First SpaceX Crew Launch Slips to May 2018, More Likely Late 2018 Says NASA OIG Report

By Mike Killian, on December 13th, 2016

File photo, SpaceX launch of their Cargo Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. The company is developing a crew version of their Dragon too, but in comments this week confirmed they won’t be launching anyone on one for NASA until at least May 2018. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace

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SpaceX Exercises Caution and Keeps CRS-5 Grounded Until At Least Jan. 6, 2015

By Mike Killian, on December 18th, 2014

SpaceX CRS-5 Dragon launch to ISS is now expected to fly NET Jan. 6, 2015. File Photo: John Studwell / AmericaSpace

SpaceX is NO GO to launch a Falcon-9 booster with their unmanned Dragon cargo ship on the company’s fifth commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA this Friday, […]

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SpaceX and ORBCOMM NO GO for Sunday OG2 Launch Pending Further Analysis of Payload Health

By Mike Killian, on June 13th, 2014

An OG2 satellite preparing for testing ahead of launch. Photo Credit: Sierra Nevada Corp.

The next SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, one which will (hopefully) deliver the first six of 17 next-generation commercial telecommunications satellites (identified as OG2) to an elliptical low-Earth orbit for customer ORBCOMM, has been delayed again to give ORBCOMM more […]

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NASA's RBSP Launch Delayed 24 Hours

By Mike Killian, on August 19th, 2012
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The launch of NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) has been delayed 24-hours to give engineers time to verify whether or not an anomalous engine condition detected on another launch vehicle is present on the rocket that will launch the RBSP spacecraft later this week.

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