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The new cameras are located near an international docking adapter on the station's Harmony module.

NASA astronauts install high-def cameras during spacewalk

The new high-definition video cameras are designed to help to visit commercial spaceships dock there in the coming years.

15 Jun 2018 11:32 AM

Ingalls has explained that despite his Canon DSLR being set up furthest from the launch pad, it melted.

This is why a NASA camera melted during SpaceX launch

During a SpaceX rocket launch on May 22, a high-end Canon camera suffered disastrously.

29 May 2018 5:27 PM

In this file photo provided by Blue Origin, the New Shepard booster lands in west Texas during a test. (Blue Origin via AP)

Trump aims to make it easier for companies to get to space

The president has signed a space policy directive asking the government to make it easier for private companies to get to and from space.

25 May 2018 11:59 AM

Elon Musk promises free rides through tunnel, but to where?

Elon Musk is promising the public “free rides” through the first high-speed passenger tunnel drilled beneath Los Angele.

13 May 2018 1:16 PM

The newly minted Block-5 edition of the Falcon 9 - equipped with about 100 upgrades for greater power, safety and reusability than its Block-4 predecessor - lifted off at 4:14 p.m. EDT (2014 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center.

SpaceX launches new rocket primed for future crewed missions

Minutes later, the rocket’s main-stage booster flew itself back to Earth.

12 May 2018 9:19 AM

A few minutes after blast-off was aborted, mission controllers for billionaire Elon Musk’s private launch company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies, said they would try again on Friday.

SpaceX postpones its first commercial launch of updated Falcon 9 rocket

The rocket’s onboard computers halted the countdown about one minute before the Block-5 edition of the Falcon 9 was set to blast off.

11 May 2018 9:11 AM

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transporting the Tess satellite lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla.(Photo: AP)

NASA’s Tess spacecraft embarks on quest to find new planets

The satellite — the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or Tess — will scan almost the entire sky for at least two years.

20 Apr 2018 9:42 AM

In this image provided by NASA, the Dragon capsule arrives at the International Space Station on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 with food and experiments. It will remain attached to the orbiting outpost for about a month, returning to Earth in May. Dragon launched Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a used Falcon rocket. SpaceX wants to reduce launch costs by recycling rocket parts. (Photo: AP)

SpaceX capsule reaches space station with food, experiments

The space station is currently home to astronauts from the US, Russia and Japan.

05 Apr 2018 2:39 PM

The effort is part of SpaceX's mission to lower the cost of space flight by re-using costly, multimillion-dollar components that typically have been discarded into the ocean after each launch. (Photo: Space X Twitter)

Reused Falcon 9 delivers cargo to ISS

Monday's trip marked SpaceX's 14th resupply mission for NASA under a $1.6 billion contract.

03 Apr 2018 3:09 PM

TESS, roughly the size of a refrigerator with solar-panel wings, is equipped with four special cameras to survey 200,000 stars that are relatively near the sun and thus among the brightest in the sky, seeking out those with planets of their own. (Photo: NASA)

NASA intensifying search for planets orbiting stars beyond solar system

NASA plans to send the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

01 Apr 2018 1:54 PM

Musk aims to make rockets as reusable as commercial aeroplanes, bringing down the cost of spaceflight and boosting efficiency. (Photo: SpaceX)

Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 deploys 10 satellites, but loses its nose

The nose was said to “impact water at high speed,” with Elon Musk not confirming successful recovery.

31 Mar 2018 2:06 PM

Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla, which had millions of followers, are no longer accessible.

Daring move: Elon Musk deletes Tesla, SpaceX Facebook pages

Musk has had run-ins with Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg in the past.

24 Mar 2018 9:37 AM

The orbiting satellite is almost as big as a city bus. (Photo: AP)

SpaceX racks up 50th launch of Falcon 9 rocket

The latest Falcon took flight from Cape Canavera, successfully hosting a massive communications satellite for Spain’s Hispasat corporation.

07 Mar 2018 8:12 AM

The companies are working with Berlin-based company PTScientists on the project, with a launch scheduled in 2019 from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Vodafone said.

Moon to get first mobile phone network

The network will enable them to stream video feeds in real-time from the lunar landscape.

28 Feb 2018 9:42 AM

The Falcon’s first stage was used to launch a satellite for Taiwan last August and was recovered by landing it on a drone ship in the Pacific. (Photo: AP)

SpaceX launches Spanish satellite, 2 others from California

The rocket’s primary payload was a satellite named PAZ for Spanish satellite operator Hisdesat.

23 Feb 2018 8:22 AM

The Falcon Heavy is believed to have enough grunt to deliver tons of mining equipments to an asteroid ripe with precious minerals.

SpaceX's Falcon can deliver heavy payloads to asteroids

The Falcon Heavy has enough power to help humans mine for precious minerals on asteroids.

20 Feb 2018 1:23 PM

A spectacle occurred on December 22 when a Falcon 9 lifted off shortly after sunset in exceptionally clear weather and reached an altitude where its expanding plume was illuminated by sunlight. (Photo: AP)

Satellite launch from California is delayed

The launch has been postponed to early Wednesday due to the need for more inspections.

19 Feb 2018 8:48 AM

Elon Musk had tweeted out soon after the launch that the car had overshot the trajectory by a few points and was instead headed into the asteroid belt.

Elon Musk's sports car will collide with Earth

The car is being tracked and a complex calculation reveals that it will crash with Earth ahead.

16 Feb 2018 9:47 AM

Democratic FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said satellite internet service shows great promise.

SpaceX gets US regulator to back satellite internet plan

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai proposed the approval of an application by SpaceX to provide broadband services using satellites worldwide.

15 Feb 2018 8:35 AM

Many space experts and legislators are expressing concern.

Trump aims for moon, pulls back on space station, telescopes

The government would set aside $150 million to encourage commercial development and use future savings to aim for the moon.

13 Feb 2018 8:48 AM

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