23 April 2021
NASA's SpaceX Crew-2 heads to the ISS in a reused rocket and capsule
... for the first time. The Crew Dragon spacecraft separated from the Falcon 9 upper stage as scheduled 12 minutes after launch. Meanwhile SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 first stage, which incorporates nine Merlin engines that can generate...
01 December 2021
SpaceX risks bankruptcy due to Raptor problems, says Musk
...space company has already launched over 1,800 satellites using its Falcon 9 rockets, and has many more to go, but Musk...fly Starship, which means we then can’t fly Starlink Satellite V2 (Falcon has neither the volume *nor* the mass to orbit needed for ...
31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
... metallic asteroid of the same name. Flying on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket in July, Psyche will fly 450 million kilometres to give...exploration has a helping hand in with its suite of Falcon rockets, the company is also pushing hard with the ...
01 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest
...OIG issues report on future SpaceX collaboration after the Falcon 9 launch failure. A NASA Office of Inspector ...missions. The report comes on the one-year anniversary of the Falcon 9 launch failure that had destroyed the Dragon spacecraft, with ...
29 March 2018
Rocket Owners’ Workshop Manual
... missing. More surprisingly, given the heavy emphasis towards American rocketry, is the omission of the SpaceX Falcon series, particularly the Falcon 9, which has been established as a commercial launch vehicle since December 2013. The two main...
20 January 2020
SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft
... escape demonstration of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. This was the final major flight ... SpaceX facilities in Florida and begin the recovery effort of the Falcon 9, which broke apart as planned. “The past few days ...
