10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1 am EST (06:00 GMT) Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A joint effort with the Italian Space Agency, ...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
.... This is hard to explain except for the fact that SpaceX has been unable to raise its two test satellites, TinTin...the first private citizen to fly around the Moon. More importantly, SpaceX’s launch tempo is already slowing, with only nine or 10 ...
08 August 2018
The most reusable and reliable rocket ever?
... fact. Indeed, Andy Lambert, vice president of production for SpaceX has said that perhaps 10 reuses is a more practical target...stage will reach 100 flights is another matter, as apparently SpaceX has plans to phase out the Falcon 9 to concentrate...
28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
...would launch on a Dragon 2 crew spacecraft using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster, from the Kennedy Space Center in ... a press release issued along with the press conference, SpaceX expressed gratitude to NASA for making the Moonshot mission possible....
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... do it.” Elon Musk believes that it can be done, given a suitable Earth-Mars transport system, which his company, SpaceX, is planning to provide. As a result, his presentation was heavy on rockets and spacecraft, light on other key factors which...
08 April 2016
Falcon 9 Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... target but toppled over the ship's deck. Today, SpaceX representatives are confident that the landing will finally be a...the morning of April 10. The landing attempt is part of SpaceX's effort to develop fully and rapidly reusable rockets, technology ...
