If you’re a fan of taking to the skies in titles like Microsoft Flight Sim or Elite Dangerous, then ditch the mouse and keyboard combo and opt for a proper set of flight sticks. Thrustmaster just announced the new Sol-R 1 and Sol-R 2 series, designed specifically with space-oriented flight in mind. The sticks are available … Read more
SpaceX launched its mighty Starship rocket for the eighth time last week. The mission was a bit of mixed bag, with the team successfully catching the first-stage Super Heavy booster on its return to the launchpad, but losing the Starship spacecraft in a midair explosion minutes after stage separation. The Elon Musk-led spaceflight company is … Read more
SpaceX was set to perform another test of the world’s most powerful rocket last night, but the launch was scrubbed in the final minute before takeoff. Now the eighth test flight of the Starship will have to wait for at least a day as engineers check on problems with the rocket. Starship was scheduled to … Read more
SpaceX has confirmed that it’s targeting Friday, February 28, for the eighth test of the Starship, the most powerful rocket ever to fly. It comes a day after SpaceX chief Elon Musk revealed that the Starship “flies Friday.” The company has shared a targeted launch time for the test of the rocket, which will eventually … Read more
SpaceX has been testing its rocket hardware ahead of the eighth flight of its Starship megarocket. The Elon Musk-led company shared dramatic footage and photos showing the 33 Raptor engines on the first-stage Super Heavy booster firing up while fixed to the ground. “The extended firing tested new hardware and cycled the six Raptor engines … Read more
Activity at SpaceX’s Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas, suggests that the spaceflight company is moving rapidly toward the eighth test of its mighty Starship rocket, which comprises the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the upper-stage Starship spacecraft. SpaceX has released two sets of images from the site in recent days, the first one showing … Read more
Blue Origin successfully performed its 29th New Shepard flight and 14th payload mission from Launch Site One in West Texas on Tuesday. While most of the recent New Shepard flights have had paying passengers aboard, this one carried science payloads rather than people. Let’s look at the NS-29 Lunar-G flight from liftoff to landing. 🌕 … Read more
Boom Supersonic is just hours away from performing the first supersonic flight of its XB-1 test plane. A successful test will take it a big step toward its goal of launching supersonic passenger flights before the end of this decade. Boom Supersonic will live stream the first supersonic flight of Boom’s demonstrator aircraft, which is … Read more
Flight Risk review: Mark Wahlberg thriller crashes and burns “A rinky-dink B-movie howler, bad without ascending to the delirious heights of bad taste you might expect from the pairing of Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg” Pros Solid thriller premise Some unintentional laughs Cons Wahlberg is ridiculous and miscast The action is choppy and ineptly staged … Read more
SpaceX has made an incredible catch of its Super Heavy Booster during the seventh test flight of its Starship rocket, but has lost the vehicle. Launched at 5:37 p.m. ET today, Thursday January 16, from SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas, this is only the second time that the enormous booster of the Starship has … Read more
Space watchers had been gearing up for an exciting evening tonight as SpaceX was set to launch its mighty Starship on its seventh test flight to date. The hope was to launch the massive rocket and have it deploy a payload for the first time, as well as facing the daunting challenge of trying to … Read more
Good morning and buckle up, folks: we’re leaping onto the rumor mill today. As more and more news about the Nintendo Switch 2 emerges as its anticipated announcement approaches, a video game podcaster named NateTheHate has claimed that both Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 are coming to the Switch 2 and … Read more
SpaceX is targeting Monday, January 13, for the seventh test flight of its Starship megarocket. The 120-meter-vehicle will lift off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, as it did on its six previous test flights. SpaceX will live stream the launch — the first Starship flight since November — from its X account, … Read more
Blue Origin is targeting New Glenn’s inaugural mission (NG-1) for no earlier than Friday, January 10, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, the company announced on Monday. The three-hour launch window opens at 1 a.m. ET on Friday (10 p.m. PT on Thursday night). 🚀 Launch Alert | We’re targeting … Read more
Starship | Sixth Flight Test SpaceX has shared a cinematic video (above) of the Starship rocket’s sixth test flight, which took place in November. The presentation is effectively a teaser for the megarocket’s seventh test flight, which is expected to take place in the next week, though an official announcement regarding timing has yet to … Read more