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Apple’s Secret Satellites Could Mean Trouble for ISPs

It’s no surprise that Apple has secret teams working on secret projects. Over the years, we’ve heard of Apple Cars, Apple AR Headsets—you name it. Now, a Bloomberg report says the latest “secret” team is working on satellites that could potentially beam data to devices sometime in the next five years. According to Bloomberg, Apple…

Tech News Victoria Song

Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages for SpaceX and Tesla

Elon Musk just deleted the Facebook pages for his companies SpaceX and Tesla in the wake of backlash against the social media company this week. And it’s a really bad sign for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. SpaceX had over 2.6 million likes on Facebook before it was ordered taken down by the billionaire founder. Tesla…

Social Media Matt Novak

Putin Nukes Florida in New Animated Video Showing Russia’s Futuristic Weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual address to the country’s Federal Assembly today, showing off some impressive new weapons in the process. One of the concept videos even showed a nuclear strike using multiple warheads against the United States. The video depicts Florida, to be exact—the site of President Trump’s private club in Palm…

Tech News Matt Novak

This SpaceX Rocket Landing Looks Downright Divine

SpaceX just released some stunning launch photos of Falcon 9’s return to flight on January 14. The private space company grounded it’s rockets for months while it investigated the cause of the September explosion of its Falcon 9 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Eventually concluding that a helium tank caused the issue, Space X rescheduled…

Tech News Sidney Fussell

Tech Gods Arrive to Kneel at Trump’s Throne

Some of technology’s most prominent leaders and CEOs have made the pilgrimage from the Tesla-lined streets of Silicon Valley to the slightly more civilized New York City to bow at the feet of the very smart and good looking Supreme Leader-elect of the United States, Donald J. Trump. https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-and-peter-thiel-attempt-handshake-high-fiv-1790108515 Some highlights include Tesla and SpaceX…

Tech News William Turton

Barack Obama Is Stoked About Mars

Barack Obama is really pumped about getting humans to Mars. Obama is traveling to Pittsburgh this week for the science and technology focused White House Frontiers Conference. Writing on CNN, the president re-declared his love for space, and announced that the US has partnered with private companies in order to get humans to Mars by…

Space & Spaceflight William Turton

Elon Musk: Die For Me

Today, noted space cadet (in every sense of the phrase) Elon Musk revealed his plan to colonize Mars. He also basically told us to prepare to die for him. Cool idea, Elon! “The risk of fatality will be high,” Musk told the audience in Guadalajara, Mexico, of the SpaceX mission to the Red Planet. “There’s…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Elon Musk Is Always Late

Elon Musk, innovation bad boy and guy who recently blew up Mark Zuckerberg’s expensive satellite, is always late. Today, he was 25 minutes late to his own event about colonizing Mars. Nice going, asshole! This isn’t the fist time the rich electric car guy has been late, as a quick review of Twitter demonstrates. And…

Tech News William Turton

Here’s the First Video Showing SpaceX’s Rocket Exploding

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded in Cape Canaveral today. It was carrying Facebook’s $95 million satellite that was going to beam Internet to poor parts of the world as part of the company’s Internet.org project. Here’s the first video of the insane explosion:

Tech News William Turton

Mark Zuckerberg is ‘Deeply Disappointed’ SpaceX Blew Up His $95 Million Satellite

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded in Cape Canaveral this morning. On board was Facebook’s Internet.org satellite, which experts estimated cost $95 million. In a post on Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was “deeply disappointed.” From Zuck’s post: As I’m here in Africa, I’m deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX’s launch failure destroyed our satellite…

Social Media William Turton

SpaceX Just Landed a Rocket on a Drone Ship

Minutes after a smooth launch of its Dragon spacecraft this afternoon, SpaceX hit a long-standing, elusive goal: It neatly landed the Falcon 9 rocket that had launched the Dragon right down on a drone ship like it was no big deal. https://gizmodo.com/watch-spacex-send-an-expandable-space-house-to-the-iss-1769720689 SpaceX has been sending Falcon 9s to land on the ocean barge—named “Of…

