A SpaceX Super Heavy booster carrying the Starship spacecraft lifts off on its 11th test flight at the company’s launch pad in Starbase, Texas, last year. Steve Nesius/Reuters Elon Musk is touting SpaceX as humanity’s ticket to Mars. But the company’s pitch to investors for a potentially historic IPO reveals that its main business will…
Lebanon’s health ministry says 31 people were killed by Israeli strikes, while there are no reports of casualties in Israel.
Tertius Zitzke JSE-listed 4Sight Holdings has reported a sharp rise in profits for the first half of its 2026 financial year, powered by its AI solutions. For the six months to 31 August 2025, group revenue climbed 6.8% to R578.7-million from R542-million a year earlier, while operating profit surged 35.7% to R48.3-million. Gross profit rose…
Georgina Rannard Science correspondent Watch: SpaceX Starship completes successful test flight SpaceX has pulled off a successful test flight of its newest generation rocket Starship, reversing a trend of disappointing failures. The world’s largest and most powerful rocket blasted off from Texas just after 18:30 local time (00:30 BST) for a nail-biting 60-minute flight. Parts…
The entrance to the SpaceX rocket launch area in Brownsville, Texas. Veronica Gabriela Cardenas/Reuters US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to streamline federal regulation governing commercial rocket launches, a move that could benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX and other private space ventures. Trump’s order, among other things, directs the US transportation secretary…
An Electron rocket launches the Baby Come Back mission from New Zealand on July 17, 2023. Rocket Lab Rocket Lab stock soared 8% Monday, building on a strong run fueled by space innovation. Shares of the space infrastructure company have nearly doubled over the past two months following a slew of successful launches and a…
The explosion on Thursday morning South African time was caught on camera. Image: TheRocketFuture SpaceX’s massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing late on Wednesday Texas time, the latest in a series of setbacks for billionaire Elon Musk’s Mars rocket programme. The explosion occurred around 11pm local time (Thursday, 6am SAST) while…
