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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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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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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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Blue Origin’s New Shepherd Rocket Succeeds in Third Landing
The race for reusable spacecraft is on, and the forerunners of this contest are SpaceX and Blue Origin. SpaceX may have landed their rocket from a far higher altitude, but have never achieved (or attempted) a repeat performance. Meanwhile, Blue Origin’s New Shepherd spacecraft has completed its third takeoff and…
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SpaceX Successfully Land Falcon 9 Rocket
Last night’s Falcon 9 launch was important to SpaceX for a number of reasons. For one, it was the 20th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, but, more importantly, it was its first flight since the incident back in June, where a Falcon 9 rocket exploded shortly after lifting off…
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