17 January 2016
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully, Though First Stage Landing Fails
... as we touched down on the droneship,” he said. “Unfortunately we are not standing upright on the droneship at the moment.” Elon Musk, SpaceX founder and CEO later tweeted that it was “definitely harder to land on a ship. ...A leg lockout didn...
05 February 2016
SpaceX' Ambitious Plans Discussed at Commercial Space Transportation Conference
..., although Shotwell did not announce a more detailed schedule for the first launch. On January 30th, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, said that the vehicle “is supposed to launch toward the end of this year...
12 April 2016
SpaceX booster back in port
... engines multiple times and then attempt to launch it for a second time, possibly as soon as June, according to Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO.
14 August 2016
Sixth successful landing for Space X rocket
... on its promise, as it has yet to re-use any of its rockets. This key goal is still in sight however as Elon Musk tweeted in June of this year, that they hope for a first re-flight of the fourth rocket that landed...
02 September 2016
Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 satellite explode during testing
... 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
... 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...
