Neowin News Feed for: Landing

Bad day: Falcon 9 crashes upon landing after a record 23 flights, Polaris Dawn postponed

Martin Hodás — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:36:01 +0000

Today, SpaceX experienced a series of bad luck. Weather stopped a historic crewed mission from launching, and another Falcon 9 rocket crashed upon landing, halting the third planned flight, too. Read more...

Watch the splashdown landing of SpaceX's Super Heavy booster tracked from the Gulf of Mexico

Martin Hodás — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 08:16:01 +0000

SpaceX has released the external view of the first-ever successful splashdown landing of the Super Heavy booster. Images show the landing burn of 13 Raptor engines and a slow touchdown on the water. Read more...

SpaceX almost lands Starship successfully on the third attempt

Paul Hill — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:12:01 +0000

SpaceX has finally managed to land a Starship rocket, however, several minutes after, the vehicle exploded due to a fire which managed to reach the propellant which subsequently ignited. Read more...

"Mars, here we come!!" exclaims Elon Musk despite explosive ending to Starship's test flight

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 06:56:01 +0000

Starship SN8 executed an almost perfect high-altitude flight test before plummeting towards the earth at a velocity greater than the intended threshold. SpaceX and Musk extolled the test as a success. Read more...

Facebook completes its second solar-powered drone test flight, lands successfully this time

Stergios Georgopoulos — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:00:02 +0000

Moving on from last year's crash while landing, Facebook's Aquila drone has completed its second voyage successfully. Data collected from the flight will help the team further improve the design. Read more...

Xbox 360 to stream Mars rover landing Monday

John Callaham — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:17:12 +0000

Microsoft will offer Xbox 360 owners a way to check out the "live" streaming video from the scheduled landing of the Mars rover Curiosity on Monday via a special Xbox Live dashboard. Read more...

Google backs private Moon landing

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:59:33 +0000

Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon. The competition to send a robot craft to the Moon is being run with the... Read more...

Linux set for Mars landing

Darren Bolton — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:59:17 +0000

Single workstation controls destiny of space probe The control centre is ready and a big Christmas celebration is expected when, or if, the UK's most ambitious scientific project, the Beagle 2 Mars... Read more...

NASA announces Mars probe landing sites

Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:02:52 +0000

Space scientists have chosen two sites on Mars where twin robot vehicles will look for evidence that a warmer, wetter red planet might once have harbored life. Two spacecraft carrying the rovers will be launched... Read more...