Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, left, and Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.Getty ImagesAn Amazon shareholder lawsuit says the company snubbed SpaceX for valuable satellite launch contracts because of Jeff Bezos' personal rivalry with Elon Musk, who has taunted his fellow billionaire's space ambitions for years.Cleveland Bakers and...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on top is seen after sunset at Launch Complex 39A ahead of the launch of the Crew-7 mission.Joel Kowsky / NASASpaceX launched four people to the International Space Station from Florida as Elon Musk's company begins its 11th human spaceflight mission...
A Falcon 9 rocket is displayed outside the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) headquarters on January 28, 2021 in Hawthorne, California.Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty ImagesThe U.S. Department of Justice sued SpaceX on Thursday, alleging Elon Musk's space company discriminated in its hiring practices against refugees and...
An artist's rendering of an I6 satellite in orbit.InmarsatA second Viasat communications satellite is malfunctioning in orbit, this time from the fleet of recently acquired U.K.-based Inmarsat, the company said on Thursday.The I6 F2 satellite, which Inmarsat launched in February, suffered a failure with its power system while climbing in...
The shadow of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is seen on the moon's surface.ISROThe list is grim reading: Stuck, failed, missed, failed, failed, stuck, failed, crashed, missed, crashed, crashed.Those were the fate of the Soviet Union's first 11 attempts before successfully landing a spacecraft on the moon, according to a database...
Viasat offices are shown at the company's headquarters in Carlsbad, California, March 9, 2022.Mike Blake | ReutersViasat reported a jump in quarterly revenue Wednesday, as the company continues to investigate its recent satellite malfunction and explores options to make up for some of the service it expected to add...