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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

SpaceX

Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024, during the Starship Flight 5 test. (SERGIO FLORES / AFP)
October 13, 2024, 6:42 pm
In milestone achievement, SpaceX ‘catches’ megarocket booster after test flight
Elon Musk hails success as ‘science fiction without the fiction part,’ after firm’s years of chasing rapid reusability; NASA seeks to use altered Starship for manned Moon landing
By Agencies
This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, Sept. 12, 2024. (SpaceX via AP)
September 15, 2024, 2:43 pm
Jewish tech billionaire back to Earth after first private spacewalk
SpaceX’s capsule splashes down in Gulf of Mexico carrying entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the 264th person to walk in space
By AP and ToI Staff
This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by Jared Isaacman, September 12, 2024. (SpaceX via AP)
September 13, 2024, 12:39 am
High above the Earth, Jewish tech entrepreneur performs first ever private spacewalk
‘Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world,’ says Jared Isaacman after popping out of capsule to test SpaceX’s new spacesuit
By Marcia Dunn
Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, commander of the maiden Polaris Dawn voyage on the SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft, arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 19, 2024. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
September 10, 2024, 2:46 pm
Billionaire to conduct private spacewalk with Musk’s SpaceX
Tech mogul Jared Isaacman, commanding 4-person Polaris Dawn mission, will become first non-professional astronaut to perform complex mission; won’t say how much he paid for it
By Marcia Dunn
The empty Boeing Starliner capsule sits at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Sept. 6, 2024, after undocking from the International Space Station. (Boeing via AP)
September 7, 2024, 12:36 pm
2 astronauts left behind in space as Boeing capsule deemed unsafe returns to Earth empty
After thruster failures and helium leaks, Boeing insisted extensive testing showed Starliner was safe, but NASA disagreed and booked February flight with SpaceX instead
By Marcia Dunn
In this photo provided by NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024. (NASA via AP)
August 24, 2024, 9:41 pm
NASA says SpaceX to retrieve two astronauts because of risks with Boeing capsule
Having entered orbit for what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams now set to return to Earth only in February
By Marcia Dunn
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is pictured during a visit at the company's electric car plant in Gruenheide near Berlin, eastern Germany, on March 13, 2024 (Odd Andersen/AFP)
June 25, 2024, 8:29 pm
Israel said to eye Elon Musk’s internet services in case of war in north
Full-blown war against Hezbollah may lead to damage to Israeli infrastructure; tech billionaire’s Starlink service already utilized in Gaza, Ukraine
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A photographer prepares to makes photos of SpaceX's mega rocket Starship as it is prepared for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (AP/Eric Gay)
March 17, 2024, 5:01 am
Elon Musk’s SpaceX building spy satellite network for US intel agency, sources say
Space company’s Starshield business unit working under $1.8b contract signed in 2021 with DoD’s National Reconnaissance Office, which manages spy satellites
By Joey Roulette and Marisa Taylor
SpaceX's mega-rocket Starship cuts through clouds and haze on its third test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, March 14, 2024. (Eric Gay/AP)
March 14, 2024, 9:17 pm
SpaceX nearly completes test flight of mega rocket, loses spacecraft near end
Company says contact lost with Starship as it neared Indian Ocean after taking off from Texas, but scientists satisfied with progress
By Marcia Dunn
Elon Musk at the Vivatech technology startups and innovation fair at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, on June 16, 2023. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
September 8, 2023, 4:25 pm
Musk says he stopped Ukraine attack on Russian navy by withholding Starlink internet
Tech billionaire says Kyiv meant to sink fleet; biographer says SpaceX owner was warned by Russian ambassador that Crimea attack would lead to nuclear retaliation
By AFP
People walk past a poster with the picture of Saudi Space Commission astronauts Ali Al-Qarni (L) and Rayyanah Barnawi, of the Axiom Mission 2, at a government-organized viewing party in Riyadh on May 21, 2023. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)
May 22, 2023, 6:36 pm
Private space mission carrying Saudi astronauts docks at ISS
Arriving aboard SpaceX capsule, scientist and fighter pilot become the first two people from the kingdom at the orbital outpost
By AFP
In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Steve Bowen and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi route power cables to prepare for future power system upgrades outside the International Space Station, on April 28, 2023. (NASA via AP)
April 29, 2023, 3:16 pm
UAE’s ‘Sultan of Space’ becomes 1st Arab astronaut to carry out spacewalk
Sultan Alneyadi steps out of the International Space Station in exercise hailed by Abu Dhabi as a ‘milestone’
By AFP
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP)
April 20, 2023, 6:51 pm
SpaceX’s Starship, world’s biggest rocket, explodes during test flight
Elon Musk congratulates team on ‘exciting’ launch despite rocket’s failure to reach orbit, says ‘learned a lot’ for next time
By Patrick Fallon and Chris Lefkow
Illustrative: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, October 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
February 14, 2023, 4:58 am
Saudi Arabia to send its 1st woman into space as kingdom seeks to revamp image
Rayyana Barnawi to fly to International Space Station Station on SpaceX rocket for 10-day mission as Riyadh looks to diversify economy, shake off ultra-conservative reputation
By AFP
The 20cm nanosatellite developed by Tel Aviv University. (Tel Aviv University)
January 4, 2023, 7:50 pm
Israeli quantum communication nanosatellite launched into orbit by SpaceX rocket
The Tel Aviv University 20cm nanosatellite is designed to communicate from space with an optical ground station to help build a network for reliable quantum communication
By Sharon Wrobel
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