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Elon Says Starship Megarocket Could Perform First Orbital Flight in November

SpaceX recently performed a successful static fire test in which seven of the booster's 33 engines ignited.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie Sep 22

SpaceX Starship Prototype Belches Superhot Debris, Causes Literal Dumpster Fire

Flames spread across an environmentally sensitive area after a static fire test of SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Sep 9

Europe May Hire SpaceX Now That Russian Rockets Are Unavailable

The potential move offers a way for the European Space Agency to move forward, while driving Russia even further into the background.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie Aug 12

SpaceX Performs Limited Static Fire Test of Starship Booster, Avoids Explosion

An earlier test of the same booster in July resulted in a giant fireball that sent the prototype back to the factory for repairs.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Aug 10

Elon Musk’s Plan to Send a Million Colonists to Mars by 2050 Is Pure Delusion

There’s more to settling the Red Planet than just packing a whole lotta people into plus-sized rockets.

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Jun 3

Ahead of Jurassic World Dominion, Here’s a Guide to Dino Encounters at Universal’s Islands of Adventure

It's all fun as long as the animatronic T-Rex or Velociraptors don't achieve sentience.

Movies Sabina Graves May 17

Elon Musk Frantically Warns Employees of Potential SpaceX Bankruptcy

Musk advised employees to work over the weekend after reading Raptor engine production issues were far worse than previously thought.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Nov 30

SpaceX’s Starship Prototype Explodes in Fourth Failed Test

Like everything else in 2020, the fourth prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket has gone up in flames. It’s the latest in a series of spectacular explosions to plague the company’s Starship program. Shortly before 3 p.m. ET on Friday, the Starship SN4 prototype underwent a ground-level trial of its Raptor engine known as a static-fire…

Space & Spaceflight Alyse Stanley May 29

Cocaine Hippos, A New Mexico Raptor, and One Weird Cat: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

We’re heading into the last week of March, though it may not seem that way since 2020 feels like it’s lasted a few decades at this point. A worldwide pandemic will do that. Here’s to hoping that on April Fool’s Day, we’ll all wake up to find this has just been an elaborate, communal dream sequence…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Mar 29

SpaceX Just Passed a Major Milestone on Its Mission to Mars

SpaceX has been talking up its Martian travel plans for a while now, but we still don’t know how it intends to get (or survive) there. As of today, however, it’s cleared a major hurdle: the rocket engine it will use to get to the Red Planet just fired-up for the first time. Company founder…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Sep 26

Video: The invisible F-22 Raptor flying on its way to bomb ISIS in Syria

We saw the awesome photos and now we got the video: Witness the F-22 Raptor refueling somewhere over the Arabian Peninsula en route to ISIS targets in Syria, captured from a KC-135 tanker on September 27, 2014. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Sploid Jesus Diaz Oct 2

Cool photos of the F-22 refueling at night on its way to Syria

Amazing night shots by Tech. Sgt. Russ Scalf: An F-22 Raptor refuels over the Arabian Peninsula en route to Syria, armed and ready to attack ISIS targets. Look at the pilot inside, with his night vision helmet. It’s so cool it doesn’t even seem real. As you probably know, the F-22 Raptor stopped being the…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Sep 29

The F-22 Is Finally Seeing Action After Seven Years

A mere seven years (less than two presidential terms) after it was declared fit for combat operations—and then repeatedly grounded for operational issues—the F-22 Raptor has finally had its first taste of war in the skies over what used to be Syria but is now ISIS territory. The F-22 fleet has been quietly deployed to…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Sep 23

This Terrifying Robo-Raptor Will Hunt You Down at 29 MPH

Google doesn’t have a monopoly on all the horrifying-but-awesome robots. Sure, Wild Cat looks pretty ready to track down the last remaining humans, but this velociraptor-inspired robot would win the race for the kill. https://gizmodo.com/terrifying-wildcat-military-robot-can-hunt-down-any-hum-1441085189 Developed by researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), the Raptor is outfitted with carbon-fiber running…

Tech News Eric Limer May 29

These Are The World’s Weirdest Birds

There are almost 10,000 bird species flying the skies, roaming the lands, and diving the waters of our planet. Some of them are pretty similar to one another, perhaps because the two species diverged only relatively recently. But some of them are so unique you won’t believe they’re not made up. The species listed below…

Biology Jason G. Goldman Apr 22

Cool photos of Raptors firing missiles from their hidden weapons bays

I like these old photosof F-22 Raptors firing AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles from their hidden weapons bay. Especially the way this one curves looking for its targets, photographed from the top at the firing range over Point Mugu, California. The ones belowshow the very first time that a Raptor fired an air-to-air missile. Check out as…

Sploid Jesus Diaz Mar 3

The Navy’s Next Gen Fighter Jets Will Heal Themselves

The F-35 Lightning and F-22 Raptor fifth generation fighters are among the most technologically advanced aircraft in history but the fact that they’re barely out of testing (more than can be said about their Russian and Chinese counterparts) doesn’t mean the US military isn’t already designing an even better sixth generation. These next gen war-fighters…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 9

Meet the F-22 That Thinks It’s a Rocket

The F-22 has had more than its fair share of problems, but when it isn’t crashing or suffocating its pilots it’s a sight to behold. Here’s some footage of one at today’s Melborne Air Show going for a vertical climb that makes it look like it had wanted to be a rocket when it grew…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 3

When dinosaurs team up with lasers, you’re basically screwed

This is my favorite scene from the Roger Corman film Raptor — which is basically an ultra-cheap Jurassic Park rip-off starring Eric Roberts and a bunch of people you’ve never heard of. In this scene, a researcher working on a project to breed dinosaurs has lost sight of the mission — so he has to…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Dec 6

These Badass Multifuntion Scissors Could Save Your Life One Day

Instead of incorporating a useless pair of tiny scissors into a multi-tool, Leatherman has used a pair of industrial-looking snips as the base for its new Raptor tool. Designed for medics and rescue personnel, the Raptor incorporates a strap cutter, a carbide glass breaker, a ring cutter, a wrench, and a ruler into a pair…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 21

Elon Says Starship Megarocket Could Perform First Orbital Flight in November

SpaceX Starship Prototype Belches Superhot Debris, Causes Literal Dumpster Fire

Europe May Hire SpaceX Now That Russian Rockets Are Unavailable

SpaceX Performs Limited Static Fire Test of Starship Booster, Avoids Explosion

Elon Musk’s Plan to Send a Million Colonists to Mars by 2050 Is Pure Delusion

Ahead of Jurassic World Dominion, Here’s a Guide to Dino Encounters at Universal’s Islands of Adventure

Elon Musk Frantically Warns Employees of Potential SpaceX Bankruptcy

SpaceX’s Starship Prototype Explodes in Fourth Failed Test

Cocaine Hippos, A New Mexico Raptor, and One Weird Cat: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

SpaceX Just Passed a Major Milestone on Its Mission to Mars

Video: The invisible F-22 Raptor flying on its way to bomb ISIS in Syria

Cool photos of the F-22 refueling at night on its way to Syria

The F-22 Is Finally Seeing Action After Seven Years

This Terrifying Robo-Raptor Will Hunt You Down at 29 MPH

These Are The World’s Weirdest Birds

Cool photos of Raptors firing missiles from their hidden weapons bays

The Navy’s Next Gen Fighter Jets Will Heal Themselves

Meet the F-22 That Thinks It’s a Rocket

When dinosaurs team up with lasers, you’re basically screwed

These Badass Multifuntion Scissors Could Save Your Life One Day

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