June 2019
Does the speed of light change with time?
... understanding of the universe? In a year’s time the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) is scheduled to fly aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). The goal of ACES, put simply, is to build a better clock - but...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... and take eight years to complete. Flight tests may begin in 2020. This rocket may be a direct competitor to Falcon 9. What happens in a decade? The main problem facing commercial launch providers is ambiguity surrounding prices offered by SpaceX...
05 February 2016
SpaceX' Ambitious Plans Discussed at Commercial Space Transportation Conference
... launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center that SpaceX is leasing. Work to renovate the pad to support Falcon Heavy and crewed Falcon 9 launches is wrapping up, Shotwell said. “We have completed and activated Launch Complex 39A,” she said...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
...among US and European commercial launch providers, making 21 Falcon-family flights. Although it failed to reach its target ...orders for its New Glenn rocket which, like SpaceX’s Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy line, is partially reusable. Meanwhile, as NASA ...
28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
... would launch on a Dragon 2 crew spacecraft using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The...after the NASA crewed mission to the space station using the Falcon 9/Dragon 2 spacecraft. The mission will not be making a ...
03 June 2016
Elon Musk: Mars mission architecture to be unveiled in September
...interest from customers. He addressed the development delays of the Falcon Heavy, which was originally scheduled to launch a few ... as we can,” he said, referring to the June 2015 Falcon 9 launch vehicle that halted launches for nearly six months. ...
