Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Cancels Debut Rocket Launch Minutes Before Liftoff
Jeff Bezos' space tourism company Blue Origin canceled the first launch of its massive new rocket early Monday, citing technical problems. The two-stage, 320-foot-long reusable New Glenn rocket will lift off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida during a three-hour window starting at 1 a.m. ET Monday. It was […]
Toyota announces move into rocket launches at CES 2025 with $45M investment
Toyota Motor Corporation is investing about $45 million to enter the space industry, and insists it's not just “one car company” considering a rocket launch. On Monday, during CES 2025, a major technology trade show in Las Vegas that brings together the latest equipment, Chairman Akio Toyoda announced that the automaker will invest $44.4 million, […]
Toyota plans to make over $44 million investment in rocket company
See what's being clicked on FoxBusiness.com. Toyota's mobility subsidiary will invest $44.3 million in the Japanese rocket company. Rocket company Interstellar Technologies (IST) will receive Toyota's multi-million dollar investment “by the first close” of its Series F financing, the rocket company announced Tuesday. The company also announced a “business partnership” with Toyota Motor Corporation. IST […]
Hamas Fires Rocket at Humanitarian Crossing
The Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas fired rockets on Saturday, attacking the Erez crossing, a border crossing that is a major route for humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. A red alert was sounded at 4:51 p.m. in Netif Hasala, a town near the northern border of Gaza that was attacked by Hamas on October […]
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin New Glenn rocket cleared to launch: FAA
This was Blue Origin's third manned spaceflight, with six people on board for the first flight. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Glenn rocket is heading into space after receiving clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA on Friday issued a Part 450 commercial space launch license to Blue Origin, authorizing the first launch […]
LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau reveals space aspirations while taking in SpaceX rocket launch
LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau was among those who traveled to Texas last week to meet SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. DeChambeau said that as SpaceX scientists were trying to push the rocket to its maximum potential to learn more about heat shields and which shields and configurations would perform best, DeChambeau said President-elect Donald Trump, […]
Kai Trump Posts Behind-the-Scenes Video from SpaceX Rocket Launch
President-elect Donald Trump's granddaughter Kai Trump posted a behind-the-scenes video of Elon Musk's SpaceX's recent Starship rocket launch in Texas. on video Posted Donald Trump Jr.'s daughter posted a video to X of herself on a private jet heading to a rocket launch with friends, which also featured her grandfather, father, and Musk. After the […]
Federal judge sides with SpaceX after environmental group tried to stop rocket launches
A federal judge ruled that Space supported. During static fire testing and launch, SpaceX uses The Deluge System sprays water on the exhaust of a rocket engine to absorb heat and prevent it from exploding during takeoff. SpaceX said the system uses “clean drinking water” for testing, but Texas-based environmental groups argue the process poses […]
Can Blue Origin and Rocket Lab ever compete against SpaceX?
Blue Originnew glenThe rocket isOn track for first launchBy the end of 2024. The rocket is named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, and will be used by its first major customer, AST SpaceMobile, to launch its BlueBird satellites in 2025 and 2026, making it possible to carry mobile devices from […]
IDF Kills Head of Islamic Jihad Rocket Unit in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Friday that it had killed the head of a rocket unit of the Iranian-backed terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which operates in the Gaza Strip and took part in the October 7 attack. The IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA, Shin Bet, and Shabak) reported in a […]