SpaceX’s Grasshopper Takes Giant Leap Towards Reusability with 40 Meter Flight (with two videos) “SpaceX’s Grasshopper took a 12-story leap towards full and rapid rocket reusability in a test flight […]
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DOD Opens Up Launches To Orbital and SpaceX
Lockheed-Boeing Launch Monopoly to Be Ended by Pentagon, Business Week “The U.S. Defense Department plans to open more than a dozen rocket launches to competition, moving to end a monopoly […]
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Video: Musk In-depth Discussion
Elon Musk – the Future of Energy & Transport On November 14 Elon Musk participated in a 90 minute Q&A at the Oxford Martin School with the topic the Future […]
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Does SpaceX Makes Arianespace Nervous?
Citing SpaceX Threat, Lawmakers In France Urge Early Ariane 6 Start, SpaceNews (behind paywall) “French Sen. Bruno Sido said to compare the SpaceX facility with the equivalent manufacturing operation of […]
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Prospects for Commercial Space Continue to Rise
First Outing for SpaceX, Editorial, New York Times “SpaceX currently has a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to carry out at least 11 more cargo resupply missions through 2016. Another […]
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SpaceX Dragon Safe Splashdown
Dragon Spacecraft Returns to Earth in First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to Space Station, SpaceX ““This historic mission signifies the restoration of America’s ability to deliver and return critical space […]
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Coordinated Fact Avoidance Among Romney Space Advisors
Mitt Romney: Lost in Space …, opinion, Jim Kohlenberger (former Obama OSTP official), Space News “In 2008, the U.S. Government Accountability Office had identified poor planning around the looming space […]
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Another Dragon Joins the ISS
SpaceX CRS-1 Mission Update: October 10, 2012 “The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has been successfully captured at the International Space Station. At approximately 6:56AM ET / 3:56AM PT, Expedition 33 crew […]
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SpaceX CRS-1 Dragon Launched and in Orbit
SpaceX Successfully Launches First Official Cargo Resupply Mission to Space Station “Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) today successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on the first official […]
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Orbital and SpaceX Make Progress
American Resupply Missions to the Space Station Progressing “Orbital Sciences Corporation Monday rolled the first stage of its Antares rocket to the launch pad of the nation’s newest spaceport – […]