‘Earth looks perfect’: SpaceX crew perform first private spacewalk
Elon Musk-led company completes latest and riskiest bid to push the boundaries of commercial space flight
Elon Musk-led company completes latest and riskiest bid to push the boundaries of commercial space flight
Privately funded five-day mission blasts off from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
Rocket designed by Elon Musk’s company reached altitude of more than 210km at a speed of 25,700km/h
Issue involved an oxygen relief valve on the upper stage of the company’s Atlas rocket, engineer says
Spacecraft flew around globe for first time but contact was lost during final stages of test as it re-entered atmosphere
Rotation of Eirsat-1, which is no bigger than a brick, righted by ground teams after being ejected from SpaceX rocket
Spacecraft is believed to have caught one of its landing feet on the uneven lunar surface and tipped over
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Moon lander could be first private private mission to land intact on lunar surface
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Eirsat-1 got a clean deployment from the SpaceX rocket that carried it into low orbit, California base reports
‘We are about to become a spacefaring nation,’ says UCD researcher
Dr David Murphy of the EIRSAT-1 team said the mission will bring Ireland’s space industry to new heights
Uncrewed spacecraft is presumed to have failed and self-destructed
Biographer Walter Isaacson spent two years embedded with the Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter boss as he researched his book
Billionaire defends move claiming he did not want SpaceX company to be ‘explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation’
US military opening up to defence and weapons start-ups as evolving technology begins to transform modern warfare
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Unmanned rocket was not expected to complete all phases of first attempted space flight
Musk owned company will need a minimum of two days to prepare the system for another attempt at orbital flight
Change comes as ex-Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal reveals DOJ probe in pursuit of legal fees repayment
‘Technical glitch’ blamed for cancellation of flight to International Space Station
International rush towards satellite technology after Starlink proves crucial in Ukraine
Cork-born photographer Rhiannon Adam to take off in remarkable artist residency on ‘dear moon’ mission
Data from US-French satellite is expected to shed new light on the mechanics and consequences of climate change
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is funding the SpaceX lunar flight
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Autonomous commercial aircraft are coming and will be commercially attractive, reduce flight crew costs, and address pilot shortages
His ambitions have a common theme: a desire to improve on what’s there, push the boundaries, think big and change the world
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