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Hyperloop company to test its system by year end

Hyperloop One, a Los Angeles company working to develop the futuristic transportation technology, has raised $80 million in financing.
Technology • 11 May 16

SpaceX successfully lands rocket for second time

US space exploration company SpaceX has successfully landed a Falcon 9 rocket on an ocean platform after it successfully blasted off from Florida and put a communications satellite into orbit.
Science • 06 May 16

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News • 09 Apr 16

SpaceX succeeds in historic rocket launch, landing

SpaceX successfully landed its powerful Falcon 9 rocket in an upright position, a historic first in the company's bid to make rockets as reusable as planes.
News • 22 Dec 15

SpaceX tests astronaut emergency escape system

A SpaceX passenger spaceship made a quick debut test flight on today, shooting itself off a Florida launch pad to demonstrate a key emergency escape system.
News • 06 May 15

SpaceX rocket recovery test fails

The American company Space X says its experiment to bring part of its Falcon rocket down to a soft landing on a floating sea platform has failed.
News • 10 Jan 15

Boeing and SpaceX to fly NASA astronauts to ISS

NASA is to build commercially owned and operated "space taxis" to fly astronauts to the International Space Station in partnership with Boeing and SpaceX to, ending US dependence on Russia for rides, US Senator Bill Nelson said.
News • 16 Sep 14

SpaceX rocket launches for space station delivery

A privately-owned, unmanned Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo capsule successfully blasted off from Cape Canaveral for the International Space Station.
News • 08 Oct 12

Dragon capsule splashes down in Pacific

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, world's first commercial space cargo carrier, returned to Earth this afternoon, ending its revolutionary voyage to the International Space Station with an old-fashioned splashdown in the Pacific.
News • 31 May 12

US firm aborts space capsule launch at last second

US private firm SpaceX has aborted its launch of the Dragon capsule toward the ISS at the last second.
News • 21 May 12

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