By Mike Killian, on December 28th, 2015
The first SpaceX Falcon-9 first stage booster to launch payload to space and land back at Cape Canaveral is seen here arriving at the company’s Launch Complex 39A, the historic site of many of NASA’s Apollo and space shuttle missions. The booster will now undergo numerous tests at the launch site where SpaceX […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 21st, 2015
History was made on 21 December 2015, as SpaceX brought the first stage of its Upgraded Falcon 9 back from the edge of space and guided it to a precision landing on solid ground. Photo Credit: SpaceX
Having suffered the catastrophic loss of a Falcon 9 v1.1 booster during first-stage flight on 28 […]
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By Mike Killian, on December 21st, 2015
SpaceX is scheduled to launch their Falcon-9 rocket tonight on its first launch since the loss of CRS-7 last summer. The mission is to deliver 11 OG2 satellites to low-Earth orbit for Orbcomm, but SpaceX has a secondary objective to land the booster’s first stage back at Cape Canaveral minutes after launch, on […]
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By Mike Killian, on December 19th, 2015
Illustration of a SpaceX Falcon-9 booster with its landing legs and hypersonic grid fins deployed for a landing attempt. The company will attempt this feat at Cape Canaveral, for the first time, with launch of the Orbcomm OG-2 mission Sunday evening. Image Credit: SpaceX
Six months after its 19th mission ended in pieces […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 18th, 2015
After several delays SpaceX conducted their standard static test fire at SLC-40 this evening at Cape Canaveral AFS in Florida, paving the way for a NET Sunday launch attempt, which will mark the inaugural flight of the upgraded SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket, previously known informally as the “Full Thrust” (FT) or “v1.2”. Photo Credit: […]
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By Mike Killian, on December 10th, 2015
Elon Musk announced today the updated Return to Flight date for their next Falcon-9 launch, which is now scheduled for nighttime on Dec. 19 to deliver 11 satellites to orbit for Orbcomm. File Photo, Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace
Six months after its 19th mission ended in pieces of falling debris offshore of […]
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By Ben Evans, on December 2nd, 2015
The USAF 45th Space Wing confirmed to AmericaSpace today that SpaceX is in fact seeking FAA approval to land their Falcon-9 booster on solid ground at Cape Canaveral for their Return to Flight mission, which is expected to fly very soon. SpaceX has refused to comment on anything regarding Return to Flight or […]
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By Mike Killian, on October 16th, 2015
The first Orbcomm OG-2 launch with SpaceX in July 2014, with six Orbcomm Generation-2 (OG-2) satellites onboard. SpaceX is primed to return their Falcon-9 rocket to flight with the next set of OG-2 satellites in 6-8 weeks, followed by launch of SES-9 by the end of 2015. Photo Credit: Alan Walters/AmericaSpace
Its been […]
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By Mike Killian, on July 22nd, 2014 Experimental landing legs on the SpaceX Falcon-9 v1.1 rocket. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace
It was only last week that Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) launched the first wave of a next-generation telecommunications satellite fleet to orbit for customer ORBCOMM on the OG-2 mission, but the flight also gave the Hawthorne, Calif.-based aerospace […]
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By Mike Killian, on July 15th, 2014 The Orbital Sciences Antares rocket, thundering away from MARS Pad 0A at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to begin a 17,500 mph chase to catch the International Space Station, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Photo Credit: John Studwell / AmericaSpace
On Sunday, July 13, Orbital Sciences Corporation successfully launched their 22-story-tall Antares rocket on […]
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