After what is set to be a more than 8-month lull, SpaceX’s California launch facilities are scheduled to support a Falcon 9 launch no earlier than February 2020. Speaking at 2019’s World Satellite Business Week, Raúl Kulichevsky – a director at the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Argentina’s national space agency – confirmed that […]
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In the midst of the 2019 World Satellite Business Week, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell and SES Satellites CEO Steve Collar announced the latest launch contracts in a long and fruitful relationship. No earlier than 2021, SpaceX will launch all seven O3b mPOWER communications satellites on two separate Falcon 9 missions, placing […]
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Hurricane Dorian is currently growing into a potentially devastating Atlantic storm some 1,200mi (~2000km) off the Florida Coast and local spaceflight facilities – including SpaceX’s launch pads and Starship campus – are at high risk. As of the latest storm advisories, Hurricane Dorian is likely to grow into a Category 3 or 4 storm prior […]
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SpaceX has finally received clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct the next (and last) test hop of the Starhopper prototype at it’s test facility in Boca Chica, Texas. The permit – initially issued on June 21st – changes the constraints of the next hop for Starhopper and raises the amount of insurance liability […]
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Launched on July 25th, SpaceX’s CRS-18 Cargo Dragon successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) a few days later, delivering a major piece of space station hardware in its unpressurized trunk. Known as International Docking Adapter 3 (IDA-3), the docking port will quite literally open the door for future commercial missions to the space […]
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SpaceX and NASA teams continue to prepare for Crew Dragon’s inaugural crewed launch (Demo-2) to the International Space Station (ISS) slated to possibly – but not likely – occur by year’s end. On Tuesday, an official NASA Twitter account published images of teams from SpaceX and the space agency performing a full rehearsal of crew […]
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A new generation of space race is currently underway, but this time it’s not a race to determine which country will reach orbit first, but rather which spaceflight company will successfully reach orbit first with the world’s second generation of super-heavy launch vehicles (SHLVs). SpaceX, United Launch Alliance (ULA), Blue Origin, and NASA all have […]
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While a great deal of work remains before SpaceX and NASA are ready to set a date for Crew Dragon’s inaugural astronaut launch (Demo-2) both teams continue to actively prepare for the milestone mission. Most recently, NASA has published photos detailing a critical (and literal) dress rehearsal with astronauts Col. Bob Behnken and Col. Doug […]
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The most prominent launcher of small carbon composite rockets, Rocket Lab, announced plans on Tuesday to recover the first stage of their Electron rocket and eventually reuse the boosters on future launches. In short, CEO Peter Beck very humbly stated that he would have to eat his hat during the ~30-minute presentation, owing to the […]
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In a recent blog post, NASA made it clear that changes happening to leadership within the agency – specifically within the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate – are impacting the timelines to return astronauts to the International Space Station(ISS) from US soil. Agency conflicts are just the latest of several setbacks that have impacted the […]
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