NASA is just hours away from its first crewed launch of 2026, and its first since Crew-11 flew to orbit in August last year. Just ahead of Crew-12’s liftoff, the space agency has released a short trailer (above) for the mission, which will send four as…
As SpaceX and NASA gear up for the Crew-12 launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida early on Friday morning, its colleagues at United Launch Alliance (ULA) are just hours away from sending the Vulcan Centaur rocket skyward on only its fourth flight. A two…
A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.
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The round was led by FPV Ventures co-founder and managing partner Wesley Chan.
According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult.
SpaceX is edging toward the 12th launch of its Starship rocket, which this time will see a new version of the massive vehicle head skyward. The launch team has just completed a crucial test of the Starship’s first stage — the Super Heavy — at its Starb…
SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch of the next crewed flight to the International Space Station (ISS) due to unfavorable weather conditions in the ascent corridor. The launch team had been targeting Wednesday, February 11, for liftoff, but is now …
One year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to uncover what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the agency has withheld relevant documents “in bad faith” and is asking a court to allow discovery and depositions to draw out the information. “Thus […]