Elon Musk-led SpaceX is gearing up for the highly anticipated tenth test flight of its Starship Super Heavy system as it eyes the maiden Mars launch in 2026. The latest test flight comes after the failure of the ninth test flight earlier this year. The new announcement comes following comprehensive investigations into issues encountered during…
Kairan Quazi, the teenage prodigy who captured global attention as one of the youngest engineers in the world, is taking the next big step in his career. At just 16, he is leaving SpaceX, where he played a key role in the Starlink project, contributing to Elon Musk’s mission to provide global internet connectivity through…
Elon Musk’s teen prodigy Kairan Quazi is trading rockets for trading algorithms, leaving SpaceX after two years to join quantitative trading giant Citadel Securities as a developer in New York City. “I felt ready to take on new challenges and expand my skill set into a different high-performance environment,” the 16-year-old told Business Insider in…
China has been urged to speed up the development of solar power in space to gain a stronger footing in the new energy sector and the space race. Ge Changchun, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, called in an article for a top-down strategy to speed up efforts to develop the technology and…
SpaceX officials have privately boasted to investors that a tax benefit signed into law by President Donald Trump means it may never have to pay federal income taxes, The New York Times reports. Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, allowing corporations to roll over their heavy losses, known as a carryback,…
Elon Musk lauded JD Vance as a “good guy” and solidly backed President Donald Trump’s power grab in Washington, D.C., only a day after the US Vice President urged him SpaceX CEO and Republican leader to get back together. Following Vance’s plea, Musk made a flurry of posts on X next morning, voicing his support…
Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut plunged back to Earth on Saturday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, west of San Diego, to wrap up a five-month mission to space. Strapped into SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance, commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov…
Aug. 9 (UPI) — The four members of Crew-10 made a successful water landing off the coast of California Saturday morning, with splashdown taking place as scheduled at 11:33 a.m. EDT. Crews on the SpaceX recovery ship MV Shannon successfully lifted the Dragon spacecraft, carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration…
Four outgoing International Space Station crew members undocked from the lab complex Friday and set their sights on a Pacific Ocean splashdown Saturday to close out a 148-day mission. Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov bid their station crewmates farewell, floated into the SpaceX Crew…
Elon Musk claims to have slashed billions of dollars worth of wasteful spending during his time as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—but his controversial role may have done more damage to his pocketbook than he anticipated. This year alone, Musk has lost some $80 billion in his net worth, bringing his current…