Tag: Elon Musk
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SpaceX retrieves Falcon Heavy fairings from sea for reuse on future launch
One half of the Falcon Heavy’s payload fairing after retrieval from the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday night. Credit: Elon Musk/SpaceX SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk said Thursday that the company’s recovery fleet in the Atlantic Ocean recovered the two halves of the Falcon Heavy’s payload shroud after the heavy-lifter’s second launch from the…
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Meow! Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos a satellite copycat — and gets called out
The rivalry between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has surfaced on Twitter. Again. (Musk Photo: TED via YouTube; Bezos Photo: GeekWire / Kevin Lisota) The fur is flying in the broadband internet satellite race. It all started when we found out that Amazon was planning its own 3,236-satellite constellation to provide…
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Photos: SpaceX launches crew capsule demonstration flight
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, designed to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, fired into orbit on top of a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 2:49 a.m. EST (0749 GMT) Saturday from pad 39A at the Florida spaceport.…
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SpaceX launches first Crew Dragon ferry ship
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fires away from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with the first space-bound Crew Dragon capsule. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now Opening a new era in American spaceflight, a Falcon 9 rocket streaked into space early Saturday, boosting the company’s first…
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SpaceX’s Elon Musk shows off test firing of Starship’s methane-fueled Raptor engine
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk checks out the nozzle of a full-scale Raptor rocket engine in advance of its first test firing. (Elon Musk via Twitter) SpaceX CEO celebrated the first test firing of a full-scale, built-for-flight Raptor engine for his Starship super-rocket in the usual way tonight: by tweeting about it. “So proud of great…
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Elon Musk says SpaceX has assembled Starship test rocket with shiny, retro look
Which is the illustration, and which is the actual Starship Hopper test rocket? The real rocket is on the left — and take note of the Starman standing by one of the fins. (Elon Musk via Twitter) For weeks, photographers have been snapping pictures of a retro-looking, shiny stainless-steel rocket that’s been taking shape at…
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SpaceX plans to lay off 10 percent of workforce
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks with reporters after the Falcon Heavy’s maiden flight in February 2018. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now SpaceX, the upstart rocket company that has shaken up the launch industry with low-cost reusable boosters and ambitious long-range plans to carry people to Mars and beyond, plans…
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SpaceX plans to lay off 10 percent of workforce
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks with reporters after the Falcon Heavy’s maiden flight in February 2018. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now SpaceX, the upstart rocket company that has shaken up the launch industry with low-cost reusable boosters and ambitious long-range plans to carry people to Mars and beyond, plans…
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SpaceX about one month away from first commercial crew test flight
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Jan. 10 with NASA statement confirming target launch date in February. The crew access arm at launch pad 39A extended to the Crew Dragon spacecraft shortly after the Falcon 9 rocket was erected vertical Jan. 3. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX founder Elon Musk said this weekend that the company is about one month…
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SpaceX launch Monday will signify a new advance in reusing rockets
EDITOR’S NOTE: SpaceX announced early Sunday that the SSO-A launch has been delayed to Monday to allow additional inspections on the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage. The rocket set to launch the Spaceflight SSO-A rideshare mission Monday previously flew twice — on May 11 from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, and on Aug. 7…