An enormous Blue Origin rocket meant to challenge SpaceX in regularly deploying satellites and other cargo into orbit underwent its inaugural flight test Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The New Glenn rocket, developed by the space technology company owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, had been rolled out days ago to the launch…
The University of Delaware has agreed to pay more than $700,000 to resolve claims that it failed to disclose a professor’s “affiliations with and support from” the Chinese government when seeking federal funds for research, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The settlement announced Monday ties to a NASA grant issued back in 2020….
With an unprecedented 85 orbital rockets launching through December from Florida’s Space Coast, how high will the new annual record climb before 2024 wraps up? Crews at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station surpassed the former annual record of 72 launches by Oct. 26, powered by dozens of SpaceX Starlink…
Elon Musk, who shelled out over $100 million and turned his social media platform X into an online megaphone to get out the vote for Donald Trump, has emerged as one of the presidential election’s biggest winners. The world’s richest man was the only Fortune 100 CEO to pick a side, endorsing Trump moments after the…
A dinner time or late night rocket launch is potentially scheduled − and depending on weather and visibility, it could light up the sky above Volusia County tonight. SpaceX is expected to send another batch of Starlink satellites to space via a Falcon 9 rocket for its next mission near Cape Canaveral on Monday, Oct. 21. This launch is…