Tag: SpaceX
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Viasat confirms SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will launch next-gen broadband satellite
SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off Feb. 6 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now Viasat announced Thursday that a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch a next-generation broadband satellite from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center some time between 2020 and 2022, joining Arianespace and…
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SpaceX is reportedly looking for a $500M loan — and a few good Seattle baristas
An artist’s conception shows SpaceX’s BFR in flight. (SpaceX Illustration) Bloomberg News is quoting unnamed sources as saying that SpaceX is seeking to borrow $500 million in the leveraged loan market with Goldman Sachs’ help. Today’s report said that Goldman Sachs Group is leading the talks with potential investors this week. Neither Goldman Sachs nor…
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SpaceX lines up five launches to close out 2018
SpaceX’s launch manifest for the remainder of 2018 is beginning to take shape. The company has five launches remaining on its schedule for the year. Executing all of them would take SpaceX’s 2018 launch total to 22 – surpassing the launch provider’s previous record of 18 launches in a single year. The next mission on…
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Israel’s first mission to the moon – to launch on a Falcon 9 – delayed a few weeks
In the history of spaceflight, three nations have successfully landed a spacecraft on the surface of the moon. Israel hopes to be the fourth, as SpaceIL prepares their robotic lander to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceIL noted late on Wednesday that the mission has been delayed – albeit by only a couple…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches with SAOCOM 1A and nails first West Coast landing
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the first West Coast return-to-launch-site mission Sunday. The launch, whose primary mission was to deploy Argentina’s SAOCOM 1A radar imaging satellite, took place from Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4E at 19:22 Pacific Time (02:22 UTC on Monday). Falcon’s first stage successfully touched down at the nearby…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches with SAOCOM 1A and nails first West Coast landing
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the first West Coast return-to-launch-site mission Sunday. The launch, whose primary mission was to deploy Argentina’s SAOCOM 1A radar imaging satellite, took place from Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4E at 19:22 Pacific Time (02:22 UTC on Monday). Falcon’s first stage successfully touched down at the nearby…
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Sonic-boom UFO show! SpaceX launches satellite, lands rocket booster in California
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti tweeted out this picture of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s contrail, glowing in Southern California’s skies after sunset. “Nope, definitely not aliens,” Garcetti wrote. (@MayorOfLA via Twitter) SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket executed its first on-land touchdown on the West Coast tonight after sending Argentina’s SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit, putting…
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Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner are being developed to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA. (SpaceX / Boeing Illustrations) NASA says we’ll have to wait until 2019 to see the first orbital tests of the space taxis that are being built by SpaceX and Boeing for trips to…
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SpaceX conducts static fire test ahead of SAOCOM-1A mission, first west coast RTLS
SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket conducted its Static Fire test on Tuesday, ahead of is its next launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base – set for the weekend. This launch will be the second reflight of a Block 5 Falcon 9 first stage, core B1048. The flight will also include the first west coast Return…
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Thirty years after Return To Flight from Challenger, Commercial Crew strives for culture of safety
Thirty years ago this weekend, after a two and a half year stand down and an extremely difficult external- and self-examination of a lack of safety within the program, NASA succeeded in returning the Space Shuttle fleet to flight following the devastating loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and her seven-member crew on the STS-51L…