Tag: SpaceX

• Wednesday, September 11th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission lifts off for first-ever non-professional spacewalk

  

  Internet Service Provider (ISP) Starlink's parent company SpaceX Tuesday launched the Polaris Dawn manned mission featuring a billionaire, a pilot, and two female company employees for the performance of the first-ever private spacewalk in history.

• Tuesday, April 9th 2024 - 20:38 UTC

  Lula joins diatribes against Elon Musk

  

  Although he did not mention him by name, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva targeted X owner Elon Musk when he warned that billionaires must learn to preserve the rainforest. Lula made those remarks during an event at the Planalto Palace announcing funding worth US$ 145.8 million to combat wildfires and achieve the 2030 goals.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 08:38 UTC

  Bolsonaro, Musk make joint announcement in Sao Paulo

  

  Billionaire Elon Musk and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have agreed to start a strategic partnership ahead of this year's Oct. 2 elections, it was reported.

• Thursday, November 18th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Bolsonaro gov't wants Elon Musk to supply internet access to Amazon region

  

  Negotiations between Brazil's Government and entrepreneur Elon Musk to make the internet available to people in the Amazon region were announced Wednesday.

• Monday, November 16th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  SpaceX successful launch to the Space Station with four astronauts in the Dragon capsule

  

  SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private company. The Falcon rocket thundered into the night from Kennedy Space Center with three Americans and one Japanese, the second crew to be launched by SpaceX.

• Monday, August 3rd 2020 - 10:40 UTC

  Milestone for Tesla and NASA's “space taxi contract”: US can now send and bring back its astronauts

  

  The United States first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The successful mission, carried out jointly by SpaceX and NASA, demonstrated that the United States has the capacity once more to send its astronauts to space and bring them back.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:29 UTC

  NASA astronauts enter the Space Station after landmark journey on the Crew Dragon

  

  NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station on Sunday after a landmark 19-hour journey on the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade, a triumph for SpaceX and private enterprise.

• Monday, October 8th 2018 - 08:17 UTC

  Double purpose rocket launch: Argentine satellite for farmers and recovering first stage

  

  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Argentine satellite has blasted off from California. The primary purpose of Sunday's mission is to place the SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit, but SpaceX will also try for the first time to bring the Falcon's first stage back to a landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch site.