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Musk’s SpaceX asks Taiwanese suppliers to move production abroad

The US company has requested multiple satellite component manufacturers to produce outside Taiwan, sources say.

6 Nov 2024 - 11:00AM

Chinese rocket firm is selling tickets to space on Taobao for US$280,000 each

26 Oct 2024 - 6:00PM

Chinese aerospace firm offers space tourists US$210,000 rocket rides from 2027

25 Oct 2024 - 6:59PMvideocam

C919 tour gives students a glimpse of China’s ‘road to take-off’

Students shown the final assembly of China’s C919 home-grown passenger jet as its manufacturing base in Shanghai.

24 Oct 2024 - 5:00PM

A tour group during a tour of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China’s manufacturing base in Pudong. Photo: Mandy Zuo

Why are international airlines cutting flights to China?

Fewer flights to China by Western airlines seen as a reflection of reduced demand for business travel amid economic slowdown.

20 Oct 2024 - 4:00PMvideocam

Mentor or rival? China takes notes from Brazilian giant Embraer as C919 soars

Aviation exchanges are expected as President Xi Jinping visits Brazil next month.

7 Oct 2024 - 11:06PMvideocam

Boeing’s space and defence chief exits in new CEO’s first executive move

Colbert’s departure is part of a management shake-up as Boeing bids to restore public confidence and repair its battered image.

21 Sep 2024 - 3:17PM

Boeing’s new CEO announced the departure of the company’s space and defence chief as it bids to restructure in the wake of a series of mishaps. File photo: Reuters

China’s home-grown C919 reaches new heights with flight to ‘roof of the world’

C919 ‘smoothly landed’ at one of the highest airports in the world in western China on Thursday ahead of a series of ‘research and development test flights’.

25 Sep 2024 - 6:20PM

Historic SpaceX private astronaut mission splashes down off Florida

The team had managed to hit a peak altitude of 1400km, the furthest humans have travelled from Earth since the Apollo missions to the Moon.

15 Sep 2024 - 4:51PMvideocam

Tech billionaire pulls off first private spacewalk high above Earth

Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is one of several wealthy passengers increasingly plunking down huge sums for rides aboard private rockets.

12 Sep 2024 - 8:08PM

US fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman peeks out to space from a hatch structure. Photo: AFP

SpaceX launches billionaire to conduct 1st private spacewalk

Considered one of the riskiest parts of space flight, spacewalks have been done only by professional astronauts – until now.

11 Sep 2024 - 12:53AM

SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Launch Complex 39A of Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

Got US$600,000? Virgin Galactic looks for space tourists in Asia

Virgin Galactic is now discreetly soliciting interest in Asia for its space tourism flights, which will restart on new spaceships in 2026

9 Sep 2024 - 7:15AM

Elon Musk plans to send uncrewed Starships to Mars in 2 years

The billionaire said the mission will be unmanned to test the reliability of landing intact on the red planet.

8 Sep 2024 - 10:47AMvideocam

Boeing’s troubled Starliner spaceship lands back on Earth without crew

Starliner’s smooth return was a relief for the aviation giant’s space ambitions after Nasa deemed it too risky to send astronauts home on it.

7 Sep 2024 - 1:12PM

Boeing’s Starliner approaching the landing site at White Sands Space Harbor in White Sands, New Mexico, without the astronauts it was supposed to be carrying. Photo: AFP

Nasa explains away strange noise heard by astronaut in Boeing’s Starliner

‘A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by Nasa astronaut Butch Wilmore … has stopped,’ the space agency said.

3 Sep 2024 - 8:33AMvideocam

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft docked to the International Space Station’s Harmony module forward port. Photo: Nasa / TNS

Musk’s SpaceX tightens grip on Nasa by bringing Boeing crew home from ISS

Nasa’s reliance on SpaceX grows as Boeing’s Starliner faces setbacks, highlighting the firm’s dominance in US space missions and satellite launches, while sparking concerns over Musk’s sway on US foreign policy.

27 Aug 2024 - 6:42PM

SpaceX delays launch of first-ever private spacewalk mission

Historic launch of Polaris Dawn mission with all-civilian crew is delayed by at least a day to check a ‘ground-side helium leak’.

27 Aug 2024 - 2:13PM

SpaceX to bring Boeing’s Starliner astronauts home next year, Nasa says

In a blow to Boeing’s space programme, what was expected to be an eight-day mission to the International Space Station will last for months.

25 Aug 2024 - 9:23AM

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner is shown docked to the International Space Station. Image: Boeing via TNS

Nasa weighs SpaceX rescue for stranded Boeing Starliner crew

The astronauts may have to be brought home in a rival Crew Dragon capsule in February, in what would be a major embarrassment for Boeing.

8 Aug 2024 - 7:08AM

Nasa astronauts stuck on ISS confident Boeing Starliner will bring them home

Thruster issues and helium leaks on Boeing capsule have kept two Americans in space far longer than planned.

11 Jul 2024 - 11:07AM

Private Chinese rocket explodes after accidental launch

1 Jul 2024 - 4:46PM

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China’s Space Pioneer blames massive rocket-test crash on structural failure

Company says kerosene-liquid oxygen-propelled rocket launched unexpectedly and crashed in hills, with no casualties.

1 Jul 2024 - 3:46PM

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The rocket crashes in hills outside Gongyi in Henan province on Sunday afternoon. Photo: Weibo

SpaceX wins US$843 million to help Nasa destroy International Space Station

The firm will build a vehicle capable of pushing the orbiting facility back down to Earth’s atmosphere when it’s time to retire the station.

27 Jun 2024 - 7:40AMvideocam

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23 October, 2024