02 September 2016
Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 satellite explode during testing
... the Amos-6 communications satellite payload for the Israeli satellite operator Spacecom. According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's twitter, the explosion originated around the Falcon 9's upper state liquid oxygen tank while it was being...
29 March 2017
SpaceX set to reuse rocket for the first time on Friday
... to a two hour window on Friday 31st March starting around 5.39pm EDT. The vision of SpaceX founder Elon Musk is to reuse rockets just like airplanes. At present although the cost of a new airliner is about the same as a Falcon...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
... again this week, but this time around, the space plane will take flight via Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket; a first for the OTV. Built by Boeing, the X-37B launches vertically strapped to a rocket...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... mission by putting a lander on the lunar surface by 31 March? Someone else with his eye on the Moon is Elon Musk, who earlier last year announced plans to launch a commercial flight carrying two crew members to the Moon...
