02 September 2016
Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 satellite explode during testing
... 3 with the Amos-6 communications satellite payload for the Israeli satellite operator Spacecom. According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's twitter, the explosion originated around the Falcon 9's upper state liquid oxygen tank while it was being...
29 March 2017
SpaceX set to reuse rocket for the first time on Friday
... back to a two hour window on Friday 31st March starting around 5.39pm EDT. The vision of SpaceX founder Elon Musk is to reuse rockets just like airplanes. At present although the cost of a new airliner is about the same as a Falcon...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
... launch again this week, but this time around, the space plane will take flight via Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket; a first for the OTV. Built by Boeing, the X-37B launches vertically strapped to a rocket...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... their mission by putting a lander on the lunar surface by 31 March? Someone else with his eye on the Moon is Elon Musk, who earlier last year announced plans to launch a commercial flight carrying two crew members to the Moon...
04 December 2018
SpaceX sets two new highs in its latest launch
... in the water. “Plan is to dry them out and launch again. Nothing wrong with a little swim,” noted Elon Musk via Twitter. Meanwhile, up in space, backed by 200,000 pounds of thrust in the vacuum of space, the second engine...
15 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
..., likely on Atlas 5 rockets, but after meeting with five launch providers "in Japan, Europe - and also obviously Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos," said SNC's co-owner and president Erin Ozmen, SNC chose ULA largely for...
