June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... understanding of the universe? In a year’s time the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) is scheduled to fly aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). The goal of ACES, put simply, is to build a better clock - but...
April 2025
Lego’s tribute to NASA’s SLS and Artemis
... only a few times per year. Today, Florida sees a SpaceX Falcon launch most weeks of the year, and sometimes twice in the same...single launch”. Some commentators have suggested that the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch vehicle could replace the SLS, but this...
17 January 2025
Investigation launched after SpaceX Spaceship 7 explodes
... 20 cubesats and 14 microsats to orbit for its customers across 17 countries. Then, in the early hours of Wednesday morning a Falcon 9 rocket launched a dual-lunar landing mission from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... and take eight years to complete. Flight tests may begin in 2020. This rocket may be a direct competitor to Falcon 9. What happens in a decade? The main problem facing commercial launch providers is ambiguity surrounding prices offered by SpaceX...
05 February 2016
SpaceX' Ambitious Plans Discussed at Commercial Space Transportation Conference
... launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center that SpaceX is leasing. Work to renovate the pad to support Falcon Heavy and crewed Falcon 9 launches is wrapping up, Shotwell said. “We have completed and activated Launch Complex 39A,” she said...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...among US and European commercial launch providers, making 21 Falcon-family flights. Although it failed to reach its target ...orders for its New Glenn rocket which, like SpaceX’s Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy line, is partially reusable. Meanwhile, as NASA ...
