It was a busy first half for the US-New Zealand company Rocket Lab, which released results for the first half of 2021 on Wednesday – the first such reporting since the company went public last month. Rocket Lab reported sales of $ 29.5 million for the six month period. Backlog also increased to $ 141.4 … Read more
Blue Origin wants to send tourists past the so-called Karman Line. The billionaires race for space is big business. The trip is the culmination of a 20 year journey for Bezos with his company Blue Origin. VAN HORN, Texas – Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin missile crew realized their dreams on … Read more
Rocket Lab is known (mostly) for its orbital flights, but its interplanetary efforts will soon bear fruit. The startup has received an order to build two spaceships for ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), a mission selected by NASA to investigate how solar wind is removing the Martian atmosphere and changing the planet’s … Read more
A huge section of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket is falling back to Earth, and debris can land sometime on Saturday night or later – if the rocket doesn’t burn on the way down. According to calculations by Aerospace Corporation, a California-based nonprofit group that operates a space research and development center, the rocket … Read more
The third season of the Rocket League kicks off April 7th and this time Psyonix brings some of the biggest names in motorsport to the game. NASCAR and Formula 1 vehicles come to the car soccer title in May. The developer says he created his own “speed demon” to compete with these cars. The Tyranno … Read more
SpaceX has put another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit – meaning it has sent a total of 180 satellites to join its 1,000-plus constellation in the past two weeks alone. Today’s launch also set a record for SpaceX for its Falcon 9 rocket reusability program, as it was the ninth flight and landing for this … Read more