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SpaceX Starship rocket test postponed after booster issue

The spacecraft was scheduled to take off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in Texas. However, computers flagged a booster issue just 23 mins before liftoff.

Digantara, Pixxel are inspired by Elon Musk. This will drive India Inc. space dreams

While Digantara Aerospace launched the world's first commercial satellite, Pixxel became the first private company in India to have satellites that allow observation of the Earth in over 150 bands.

SpaceX Starship explodes mid-flight setting back Elon Musk’s rocket programme, flights diverted

Musk later shared a video of the debris field with the caption: 'Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!’

Pixxel to launch India’s first hyperspectral private satellite network with SpaceX, eyes $19B market

The launch is scheduled to take place at Vandenberg Space Force Base at around 10:45 AM Pacific Time Tuesday - just after midnight the next day in India - subject to final approvals.

ISRO satellite GSAT-N2 rides Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 to orbit, SpaceX’s 1st launch for India

The communications satellite aims to enhance broadband internet & in-flight connectivity across Indian subcontinent. ISRO's commercial payload arm tied up with SpaceX this January.

From billionaire Elon Musk to Fox News’ Pete Hegseth as defence secretary — a look at Trump 2.0

Trump has announced several nominees for his incoming administration, prominent among those are Musk and Ramaswamy who will head the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency.

SpaceX ‘forcefully rejects’ claims of violation of federal regulations during rocket launches

The Federal Aviation Administration has asserted that the Elon Musk-led company failed to follow regulations ahead of 2 launches in 2023, and proposed fines of up to $633,000.

Musk announces launch of first Starships to Mars by 2026, first eco-friendly rocket

The SpaceX chief took to X(formerly Twitter) to announce that if landing of uncrewed flights goes well, he will send people to the red planet in the next four years.

‘This is the last straw,’ says Elon Musk as he moves SpaceX, X HQs from California to Texas

Musk's longstanding feud with California has been triggered by a new state law that bans teachers from telling families about student gender identity changes.

India to use SpaceX rocket for the first time to launch communications satellite

Musk, who is the chief executive of SpaceX, wants to bring his Starlink satellite broadband to India and is also discussing an investment proposal for a Tesla factory for electric vehicles.

On Camera

7 die daily on Mumbai trains due to overcrowding, trespassing. PAC’s 2017 solutions ignored

It’s extremely disturbing that thousands of precious lives are lost on the Mumbai Suburban network every year. Especially since causes and solutions are well-known.

Three yrs since launch, govt-backed e-commerce network ONDC is a tortoise running with the hares

Built as a novel concept to ‘democratise’ e-commerce in India, ONDC has seen limited success in specific pockets. But it’s still an emerging player in a highly competitive market.

India’s 1st-of-its-kind INS Arnala set to guard coastal waters against submarine intrusions

New Delhi: The Indian Navy is set to commission INS Arnala, the country’s first Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), at Visakhapatnam dockyard on...

India-Pakistan terms of engagement: H-word, M-word & the Trump hyphenation

Return to hyphenation is dreaded because our successive govts have laboured for three decades to rid us of what we see as the equivalence big powers used to draw between us and Pakistan. Three things follow.