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Some observers feel SpaceX, with its Falcon 9 rocket, might be just the answer in succeeding the space shuttles till NASA can develop the sort of rocket ...

Commercial vehicles NASA is counting on to ease the shortfall -- the SpaceX Falcon 9 and Orbital Sciences Taurus II -- are behind schedule, as is the Ares ... and more »

SpaceX develops and manufactures space launch vehicles and has won a $1.6 billion contract from NASA for its Falcon 9 and Dragon vehicles to service the ...

California entrepreneur] Elon Musk flattened my ear on this subject. He said, “Look I do SpaceX so I know a lot about space, I do SolarCity so I know a lot ...

The man in the vanguard of this push is one Elon Musk – the PayPal multimillionaire – who now heads SpaceX. The California company won the NASA contract to ...

Leaving the space agency in 2006, Bowersox is today the vice president of astronaut safety and mission assurance for SpaceX, the rocket company led by ...

SpaceX plans rocket-engine test firing tonight blog) According to a release from SpaceX, this is the final test in a series related to the company's first Falcon 9 launch early next year. ... Rocket engine testing possible tonightKXXV News Channel 25 all 2 news articles »

The day before, the SpaceX Falcon 9 is slated to make its maiden flight in what is currently scheduled to be the first US orbital launch attempt of the ... and more »

Space Fellowship The first test flight of a Dragon is scheduled to take place in early 2010 on board of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The astronauts in the SpaceX ... SpaceX Conducts NASA TrainingsocalTech.com all 25 news articles »

Space Fellowship Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) released details and photos Thursday its first Dragon spacecraft operations training for a group of NASA astronauts ... SpaceX trains its first batch of NASA astronautsOrlando Sentinel Space News all 23 news articles »

The SpaceX Falcon, Armadillo's lunar lander, and Bigelow's Genesis modules have been produced through design iterations. Virgin Galactic's efforts are ...

The Falcon 9's second stage is finishing up testing in Texas before being shipped to Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral, according to Elon Musk, founder and CEO ...

Teslas Motors Reportedly Planning IPO Barron's (blog) Among the individual investors in Tesla are CEO and founder Elon Musk (who also was a co-founder of PayPal and also runs the rocket start-up SpaceX), ... and more »

Another up-and-coming participant in the market is the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which can loft up to 10000 pounds to geostationary transfer orbit. ...

“As we begin the first flights of the Falcon 9/Dragon system, Henderson will serve as a critical link between the SpaceX Safety, Mission Assurance, ... Retired colonel joins Hawthorne's SpaceXDaily Breeze all 3 news articles »

Late afternoon/early evening open thread blog) by SusanG In Interview with Elon Musk, DarkSyde discussed technology, innovation, space exploration and energy with Musk, who cofounded PayPal, SpaceX and ...

SpaceX, which is by far the best positioned of these new firms, has so far only launched two of its Falcon 1 rockets. This is impressive, but it is not ...

SpaceX will deliver ORBCOMM's second-generation satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) for the purpose of supporting ORBCOMM's existing constellation of ... dBusinessNews Newark (press release) all 7 news articles »

The Cape, however, is preparing for the new commercial ELV activity that SpaceX will bring starting in 2010 with its Falcon launcher. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ...

By JackKennedy(jack@jackkennedy.net) Advancing human spaceflight from the Eastern Shore of Virginia may be challenging but the facility is being recognized among the niche commercial spaceflight community. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport is the location for the launch of the Orbital Sciences Corporation Taurus-I...

By JackKennedy(jack@jackkennedy.net) Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) announces delivery of the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Communication Unit to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in preparation for launch on Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-129 in November 12, 2009.

By JackKennedy(jack@jackkennedy.net) Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall [video] told the U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee last week (Aug. 5) that the Ariane 5 booster (Europe's premier rocket booster) is available to support the future of U.S. space exploration, including cargo resupply flights for the International Sp...

