Cambridge University physicist Yun Guolin – a pioneer in pressure-sensitive wearable tech – has returned to China to join his alma mater, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Yun is now a special professor in the department of modern mechanics at the university in Hefei. He specialises in researching liquid metals and…
Breaking down the latest space launch mishaps – CBS News Watch CBS News You may have noticed all the troubling launch and landing mishaps affecting private space missions lately, from two explosions of a SpaceX Starship to lunar landers that can’t stay upright. Bill Harwood gives his perspective. Be the first to know Get browser…
A viral TikTok video posted Thursday captured an unexpected and dramatic sight from an airplane window—what appears to be Elon Musk‘s exploded SpaceX Starship Flight 8. “Imagine being an hour and a half into your flight out of punta cana & having to turn around because elon’s rocket blew up & you were this close…
Aviation regulator diverts flights from four airports in Florida to avoid falling debris. SpaceX’s Starship has exploded shortly after takeoff in the second launch failure this year for Elon Musk’s interplanetary exploration programme. But Musk’s rocket company was able to successfully return its mammoth first-stage booster to the launchpad following Thursday’s test-flight, catching it in…
SpaceX launched its huge Starship rocket on the program’s eighth test flight Thursday, but a malfunction of some sort triggered multiple upper stage engine shutdowns and the vehicle failed to reach its planned sub-orbital altitude, breaking apart in a spectacular shower of debris. It was the second failure in a row for a Starship upper…
Starliner commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore said Tuesday he did not think politics played any role in the crew’s extended mission, but he did not directly address earlier comments by President Trump and Elon Musk that the crew had been “abandoned” in space by the Biden administration. “Obviously, we’ve heard some of these different things that…
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander closed in on the moon Saturday, on course for a nail-biting automated descent to touchdown early Sunday, the first of three private-sector robotic moon landers to reach its target after launches earlier this year. The Blue Ghost lunar lander spent a month orbiting Earth after launch atop a Falcon 9…
(L to R) Laura Shepard Churchley, Michael Strahan, Dylan Taylor, Cameron Bess, Lane Bess and Evan Dick stand on the landing pad after they flew into space on Dec. 11, 2021 near Van Horn, Texas. Getty Images On Tuesday, (Feb. 25), Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launched its 10th space tourism mission using its New Shepard…
With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, the centerpiece of a multi-element NASA-sponsored mission to help pave the way for human expeditions. The workhorse rocket’s nine first-stage engines roared to life at 7:16 p.m. EST, pushing the booster…
Seven planets are aligning in the night sky this week, creating a brief chance to see a “planetary parade.” Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus could all be visible with clear skies, but not all can be seen by the naked eye, according to Space.com and other sites that track celestial events. For…