SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said the company was low on liquid oxygen for rocket launches. Liquid oxygen is also used to treat COVID-19 patients in hospitals. "We certainly are going to make sure ...

Demand for oxygen to treat COVID-19 patients is spiking during the latest pandemic surge, leaving liquid oxygen in short supply for other uses, including water purification and rocket launches. As ...

One consequence of the coronavirus pandemic is showing up in an unlikely place: the space industry. A summer surge in COVID-19 patients is diverting liquid oxygen from rocket launch pads to hospitals, ...

SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell warned that a liquid oxygen shortage could affect her company's launch schedule. Credit: Thomas Kimmell COLORADO SPRINGS — A widespread shortage of liquid ...

The ongoing reverberations from the COVID-19 pandemic are continuing to make themselves felt in the most unlikely of places: spaceflight. On Friday, NASA took the unexpected step to ground a September ...

LOX pump in action. Click here for a video (Windows Media 9, 840K) Mojave, CA, Thursday, October 21, 2004: XCOR Aerospace announced today it has completed another significant milestone in its pump-fed ...

NASA announced on Aug. 27 that it would delay the launch of a satellite this September because of the shortages of liquid oxygen or LOX. These shortages are said to be related to the ongoing pandemic.

AN article or product regarded as a scientific curiosity by one generation not infrequently becomes a commonplace of the next. The vacuum flask used by Dewar to preserve very cold liquids at normal ...

SPACE COAST. WESH 2’S KELSI THORUD EXPLAINS. REPORTER: THIS WEEK A SPACE X EXECUTIVE SAID THEIR COMPANYS I THE LATEST TO FEEL THE IMPACT OF THE LIQUID OXYGEN SHORTAGE. DOES THAT SURPRISE YOU? >> NOT ...

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer is asking residents to conserve water because liquid oxygen, used to treat the community’s water supply, is needed to treat the surge of Covid-19 patients in the community.

North Korean state media cited a space official saying preliminary analysis showed issues with a new liquid oxygen and petrol engine.