28 July 2021
Bezos offers $2 billion in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract
... lunar landers as originally intended, the Agency chose to confer a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar head start to SpaceX. That decision broke the mold of NASA’s successful commercial space programs by putting an end to meaningful competition for...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
...on the shoulders of consumer technology and other industries. Both SpaceX’s rockets and Spire CubeSats run on Linux - which is ... data in the way we dream of. With each launch, SpaceX gets closer to a truly reusable rocket. There are Instagram pictures...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
... the space plane will take flight via Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket; a first for the OTV. Built...the OTV will hitch a lift on a Falcon 9 rocket, showing that SpaceX is surpassing its private space company roots to multitask as a military launch ...
19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
...set to become the first NASA science mission to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida and although the launch was originally scheduled..., it has been delayed for a month to allow SpaceX additional time to prepare the rocket for the mission. ...
11 August 2021
Canadian firm to launch advertising satellite in space
...set to deliver 12 x 6U CubeSats to low-Earth orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rideshare in June 2022; it is anticipated that the ... start of many more advertising billboards in space. Although SpaceX will not play a direct role in the mission and...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
...be launching the first propellant tanker to geostationary orbit via a SpaceX rocket in late 2022 or early 2023. Known as “Tanker...spacecraft. Tenzing was launched on 30th June, 2021 via a SpaceX Falcon 9, and is also being used as an orbital laboratory...
