SpaceX to launch mission to earth's poles
Digest more
Top News
Overview
Event details
Reuters |
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled ...
U.S. News & World Report |
Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur, hurtled into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Gizmodo |
SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is set for liftoff on Monday at 9:46 p.m. ET, launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read more on News Digest
The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel from the North to South Pole under an hour.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said it closed out a review into SpaceX's explosive Starship test flight in January, but said another review into the rocket's subsequent testing explosion in March remains open.
1d
The Daily Galaxy on MSNNASA Adds SpaceX’s Starship to Official Launch RosterNASA has officially added SpaceX’s Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, to its lineup of approved launch vehicles—a move that could reshape how the agency tackles deep space missions for years to come.
Advances in rocket acceleration to supersonic speeds before ignition part of plan to create hub of private rocket manufacture.
The Fram2 astronauts launched on a mission like no other Monday night. For three to five days, the crew of four will orbit Earth's polar regions.
SpaceX had two rockets at two pads on the Space ... 9 on the Fram2 human spaceflight from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 9:46 p.m. For the first launch, the first-stage booster ...