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Elon Musk Shares a Video of Failed SpaceX Landings
Elon Musk shows off the troubled history of the Falcon 9. Many people were impressed to see the successful landing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. However, it’s important to know just how many trials it took before SpaceX could get it right. Elon Musk seems to be on the same…
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SpaceX Made History by Successfully Launching and Landing a Re-flight Rocket
It is a momentous event for SpaceX as well as the future of space flight as they have successfully launched a Falcon 9 re-flight rocket and have also landed it back safely. This is the very first time in history that the same rocket has been used on two separate…
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SpaceX Preparing to Fly Reused Rocket for the First Time
Most people believe that recycling is a good thing, especially if it means saving millions of dollars on materials and labor. This is one of the reasons why the impending launch of SpaceX’ rocket on March 30th is getting a lot of attention because it will verify whether SpaceX’ Falcon…
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SpaceX’s Rocket Fueling Practices Pose a Concern for NASA
Even though SpaceX has made great progress when it comes to the reliability of its rockets and the safety of astronauts, it would appear that there are still a few NASA members who doubt the company’s fueling practices. To clarify, we’re talking about Falcon 9 rockets and the fact that…
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SpaceX Hopes to Resume Launches by November
Following the recent incident where a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX’s future launch schedule has been placed in jeopardy, especially considering they planned the relaunch of a retrieved booster. Despite this, according to SpaceX president and COO, Gwynne Shotwell, the company hopes that…
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Mark Zuckerberg “Deeply Disappointed” at SpaceX Rocket Explosion
Following the explosion on Tuesday morning (30th August) which claimed a SpaceX rocket which was set to launch a Facebook satellite into space, Mark Zuckerberg was expressed his disappointment over the incident. The Falcon 9 rocket was carrying the Amos-6 satellite, which was designed to transmit internet signals from orbit.…
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Explosion Shakes Cape Canaveral As Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad
On Thursday morning one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets exploded on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral’s Air Force station during a routine test-firing in preparation for Saturday’s delivery of a communications satellite into orbit. The blast was large enough to shake buildings over a mile away with a huge…
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See SpaceX Test Fire Landed Falcon 9 Rocket
With a re-launch of a landed rocket planned later this year, SpaceX is gearing up to prove that their rockets truly are re-usable. The boosters will have to go through a number of tests to ensure they are fit for another launch and to this end recently finished test-firing one…
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SpaceX First Rocket Re-Launch To Take Place in Fall
For a while now SpaceX have been landing rockets, in the last year alone transforming the unprecedented act into a routine they perform on every launch they do with an ever improving rate of success. Despite the build up of landed rockets in their hangars, however, they are yet to…
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SpaceX Make it Two in a Row!
It’s nothing new that SpaceX can land rockets, they’ve done it before both on land and at sea. Today they took those ambitions one step further, with part of the JCSAT-14 launch mission involving an experimental sea landing with the Falcon 9 rocket travelling at far higher velocities than previous…
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SpaceX Releases 360-Degree Video of Falcon 9 Landing
SpaceX has always been keen to publicise their rocket landing attempts, with space fans being able to watch them live, in high-resolution and after the event peruse galleries of the landing from almost every angle. Now SpaceX has released a full 360-degree video of the Falcon 9 rocket landing on…
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SpaceX Planning Ambitious Next Rocket Landing
SpaceX is a company that is never satisfied with what they have already achieved and are always wishing to push their accomplishments one step further. Already managing to successfully land their Falcon 9 rockets on land and at sea, SpaceX now plans to push their sea landing capabilities one step…
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Elon Musk Says Sea Landed Falcon 9 Could Relaunch Soon
The Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX successfully landed at sea yesterday could be the first of its kind to be relaunched into space revealed Elon Musk at a press conference held by NASA. The first rocket that was landed successfully back in December was kept in storage instead of reused…
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SpaceX Successfully Land Falcon 9 Rocket on Drone Ship
After a number of tries, SpaceX has finally achieved their goal of landing a Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on one of their drone ships at sea. The landing took place following the launch that marked the first ISS supply mission undertaken by SpaceX since the accident last year, which…
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SpaceX to Resume Supplying the ISS
The date of SpaceX’s next resupply mission to the ISS has been announced by NASA to take place on April 8th. SpaceX will be delivering the cargo onboard one of their Falcon 9 rockets, launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida at around 4:43 PM Eastern Time. This will be the first…
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