SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed the latest official photo of the company’s Raptor engine in action and indicated that a major technical issue with vibration appears to have been solved, hopefully paving the way for Starhopper’s first untethered flights. Partly due to Musk’s own involvement in the program, SpaceX’s propulsion development team have struggled […]
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SpaceX continues to reap the benefits of strong market demand for Falcon 9’s combination of affordability and performance with an announcement that the company has won its sixth launch contract in 2019. Announced on July 3rd by Space Norway and several other stakeholders, a SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch an identical pair of […]
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SpaceX and CEO Elon Musk have released videos offering an extended look at the unexpectedly dramatic conditions Falcon payload fairings are subjected to during atmospheric reentry, as well as the first successful landing in GO Ms. Tree’s net. Captured via an onboard GoPro camera during Falcon Heavy’s June 25th launch of the USAF Space Test […]
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According to comments made by US Air Force officials prior to SpaceX’s latest Falcon Heavy launch, the payload assigned to the military’s first fully-certified Falcon Heavy has been swapped with another, although the mission’s late-2020 launch target remains relatively unchanged. This new information comes on the heels of the June 25th launch of Space Test […]
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Speaking at 2019’s Asia-Pacific Satellite (APSAT) Conference, SpaceX Vice President of Commercial Sales Jonathan Hofeller – squeezed into a sea of breaking-news updates – announced that the company plans to launch the same Falcon 9 Block 5 booster for the fifth (or sixth) time by the end of 2019. Just an add-on at the end […]
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Aside from center core B1057’s unfortunate demise, Falcon Heavy’s third launch was a huge success, placing two dozen satellites into three separate orbits over the course of nearly four hours. Described as SpaceX’s most challenging launch ever, successfully completing the mission – known as Space Test Program-2 – has hopefully helped to guarantee that the […]
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While on the East Coast for Falcon Heavy’s third launch, also described as SpaceX’s most difficult launch yet, CEO Elon Musk dropped by the company’s Florida Starship campus and recorded a small acceptance speech for his 2019 Stephen Hawking Medal. On the very same day, at the very same site, a lone Raptor was effectively […]
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Some 12 hours after Falcon Heavy successfully completed what Elon Musk described as the SpaceX’s “most difficult launch ever”, the CEO took to Twitter to offer some insight into the mission’s only sad note – an unsuccessful center core recovery attempt. The second Falcon Heavy Block 5 center core built by SpaceX, B1057 suffered an […]
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After more than 18 months of concerted effort, SpaceX has successfully caught a Falcon fairing in Mr. Steven’s (now GO Ms. Tree) net for the first time ever, a massive milestone along the road to payload fairing reusability. Falcon Heavy lifted off for the third time around 11:30 pm EDT (03:30 UTC) on June 24th, […]
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SpaceX has soared through the first major half of its third Falcon Heavy launch, heading through ignition, liftoff, recovery, and orbital insertion with relative ease. However, Falcon Heavy center core B1057 sadly suffered an unknown anomaly during landing, causing it to miss the drone ship. Sadly, this marks the third time that a Falcon Heavy […]
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