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On Saturday 14 November 2026 at 6:30 PM NZDT, Rocket Lab launched its 100th Electron, "The Mountain God Rises", from Pad A at Mahia, here in New Zealand. That's the same pad that hosted launch

Classic Cosmos NGC 206 is a large stellar association in the Andromeda galaxy, M31, about 2.5 million light-years away. Its bright, blue stars indicate its youth: the youngest massive stars are less than

MAX POWER lights up KSC with skydive, X-70 reveal, and bold CAPEWEEK plans MAX POWER lights up KSC This week NASA hosted its inaugural MAX POWER aerospace expo and air show at Kennedy Space Center, drawing

There is a lot of noise on X at the moment about how to use Grok Bot, how to maximize the token spend, what templates to use and so on and so on. It's just noise. Grok Bot is way more advanced than that.

We're going to the Moon. Not just to visit this time, but to stay. Today I'm launching Moon Life Path: every path to a Moon base, tracked. NASA, Starship HLS, SpaceX, Blue Origin and China are all racing

Relativity Space started as the company that would 3D print whole rockets. Its first rocket reached space on its only flight. Then it changed almost everything. Image: Relativity Space Tim Ellis (ex-Blue

Starship Mars 2026 Mission: Expendable Chance: 85% (no change) Commitment Level: 1% (-24%) Final update, Week 46, in the series tracking odds of at least one uncrewed Starship heading to Mars in the late-2026

Blue Origin is the oldest company in this series, and by far the best funded. Yet its big orbital rocket, New Glenn, has flown just three times. Jeff Bezos founded it in 2000. It is based in Kent, Washington,

Classic Cosmos In this mid-infrared view from Webb's MIRI, the Cat's Head Nebula resembles a cat sitting with its back toward the viewer and a tail extending downward. It is a dust pillar in the Carina

🚀 Spacefarer Update 🚀 Number of people currently in space: 10 Comings and Goings This Week There have been no arrivals or departures this week. Current Space Occupants ISS Expedition 75: 7 spacefarers

Most rocket companies try to get you to orbit. Impulse Space starts after that. Tom Mueller founded it in 2021, a few months after leaving SpaceX. He was SpaceX employee number one on the propulsion side

A spacecraft selfie, taken at a comet. This is Rosetta, just 16 km from comet 67P and 472 million km from home. It was the last shot from Philae's camera before Philae dropped off to try the first ever

I've been having fun with Grok Bot and its Build bot. Last night I described a Starship lander game. Today it's landing on the Moon, crashing on Mars, then nailing it on the second try. 🚀 No game engine,

Building 20 Starships a week with rapid reuse scales past 10,000 launches a year. That's ~27 to 32 flights a day, lifting 1.5M to 2.0M tonnes to orbit. The real puzzle is where all that payload would come

Flight 15 could be the first dual catch: booster back to the tower, then the ship caught by the same tower later in the mission. Here's how I picture the sequence, time-lapsed. The booster gets moved off

One Time for Every World - How I keep time across Earth and Mars, and the date I'm counting down to If you've seen "Today is CSD ..." at the top of my posts and wondered what the number means,

Do I see 6, 7 or 8 new Starship nose cones being built at the same time? This image from today's NASA update.

How to get replaced to your own advantage. Now is the time to buy a long-haul truck - and a humanoid. Remember when I said AI + humanoid robots will eventually replace every job? This is one of those jobs…