Tech News Ria Misra

Watch SpaceX Launch an Expandable Space House to the ISS—and Then Land the Rocket on a Drone Barge

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is making its first cargo trip back to the International Space Station (ISS) since its June attempt ended unexpectedly with the ship exploding itself, and its cargo, in mid-air. Watch today’s launch happen live right here at 4:43 p.m. (EDT). Don’t be late! The CRS-8 Dragon will be hauling 7,000 pounds worth…

Tech News Ria Misra

Watch SpaceX’s Fifth Attempt to Launch Its Falcon 9 Rocket Live, Which Will Make You Question the Very Nature of Reality [Updated]

For the fifth time in just over a week, SpaceX is trying to launch its Falcon 9 Rocket. Am I stuck in a timeloop? Is any of this real? Am I here? Are you? SpaceX attributed the first four scrubbed launches to problems with their liquid oxygen system, heavy winds, and a boat straying too…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Watch SpaceX Try—for the Fourth Time—to Launch Its Falcon 9 Rocket

SpaceX is making its fourth attempt in less than a week at getting its new Falcon 9 rocket launched. Will it finally make it up? Let’s see! (UPDATE: No, it won’t—the launch was scrubbed yet again, details below.) The launch was never supposed to be the hard part for this Falcon 9—this launch is supposed…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Watch As SpaceX Tries To Launch SES-9 For The Third Time

SpaceX’s SES-9 mission is slated to launch later today at 6:46pm from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The mission has been scrubbed twice already, so maybe the third time is the charm? https://gizmodo.com/watch-falcon-9-rocket-which-even-spacex-thinks-will-cr-1760867899 The company noted that they’re set to try another launch attempt tonight, but noted that they’re watching upper level wind speeds. To recap,…

Tech News Andrew Liptak

Watch the Falcon 9 Rocket (Which Even SpaceX Thinks Will Crash) Launch Live

Join us to watch live as SpaceX attempts to launch and land its Falcon 9 Rocket—a launch for which even the company itself says, “a successful landing is not expected.” Oh dear. (Update: With less than two minutes to spare, SpaceX scrubbed the launch for today—scroll down for the details.) This is the second attempt…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

SpaceX, Orbital ATK, and Sierra Nevada All Just Booked Space Taxi Contracts with NASA

NASA announced that it has booked three private companies to ferry supplies up to the International Space Station through the next eight years—and the new contracts will allow them to add one new astronaut to their roster. Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada, and SpaceX were all contracted for six missions each, though no specific missions have…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra

Relive the Majesty of the Historic Falcon Landing With Gratuitous Guitar Shredding

Did you know you were waiting for an epic supercut of SpaceX’s historic Falcon 9 launch and landing, complete with a suspenseful soundtrack and a victorious cheering scene that looks like it was ripped straight out of The Martian? Probably not, but SpaceX has delivered! At this point, you’ve certainly heard that SpaceX made history…

Tech News Maddie Stone

It Looks Like We’ve Got Ourselves a Good Old-Fashioned Hyperloop Build-Off

When Elon Musk published his plans for the ultra-high speed Hyperloop transit system almost exactly two years ago, he said he had no intention of building it. This spring, he changed his mind. Now, at least two independent groups are planning to have Hyperloop tracks underway next year. It’s not exactly a competition yet, but…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Last Night’s Routine Rocket Launch Was Thankfully Routine

Last night saw the launch of a resupply mission to the ISS atop a Russian Progress rocket — a pretty routine event (as far as firing things into low-earth orbit will ever be routine), but an important one given recent events. Thankfully, it seems like everything went fine and nothing exploded this time around. Carrying…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills

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Apple’s Secret Satellites Could Mean Trouble for ISPs

Elon Musk Deletes Facebook Pages for SpaceX and Tesla

Putin Nukes Florida in New Animated Video Showing Russia’s Futuristic Weapons

This SpaceX Rocket Landing Looks Downright Divine