Hollywood actor Tom Cruise does not shy away from adventure. In action films, he is known for doing his own stunts. He’s planning to shoot a movie in outer space now. Axiom’s space tour and astronaut training services were contracted by Cruise’s production agency to oversee the project to film the first out of this…
After operating in stealth mode for about two years, First Resonance, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers, is finally showing the world their software toolkit designed to let manufacturers make things using the processes employed by their former boss. It is a suite of software products that can allow more versatile production processes and one…
SpaceX’s founder and Chief Engineer Elon Musk announced this week that SpaceX teams in South Texas would soon complete the construction of the next Starship prototype, known as SN8. Starship SN8 will be the first fully assembled stainless steel test vehicle with a top nose cone section and aerodynamic fins – which look like the…
SpaceX has released uncut video of one of its latest Falcon 9 launches and landings, including unparalleled onboard rocket audio across all flight stages. The rocket in question, Falcon 9 booster B1059, ended months of delays when it finally lifted off on August 30th, sending a new upper stage, payload fairing, and an Argentine Earth…
When the Tesla Roadster and its Starman occupant reached space in 2018 on the maiden voyage of Falcon Heavy, it joined the ranks of the impressive collection of human-made objects that have left Earth: The General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (GCAT). It is the most extensive compilation of publicly available space object data and…
Tesla has famously made electric cars cool. Today, NASA and space travel in general are experiencing a resurgence of cool, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been a big part of that, as reported in a recent CNBC video. Famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has said that NASA’s partnership with SpaceX is one of the biggest advancements…
Earlier this week, Elon Musk said there’s a “good chance” settlers in the first Mars missions will die. And while that’s easy to imagine, he and others are working hard to plan and minimize the risk of death by hardship or accident. In fact, the goal is to have people comfortably die on Mars after a long life of work and…
SpaceX is rapidly developing several Starship designs at the South Texas facility located at Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville. An orbital-class Starship will be equipped with six powerful Raptor engines. Raptors are fueled by cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen, a special mixture of fuel used in the aerospace industry. Every Raptor is capable of producing…
SpaceX is in the initial phase of developing its Mars launch vehicle, Starship. It will be a giant stainless steel spaceship capable of carrying one hundred passengers on long journeys. SpaceX conducted yet another low-altitude test flight of a Starship concept in South Texas September 3rd. The spacecraft named Starship SN6 soared 150-meter above the…
Self-driving cars may still be a distant dream despite massive progress in the last few years, but automated aircraft carrying cargo and passengers may soon be a possibility. Former Tesla and SpaceX employees have built an automated system that can carry cargo without a hitch. The start-up, Reliable Robotics, founded in 2017 by engineers who…