempting a “soft” landing of its New Shepard rocket after previous successful tests in November and January.
The company, founded in 2000, aims to send its first paying passengers to space as soon as 2018, Bezos said Tuesday.
Private companies are developing an American-made rocket engine for use in 2019.
SpaceX successfully launched a rocket sending a satellite into space, but landing the booster on a drone ship at sea did not go as well.
Thick clouds and wind delayed the most recent effort to launch and recover the rocket at sea.
The SpaceX founder tried again at an ocean landing, but the degree of difficulty just got harder.
An MIT team won top honors at a previous competition to help design the high-speed transit system.
The test track, to be built near the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, would serve as a proving ground for the pod prototypes.
The space transportation company, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, reused the same rocket that was successfully tested in November.
The launch's primary mission, however, was a success, sending a $180 million U.S.-French satellite into orbit.