Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon delivers final orbital boost to the ISS before return (AI-generated) The International Space Station received another small lift late last week, continuing a routine but essential process that keeps the orbiting laboratory at the right height above Earth. On Friday, January 23, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft attached to the station fired…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: Among Silicon Valley elites where tech titans have largely aligned with President Donald Trump’s purportedly race-driven MAGA vision, Indian-American venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has been an outlier. Exceptional as his opposition to Trump has been, the billionaire tech savant has set off a political and cultural firestorm this week with…
Crew 11 (Image credit Nasa) Nasa astronauts aboard the International Space Station will return “no earlier than 5 pm ET on January 14,” after a medical issue led the crew to end their mission ahead of schedule, Nasa said in a statement, adding that the crew member was ‘stable’.In a post on X, the American…
Crew-11 mission astronauts wave as they depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building en route to launch complex LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 1, 2025. From L/R are Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, NASA astronaut and mission commander Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut…
Most people never think about where satellites sit once they reach space. They simply assume they stay put, doing their job far above the atmosphere. But for companies operating thousands of spacecraft, orbit height is not a fixed choice. It is a constant calculation. SpaceX has now decided to shift that balance. In 2026, Starlink…