On September 18th, local Florida resident Andrew Stoltz happened to be at the exact right place and time to catch a new SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing on the last leg of its journey to Cape Canaveral. Likely the payload fairing that will support one of three upcoming launches, this hardware at least partially symbolizes the […]
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Over the course of Crew Dragon’s ‘Demo-1’ orbital launch debut, SpaceX and NASA coordinated in a multitude of ways to ensure mission success, including cooperative webcasts that covered nearly all of the spacecraft’s major milestones. On September 14th, SpaceX and NASA received the 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding Interactive Program, honoring their combined video, social […]
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As of September 14th, SpaceX has officially broken ground on what will likely be the first orbital-class Starship and Super Heavy launch facilities, coming in the form of an addition to the company’s NASA-leased LC-39A pad at Kennedy Space Center. Based on environmental assessment documents published in August 2019, the modifications SpaceX plans to make […]
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Now that the Tesla Model S has been reported to have broken the impressive record of the Porsche Taycan around the Nürburgring, Elon Musk appears to be entertaining the idea of the next-generation Tesla Roadster breaking the all-time production car track record at the formidable, nearly 13-mile track known as the “Green Hell.” Prior to […]
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According to documents filed with local city and transportation authorities in recent months and cataloged by a few local news outlets and spaceflight fans, SpaceX is preparing to transport its East Coast Starship prototype – known as “Mk2” – as early as later this month. Throughout August 2019, local resident, spaceflight fan, photographer, and cookie-baker […]
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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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On September 14th, South Texas SpaceX technicians lifted Starship Mk1’s third and final tank dome and began to attach it atop the prototype’s steel tank section, this time making use of a new method of integration. This progress comes just two weeks before CEO Elon Musk is expected to present a detailed update on Starship’s […]
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SpaceX has published a highlight reel touting “over 700 tests” of Crew Dragon’s SuperDraco abort thrusters at the same time as the company is about to close a failure investigation into a Dragon capsule’s April explosion, pinned primarily on abort-related hardware. According to a September 6th meeting of NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), SpaceX […]
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First reported by SpaceNews, in attendance at the 2019 World Satellite Business Week in Paris, France, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell says that the company has plans for as many as 24 dedicated Starlink launches in 2020. This news comes less than four months after SpaceX’s inaugural Starlink launch – placing 60 prototype spacecraft […]
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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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