Officials have issued a warning that residents in California’s Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties may hear one or more sonic booms roughly eight minutes after SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. The loud, thunder-like sounds are expected as the rocket’s first stage makes its high-speed return to Earth and…
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the company plans to launch the next test flight of its massive Starship rocket in “about three weeks.” The announcement came via a post on X (formerly Twitter) on July 14, 2025. If the timeline holds, it would mark the 10th test flight of Starship, the…
File photo: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla BENGALURU: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and his three Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission crewmates are expected to undock from International Space Station (ISS) at 4.35 pm IST on July 14, according to current plans. If everything goes as planned, Crew Dragon – nicknamed “Grace” – is expected to splash down off…
In a major strategic move, Elon Musk’s aerospace firm SpaceX has invested $2 billion in his artificial intelligence startup, xAI. The merger of xAI with social media platform X earlier this year valued the combined company at $113 billion, according to reports. From the orbital ambitions of Starlink and SpaceX to the on-the-ground deployment of…
Dror-1 satellite launched (Image credits: Israel War Room) Israel’s new national communications satellite, Dror-1, was successfully launched into space early Sunday morning from Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch facility in Florida.The Dror-1 satellite, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), weighs 4.5 tons, spans 17.8 meters, and is equipped with the largest transmission and reception antennas ever…
Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and his Axiom-4 crewmates are expected to return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on July 14, NASA announced on Thursday. The Axiom-4 mission, launched by SpaceX on June 25 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marked a significant milestone in India’s growing participation in international…
Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant to prepare humans for life on Mars. The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mars Desert Research Station, or MDRS, invited CNBC to shadow one of its analog crews on a…
Elon Musk has once again drawn attention to his long-term vision for space exploration by calling for the retirement of the International Space Station (ISS). On July 3, 2025, the SpaceX CEO reposted a tweet outlining the space-related allocations in President Donald Trump’s latest tax bill, which included $1.25 billion for the ISS. Musk shared…
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Jim Lo Scalzo | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla shares have dropped 7% from…
In the early hours of June 28, after a day of severe weather warnings and storm activity across Central Florida, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The launch, which occurred at 12:26 a.m. from Launch Complex 40, followed hours of anticipation as meteorologists issued…
