June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... Starships to transport them there. He also asserts that, in the next 10 years, SpaceX will build 1000 reusable Dragon crew spacecraft (100 vehicles per year) at the company’s plant in Texas. SpaceX plans to send spaceships with...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
...ía. In April 2022 López-Alegría and three other Axiom astronauts (each paying $155 million) travelled on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the ISS for a 17-day mission. As a start-up, Axiom Space has established its credibility in a short period...
October 2023
Space architecture on Earth
... to launch from a sea-borne converted barge in the Yellow Sea, since emulated by the commercial Jielong 3 or Smart Dragon, which launched 14 satellites from there in 2022. Wenchang cut the first sod in 2023 for the new...
13 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... and steering the complex away from space junk. The Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft could do limited reboosts of the lab’s altitude, if required, but only the Russian Progress logistics freighter...
29 June 2015
SpaceX Falcon 9 failure: will launch markets and manned spaceflight be affected?
... reminded that risk is the name of the game in space. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was carrying an unmanned Dragon cargo vehicle when it disintegrated shortlt after launch on Sunday, June 28. This was the first such launch...
05 February 2016
SpaceX' Ambitious Plans Discussed at Commercial Space Transportation Conference
... are still on schedule to begin in 2017. Shotwell said the company is planning an in-flight abort test of the Crew Dragon spacecraft before the end of this year, where the vehicle uses its thrusters to separate from a Falcon...
