In June, a secretive unmanned Chinese spaceplane closely monitored by US military analysts released a small satellite hundreds of miles above Earth in an orbital region crowded with commercial and military satellites. The object then looped around another Chinese satellite before returning towards the spaceplane, according to US space-tracking firm LeoLabs. Little is known about…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX swooped in Monday to complete Florida’s 94th liftoff of the year, breaking the state’s yearly record for launches in place of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origins, which had to scrap its mission last week. SpaceX took the historic spot when it launched the latest batch of its Starlink satellites aboard its Falcon 9…
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Acting NASA chief Sean Duffy and billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday traded barbs online over who should lead the space agency, a day after Duffy invited companies to compete with Musk’s SpaceX for a moon landing mission. The spat involving the U.S. space program and the SpaceX CEO, which have…