Tag: Falcon Heavy
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to raise $500M as it makes progress on its Big F’n Rocket
Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. (GeekWire Photo/Kevin Lisota) Elon Musk’s SpaceX is aiming to raise up to $507 million in a new funding round, according to documents filed with the state of Delaware last week. SpaceX has authorized 3 million shares of stock for this Series I round, valued at $169 each, according to…
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Elon Musk Q&A: First Mars spaceship is being built, with flight tests set for 2019
Billionaire Elon Musk (in the black hat) and his brother, Kimbal Musk (in the white hat), join in a rendition of “My Little Buttercup” at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. (SXSW via YouTube) SpaceX is building its first Mars transport vehicle, also known as the BFR, and “making good progress” toward short-hop test flights…
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Rideshare mission for U.S. military confirmed as second Falcon Heavy launch
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off Feb. 6 from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now More than two dozen satellites from the U.S. military, NASA and research institutions will ride into orbit on SpaceX’s second Falcon Heavy rocket launch, a mission currently scheduled for…
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Photos: SpaceX’s imagery of Falcon Heavy test flight
SpaceX this week released a new batch of photos showing the Feb. 6 liftoff of the company’s first Falcon Heavy rocket from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, followed by landing of the launcher’s two side boosters around eight minutes later at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Falcon Heavy lifted…
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Elon Musk’s Tesla will have a close encounter with Earth in 2091
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Credit: SpaceX Even though it doesn’t obey any earthly speed limit and has a space-suited mannequin for a driver, Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster won’t drive up his insurance rates anytime soon. Researchers say the sports car won’t have a really close encounter with Earth until 2091 and could…
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New drone ship under construction for SpaceX rocket landings
File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster being offloaded from a drone ship at Port Canaveral, Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX will deploy a new rocket landing platform off Florida’s Space Coast to enter a rotation with another drone ship stationed at Cape Canaveral, company founder Elon Musk said Monday. The third drone ship…
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Falcon Heavy success paves the way for open access to space beyond Earth
It’s been said before, but it bears repeating: Tuesday was a momentous and historic day in the history of space exploration as SpaceX successfully conducted the maiden flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket – a heavy lift vehicle capable of placing 140,000 lbs into Low Earth Orbit. But beyond the sheer numbers of its capabilities,…
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Did NASA pass up SpaceX offer for Falcon Heavy payload? Former NASA official raises questions
Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver hears from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. (Lori Garver via Twitter) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk makes it sound as if he always wanted to put a Tesla Roadster, and not much else, on top of the Falcon Heavy rocket for this week’s historic maiden launch. But NASA’s former deputy administrator,…
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Photos: Launch pad cameras capture Falcon Heavy’s fiery liftoff
This up-close sequence of photos shows the Falcon Heavy rocket lifting off from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with nearly 5 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust. Using remote cameras, photographer Walter Scriptunas II took these images of the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket firing off pad 39A at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT)…
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Photos: More images of Falcon Heavy’s launch and booster landings
These additional views of the Falcon Heavy’s maiden liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center, and landing of its two side boosters at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, come from locations across the Florida spaceport. The Falcon Heavy lifted off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT), and…