Cape Canaveral, Florida - NASA on Thursday evening launched a space probe called OSIRIS-Rex to chase down a dark, potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu. The probe will take a sample of the asteroid and -- in a US space first -- bring the sample back to Earth. "NASA did it again!" Jim Green, Planetary Science Division director at NASA, said at a post-launch … [Read more...]
SpaceX’s failure could really set the company back
The satellite was, in part, leased by Facebook as part of its project to deliver internet access to Sub-Saharan Africa, marking the social network's first foray into space-based internet delivery, in a partnership with the satellite company Eutelsat. "As I'm here in Africa, I'm deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX's... failure destroyed our satellite that would have … [Read more...]