Tag: SpaceX
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk inks $3.5M book deal to write about Earth and Mars
Elon Musk Like he needed the cash, Tesla and SpaceX head honcho Elon Musk just signed a $3.5 million book deal with Penguin. Details are scarce at this point, but apparently it’s a book about Earth and Mars, “half about the issues facing us on Earth — sustainability issues in particular. The second half will be about the…
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Photos: Falcon 9 soars into space at sunset
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on its 15th flight just before sunset Wednesday, putting on a spectacular sky show en route to space with a NOAA satellite to measure the solar wind. The 224-foot-tall booster launched at 6:03 p.m. EST (2303 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad, pitched east-northeast…
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Space weather observatory blasts off after 17-year wait
The Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 6:03 p.m. EST (2303 GMT) with the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: SpaceX An interplanetary space weather station rocketed away from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, speeding toward a remote operating post a million miles from Earth to help forecasters warn of intense solar…
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SpaceX to forgo booster recovery on Wednesday’s launch
A view of SpaceX’s rocket landing ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: SpaceX via Elon Musk SpaceX says it is giving up on landing the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean after Wednesday’s launch of a NOAA space weather observatory due to rough seas in the booster recovery zone…
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SpaceX to forgo booster recovery on Wednesday’s launch
A view of SpaceX’s rocket landing ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: SpaceX via Elon Musk SpaceX says it is giving up on landing the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean after Wednesday’s launch of a NOAA space weather observatory due to rough seas in the booster recovery zone…
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Commercial Dragon supply ship returns to Earth
Photo credit: SpaceX via Elon Musk SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship wrapped up a 29-day stay at the International Space Station on Tuesday, departing the complex with nearly 3,700 pounds of research specimens, a balky spacesuit and experimental 3D printed parts before re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. The splashdown at 7:44…
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Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by high winds aloft
The Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Unfavorable high-altitude winds above Cape Canaveral on Tuesday kept a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with a NOAA space weather observatory on the ground another day. The 22-story rocket was filled with rocket-grade kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants, and nothing else…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches the DSCOVR spacecraft
Nearly fifteen years after its originally planned launch date, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission has set sail atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday at 18:03 local time. A scrub on Sunday’s was followed by unacceptable Upper Level winds ahead of the second attempt on Tuesday.…
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SpaceX: Latest Falcon 9 landing attempt thwarted by 3-story waves in Atlantic
The “autonomous spaceport drone ship” that SpaceX built to recover the Falcon 9 first stage. After multiple scrubs in recent days, SpaceX is counting down again for the launch of its first deep-space mission this afternoon, sending the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) into space to monitor solar storms. However, the company won’t be attempting to…
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