01 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest
...OIG issues report on future SpaceX collaboration after the Falcon 9 launch failure. A NASA Office of Inspector ...missions. The report comes on the one-year anniversary of the Falcon 9 launch failure that had destroyed the Dragon spacecraft, with ...
29 March 2018
Rocket Owners’ Workshop Manual
... missing. More surprisingly, given the heavy emphasis towards American rocketry, is the omission of the SpaceX Falcon series, particularly the Falcon 9, which has been established as a commercial launch vehicle since December 2013. The two main...
20 January 2020
SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft
... escape demonstration of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. This was the final major flight ... SpaceX facilities in Florida and begin the recovery effort of the Falcon 9, which broke apart as planned. “The past few days ...
18 April 2020
SpaceX announces date of its first crewed flight to ISS
...SpaceX and NASA are targeting May 27 for Falcon 9’s launch of Crew Dragon’s second demonstration mission...the United States since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Crew Dragon spacecraft that will support Demo-2 are...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... 16 carbon atoms per molecule. The amount of kerosene in three Falcon 9 rockets is roughly 400 tonnes (the kerosene used has a ... launch, out of 60 satellites the records show that two Falcon 9 DEB (debris) objects were also in orbit. Fortunately they...
02 August 2020
Crew Dragon are on their way home
... for recovery. Behnken and Hurley arrived at the orbiting laboratory on May 31, following a successful launch on May 30 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During their 63 days aboard the station, Behnken and...
