SMC Enters into Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with SpaceX, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center “The Space and Missile Systems Center has signed a Cooperative Research and Development […]
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SpaceX Performs Long Duration Test of F9-R
SpaceX Falcon 9-Reusable 1st Stage Firing, SpaceRef Business “SpaceX has released a video of the 1st long duration firing of their new Falcon 9-Reusable (F9-R) rocket, an advanced prototype for […]
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Image: SpaceX Flight Hardware
SpaceX Octaweb, OnOrbit “In the background – the harness that holds a ring of eight Merlin 1D engines in a ring of fire, with a 9th in the middle.”
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SpaceX Closer to USAF Certification
USAF, SpaceX Close To Agreement On Launch Certification Plan, Aviation Week “Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the U.S. Air Force are “days away” from agreeing on the details of a […]
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SpaceX Testing Heads For New Mexico
Governor Martinez Announces New Spaceport America Tenant SpaceX to Flight Test Reusable Rocket “Grasshopper” “Governor Susana Martinez today announced that Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, has signed a three-year […]
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A Bigger Leap for Grasshoppper
Video: Grasshopper 250m Test Flight “SpaceX’s Grasshopper flies 820 feet, tripling its March 7th leap. Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to […]
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SpaceX Likes Texas
SpaceX official testifies before House committee, Brownsville Herald “At Thursday’s committee hearing, Caryn Schenewerk, counsel and director of government affairs for SpaceX, testified that Texas is high on the list […]
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Cowboy Rocketship
Grasshopper Hovverslam (with Video and Johnny Cash) “SpaceX’s Grasshopper doubled its highest leap to date to rise 24 stories or 80.1 meters (262.8 feet) today, hovering for approximately 34 seconds […]
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Dragon Update
SpaceX’s Dragon Carrying NASA Cargo Resupplies Space Station “The Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft was berthed to the International Space Station at 8:56 a.m. EST Sunday. The delivery […]
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Dragon Launch Update
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches But Anomaly Detected Which Delayed Solar Array Deployment, SpaceRef Business UPDATED at 3:50 p.m. EST and includes launch video and audio file of post-launch media briefing: […]