11 November 2019
Fourth time rocket reuse for SpaceX mission but concerns still over satellites
...discarded, but with an estimate cost of $6 million, SpaceX has made efforts to reuse this essential part. Even more... negative impact on astronomy. In response to those concerns, SpaceX boss Elon Musk said the company would consider reducing the albedo...
20 January 2020
SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft
... milestone for Crew Dragon.” As part of the test, SpaceX configured Crew Dragon to trigger a launch escape about 1.5 ...be completed prior to NASA astronauts flying the system during SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is working...
16 November 2020
SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISS
...NASA-certified commercial human spacecraft system in history. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission lifted off at 7:27 pm EST Sunday from... Jim Bridenstine. “This is an important mission for NASA, SpaceX and our partners at JAXA, and we look forward to watching...
12 April 2016
SpaceX booster back in port
... Air Force Station in December but roughly half of SpaceX's missions cannot return to land because of their speed... hangar for inspections. If it is in good enough condition, SpaceX hopes to test-fire the booster's nine Merlin engines multiple times...
29 April 2016
SpaceX Announces Plans for Mars Mission.
... system would be used to slow the spacecraft's descent through the Martian atmosphere and to land on the surface. SpaceX and NASA signed an amended agreement on April 25 and 26 respectively, which changes the original schedule to a mission-oriented...
24 May 2019
SpaceX launches first 60 satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation
... releasing each unit on an individual spring-based mechanism, SpaceX literally spun the satellites off the rocket’s upper stage. ...saying only that they will utilise frequencies above 10,000 GHz. SpaceX has indicated that it would need as many as 420 ...
