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US-based satellite company ViaSat is teaming up with Boeing to create and deliver three new satellites that will deliver high-speed internet to remote areas around the world. The partnership was announced yesterday, months before the company is scheduled to launch its previous generation satellite, ViaSat-2, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Merritt Island, Nov 15 (EFE/EPA).- Private aerospace company SpaceX sent its first manned taxi mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday.Launched for NASA in its first full taxi flight for a private company, the capsule carries four astronauts: Americans Shannon Walker, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover, and Japan's Soichi Noguchi. (Camera: CJ GUNTHER). SHOT LIST: THE SPACEX CREW MEMBERS, NASA ASTRONAUTS VICTOR GLOVER, MIKE HOPKINS, SHANNON WALKER AND JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY (JAXA) ASTRONAUT SOICHI NOGUCHI EXIT THE NEIL A. ARMSTRONG OPERATIONS AND CHECKOUT BUILDING ENROUTE TO THE FALCON 9 ROCKET AT LAUNCH COMPLEX 39A AT THE JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, ON MERRITT ISLAND, CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, US AND THE LAUNCH OF CREW-1 MISSION ON SPACEX'S FALCON 9 ROCKET TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, AT THE JOHN F. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, ON MERRITT ISLAND, CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, US.
SpaceX carries out the third test launch of Starship, the world's most powerful rocket that is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon and Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars. Lift-off from the company's base in southeast Texas came around 8:25 am local time (1325 GMT) and was carried on a webcast viewed by more than 1.5 million people. IMAGES
Le documentaire revient sur les premiers pilotes, ingénieurs et scientifiques noirs à devenir astronautes dans le cadre de la course à l'espace.
SpaceX's 'Starship' rocket, the largest ever built, takes off from the space company's Texas launch site. CEO Elon Musk hopes the ship will one day colonize Mars and NASA is awaiting a modified version to land humans on the Moon. The first test in April ended in a spectacular explosion over the Gulf of Mexico. IMAGES