Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth after being stranded for nine days on the Tiangong space station. Their original return vehicle, the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, was damaged by space debris, rendering it unsafe. The crew used the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft, which had brought their replacements, to land safely in northern China. Three Chinese astronauts have returned to…
Rockets launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, have been seen as far as Myrtle Beach or Philadelphia. People in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama may see New Glenn rocket launch from Cape Canaveral. Billionaire Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin. The New Glenn rocket stands at 322 feet tall. Godspeed,…
The Starlink service, which begins at $80 per month for residential plans, will be free in Jamaica and the Bahamas through the end of November 2025. Starlink has also enabled direct-to-cell service in Jamaica for customers of communications provider Liberty Caribbean, bypassing the need for cell towers. Elon Musk and SpaceX have routinely made Starlink…
Starlink is SpaceX’s lucrative satellite internet business capable of reaching rural areas and other regions that have traditionally been underserved. SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket regularly deploys Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Five years after Starlink first became operational, 7 million people in…
To mark the five-year milestone, Starlink recently shared a promotional video on social media site X, which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk owns. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched on its first Starlink satellite mission in 2019, and continues to regularly add to the growing constellation with missions from Florida and California. Starlink has grown into a constellation…