Home References Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 143 small satellites into orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 24, 2021 to mark the Transporter-1 rideshare mission. (Image credit: SpaceX) The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is the vehicle that brings satellites, Dragon cargo spacecraft…
Update 03/30 5:10pm: Falcon and the Winter Soldier will soon be reverting to the previous, non-censored version of the show after what IGN understands was a version control issue within Disney. A source within Disney tells IGN that the wrong file was published by accident, which featured scenes that removed blood and other violence. According…
Home News Skywatching (Image credit: SpaceX) A SpaceX rocket’s upper stage appears to have broken up safely over Mexico, five years after sending a satellite into space.Local reports on Twitter indicated that a part of the Falcon 9 that sent the Echostar 23 mission aloft in March 2017 met its demise Saturday (Feb. 6) after…
Home News Spaceflight Artist’s illustration of the DSCOVR satellite attached to its SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage shortly after launch in February 2015. (Image credit: SpaceX) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage is poised to slam into the moon one month from today (Feb. 4).In February 2015, the Falcon 9 launched the Deep Space…
Home News Spaceflight A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches into space from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 11, 2015 on a mission to send the Deep Space Climate Observatory on a million-mile trek to Lagrange Point 1. Its upper stage booster will hit the moon on March 4, 2022. (Image credit: SpaceX)…
Home News Entertainment (Image credit: Amazon) Can you build this Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon model in less than 12 parsecs? Because you can save over $31 when you get it from Amazon in this brilliant pre-Black Friday deal. With the holiday season right around the corner, Amazon is offering 20% off this 1,351-piece set that…