Tag: SpaceX
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Photos: SpaceX founder Elon Musk reveals new $10B ‘Space Internet’ plan at private Seattle event
SpaceX founder Elon Musk addresses the crowd at a private event at Seattle Center. (GeekWire Photo) Elon Musk stopped in Seattle on Friday evening, on his way to Mars. The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO slipped quietly into town to speak at a private event at Seattle Center — where he revealed previously unannounced details about SpaceX’s plans for its fledgling Seattle-area…
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Photos: SpaceX Dragon capsule delivered to Seattle Center for private event with Elon Musk
SpaceX has officially arrived in Seattle. As shown in these photos, posted to Facebook by the Cornish College of the Arts, the company’s Dragon space capsule has been delivered to Seattle Center in advance of a private event tonight where company founder Elon Musk is expected to mark the opening of a SpaceX engineering office…
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SpaceX shares dramatic video of Falcon 9’s crash landing
SpaceX has shared a dramatic video of the Falcon 9 booster’s crash landing on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean after the rocket’s successful Jan. 10 liftoff with supplies for the International Space Station. SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk posted images from the video on Twitter early Friday, offering commentary on what happened as…
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24 launches scheduled at Cape Canaveral this year
A Falcon 9 rocket streaks into orbit Jan. 10 in this long exposure photograph from Kennedy Space Center’s press site. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Up to 24 launches are planned from Cape Canaveral in 2015, thanks to jam-packed manifests for SpaceX and United Launch Alliance to send up satellites for the U.S. military, NASA and…
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Elon Musk: SpaceX will hire up to 1,000 people in new Seattle office
Elon Musk. Update: SpaceX’s new Seattle-area office is in Redmond; Elon Musk to visit region this week SpaceX founder Elon Musk is serious about enabling human life on Mars, and employees at his company’s new Seattle-area office will be key to accomplishing that goal. In an interview with Bloomberg today, Musk said that he wants to…
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Video: Dragon arrives at space station
The cargo-carrying SpaceX Dragon spacecraft arrives at the International Space Station and is grappled by Canadarm2 to complete a two-day journey since launch.
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Astronauts eager to dig in to fresh delivery of supplies, gifts
Astronaut Terry Virts tweeted this photo of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft — carrying 2.6 tons of supplies and research hardware — on final approach to the International Space Station on Monday. Credit: Terry Virts/NASA Astronauts on the International Space Station are eager to begin unpacking 2.6 tons of supplies and experiments — including a package of…
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Video: Falcon launch replays
Isolated camera angle replays of Saturday morning’s predawn SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.
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Photos: SpaceX’s rocket landing platform back in port
SpaceX’s ocean-going rocket landing pad — dubbed the autonomous spaceport drone ship — is back in port after a Falcon 9 rocket booster crashed on the platform during an experimental flyback maneuver following Saturday’s successful liftoff with supplies for the International Space Station. Under tow from a tugboat, the 300-foot-long Marmac 300 cargo barge arrived…
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Dragon successfully launched, rocket recovery demo crash lands
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 4:47 a.m. EST (0947 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II/Scriptunas Images A commercial Dragon spaceship soared into orbit from Cape Canaveral on Saturday in pursuit of the International Space Station, but the automated craft’s Falcon 9 booster crash landed after flying back…