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SpaceX made another successful landing of a rocket stage at sea

he Falcon-9 booster returned to a drone ship off the Florida coast just a few minutes after it had sent a Japanese satellite on its way to orbit. It is the second at-sea touchdown for California's SpaceX company, having completed the same task last month. This latest effort was all the more impressive however because the rocket was carrying much more speed when it made its return. SpaceX officials have said that recovering boosters used on missions that orbit geostationary satellites will always be more difficult because of the high velocity required to put those platforms in the right part of the sky. On confirmation of the latest landing, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted the joke: "May need to increase size of rocket storage hangar."The primary purpose of the latest Falcon launch was to orbit the JCSAT-14 satellite. This spacecraft will relay telecommunications over the Asia-Pacific region for the Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation. Lift-off from Florida's...

The US aerospace company SpaceX has successfully landed a resusable rocket on an ocean platform

Mission controllers cheered as the Falcon 9 rocket remained upright on the platform off Florida. It was returning from delivering an inflatable habitat into space for Nasa. The inflatable room will attach to the International Space Station (ISS) for a two-year test and become the first such habitat for humans in orbit. It is due to reach the ISS around 09:00 GMT on Sunday along with other freight aboard the Dragon capsule. Built by Nevada company Bigelow Aerospace, the habitat is intended to pave the way towards the use of such rooms for long space trips, including to Mars.Nasa had not attempted a cargo run with SpaceX since a June 2015 mishap, when an unmanned cargo rocket exploded soon after take-off. The Falcon 9 lifted off on schedule at 16:43 local time (20:43 GMT) on Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.After putting the Dragon capsule into orbit, the main-stage booster of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket separated and landed on the fl...

US entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has reflown his New Shepard rocket

The hardware was exactly the same as that used last November, "demonstrating reuse", the Amazon.com founder wrote on his blog. The flight took place on Friday from Mr Bezos' Texas test and launch facility. As has become his practice, he gave no general public notice of the event and released only limited details afterwards, along with a glossy video. November's outing marked the first time a rocket had launched a space mission vertically from the ground and then brought all elements - booster and capsule - softly and safely back to Earth. Although all the flights so far undertaken by Mr Bezos have been unmanned, he does eventually plan to fly passengers. "The very same New Shepard booster that flew above the Karman line and then landed vertically at its launch site last November has now flown and landed again, demonstrating reuse," the businessman said. "This time, New Shepard reached an apogee of 333,582ft (101.7km) before both capsule...

Two Galileo satellites ready to go

Two more route and timing shuttle are because of dispatch on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana. Their fruitful situation in circle will bring the quantity of satellites in the group of stars to 10 - 33% of the path to a system of 30 stages. Lift-off is set for 23:08 neighborhood time (02:08 GMT). The shuttle ought to partitioned from the rocket's upper-arrange a little more than three-and-a-half hours after the fact. Galileo is a task of the European Commission, the EU's official branch. It is intended to supplement the American Global Positioning System (GPS), while in the meantime presenting additional exactness for clients. Albeit committed administrations in view of the European system won't be made accessible until no less than 14 operational satellites are in circle, the signs from each new expansion in the sky can be abused by getting gadgets with perfect chipsets. "There are various chipsets that have been created and are in the business sector...

Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft a new target to aim " Pluto"

Nasa's New Horizons rocket has another focus to go for taking after its notable flyby of Pluto. It is called 2014 MU69, and was one of two comet-like protests that were under thought by researchers chipping away at the mission. The US space office will now complete an audit of the arrangement before formally favoring the mission's expansion. New Horizons completed its flyby of Pluto in July, drawing nearer to 12,500km from the diminutive person planet's surface. The shuttle caught nitty gritty pictures and other information of Pluto, as well as of its moons: Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra. The new target speaks the truth a billion and a half km past Pluto. It speaks the truth 45km crosswise over and is thought to be one of the building squares from which greater universes, for example, Pluto are framed. Such questions shape a locale of the external Solar System called the Kuiper Belt, containing a profound stop test of what our ine...

A rocket mission for London-based Inmarsat has been declared a success

The Russian Proton vehicle launched out the satellite high above Papua New Guinea in the early hours of Saturday (GMT). The shuttle is required by Inmarsat to finish its new worldwide information transfers system. This will offer clients generously speedier versatile broadband associations at a lower expense, and ought to come into administration towards the end of the year. "The dispatch is only the begin of an entirely long process," clarified Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce. "We've got the chance to test the new satellite's frameworks and sub-frameworks, and do the full reconciliation with alternate satellites in the system, and with the ground foundation. The new network, known as Global Xpress, is hugely important to the fortunes of company, which is fighting to maintain its dominance of the mobile satellite services market. Its principal customers are found in the shipping sector, but Inmarsat also caters for any groups that need telecom...