Tag: SpaceX
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk makes the big pitch for his decades-long plan to colonize Mars
SpaceX founder Elon Musk presents his vision for sending settlers to Mars. (Credit: SpaceX) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made some ambitious sales pitches in his career, but today’s big reveal about his plan to transport a million settlers to Mars over the next few decades has to be the topper. MORE COVERAGE: A million…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk announces vision for colonizing Mars
Elon Musk presents his Mars colonization vision at the International Astronautical Congress on Tuesday in Guadalajara, Mexico. Credit: Tim Dodd/Spaceflight Now/www.timdoddphotography.com SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk on Tuesday outlined an ambition to send humans to Mars with methane-fueled reusable spaceships and the largest rocket ever built, an effort he said will likely require government support…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk tweets sneak peeks at interplanetary transport system for Mars
SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engine undergoes its first test firing. (Credit: Elon Musk via Twitter) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In advance of this week’s big reveal, SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, is dropping hints about the scale of his plans to send colonists to Mars. Musk is scheduled to talk about what used to be known as the…
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SpaceX says probe into Falcon 9 launch pad blast points to helium system leak
A video stream from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida shows smoke rising from the SpaceX launch pad blast on Sept. 1. (Credit: NASA) SpaceX says an investigation into the launch pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload has turned up evidence of a “large breach” in the supercooled helium…
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Falcon 9 rocket explosion traced to upper stage helium system
Credit: US Launch Report The investigation into a dramatic Falcon 9 rocket explosion earlier this month at Cape Canaveral has determined a “large breach” in the launcher’s upper stage helium pressurization system led to the destruction of the booster and its $200 million satellite payload, SpaceX said Friday. Officials said returning to flight “safely and…
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Falcon 9 rocket explosion traced to upper stage helium system
Credit: US Launch Report The investigation into a dramatic Falcon 9 rocket explosion earlier this month at Cape Canaveral has determined a “large breach” in the launcher’s upper stage helium pressurization system led to the destruction of the booster and its $200 million satellite payload, SpaceX said Friday. Officials said returning to flight “safely and…
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SpaceX continuing to press toward Amos-6 failure root cause
SpaceX is still working towards a root cause into the failure of its Falcon 9 during a Static Fire test. The failure, which resulted in the destruction of the rocket and the Amos-6 satellite, originated in the second stage LOX tank’s helium pressurization system, although the specific cause of the anomaly is not yet fully…
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NASA to have limited role in SpaceX’s planned Mars campaign
Artist’s concept of a Dragon spacecraft at Mars. Credit: SpaceX Expertise, input and advice from seasoned NASA engineers will improve SpaceX’s chances of nailing the first commercial landing on Mars as soon as late 2018, a senior space agency official said Wednesday, but Elon Musk’s space transport company will likely seek more independence from U.S.…
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NASA to have limited role in SpaceX’s planned Mars campaign
Artist’s concept of a Dragon spacecraft at Mars. Credit: SpaceX Expertise, input and advice from seasoned NASA engineers will improve SpaceX’s chances of nailing the first commercial landing on Mars as soon as late 2018, a senior space agency official said Wednesday, but Elon Musk’s space transport company will likely seek more independence from U.S.…
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Containment of Vandenberg wildfire begins as hundreds of firefighters battle
Updated at 12:05 a.m. EDT with latest acreage and containment numbers A CalFire S-2T makes a Phos-Chek drop on the Vandenberg fire. Credit: Santa Barbara County Fire Dept. United Launch Alliance technicians were allowed to return to the Atlas 5 pad Tuesday as firefighters continued to wage air and ground campaigns against the wildfire burning…