By bw(noreply@blogger.com) In January 2006, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule, equipped with a PICA heat shield, set the record for the fastest reentry speed of a spacecraft into Earth's atmosphere - experiencing 12.9 kilometers per second (28,900 miles per hour). SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will return at ju...

 MD Previous failures include Kistler Aerospace and Rotary Rocket, among many others. Current hopes are pinned on Elon Musk and SpaceX, Richard Branson/Burt Rutan and Virgin Galactic, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin, and miscellaneous other entrepreneurs and ...

 MD Even the recent success of SpaceX has only replicated the state-of-the-art orbit-capable rocket. This lack of progress certainly does not appear to be due to lack of funds. Many billions of dollars have been spent on research and development of new ...

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX for short, founded by PayPal entrepreneur Elon Musk, was already hard at work on its Falcon series of rockets. It also had done preliminary design work on a multipurpose capsule called the Dragon, ... all 601 news articles

 MD NASA has followed on COTS with Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contracts awarded late last year to Orbital Sciences and SpaceX, the two companies with funded COTS agreements. Could a similar approach for suborbital vehicles? As with ISS resupply, ...

 MA One example is SpaceX based in Hawthorne, California, which has received a government contract to use its rocket to carry cargo to the space station once the shuttles retire. The company also has a clause in their contract, which NASA has yet to ...

 MD However, there is at least a possibility that the SpaceX Dragon capsule or perhaps something from another firm will be ready in 2012 or thereabouts. The Gap may also be reduced if the shuttle keeps flying beyond its current 2010 retirement date. ...

 MD Larry Williams, vice president of SpaceX, suggested government investment in engine technology could go a long way towards Hayward’s “jet engine” that could revolutionize space transportation. “If there’s one thing I think would ultimately lower the ...

 MD One need only consider the haste with which this group cites the case of the Falcon 9 rocket in any debate about the costs of space flight--as has happened to me personally on several occasions. I wish SpaceX success in its efforts, but I think that ...

By Chris Bergin The 15+1+2 day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will see Endeavour launch off of Mobile Launch Platform #3 with a full set of Cryo, GN2 (gaseous nitrogen), Aft RCS (Reaction Control System), and OMS (Orbital Maneuvering System) tanks.

By Chris Bergin Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. SpaceX chief Elon Musk has spoke of his desire to make Falcon 9 the first fully reusable launch vehicle, which he would “love” to include a flyback first stage. Musk also noted he is aiming for Falcon 9 to launch in under 60 minut...

By Darren Murph The firms not mentioned here are just as important as the ones that are, as the privatization of space has just inched closer to reality. Rather than NASA handling ISS resupply chores itself or farming the job out to mega-corps such as Lockheed Martin or Boeing, the agency has instead award...

By Chris Bergin “The SpaceX team is honored to have been selected by NASA as the winner of the Cargo Resupply Services contract,” said Elon Musk, CEO and CTO, SpaceX. The upgraded vehicle would provide an additional 1,560 lbs of payload capability for International Space Station (ISS) missions, carrie...

By Nancy Atkinson SpaceX conducted a successful full mission-length firing of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle's first stage at its McGregor Test Facility in Texas, late Saturday evening, November 22. But the big news wasn't the success of the firing, but the brouhaha it created with the neighboring communit...

By JackKennedy(jack@jackkennedy.net) The full mission duration test firing of the Falcon 9 first stage lasting nearly 3 minutes. The nine Merlin engines produced 855,000 lbs. of thrust and consumed over half a million pounds of liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene during the test. SpaceX has added video of the test.

By Nancy Atkinson Have you heard about Space Lifestyle Magazine? Its a digital magazine, with a full color layout just like a print magazine, but its all online. It's also free. SLM has feature articles about all aspects of space — NewSpace, NASA, military, science and astronomy — but mostly it's about the pe...

By Chris Bergin With all the interest surrounding SpaceX’s Falcon I launch vehicle of late, many forget that Pegasus was the world’s first privately developed space launch vehicle. Its maiden 1990 mission marked the first all-new, unmanned space launch vehicle developed in the US in more than 20 years.

By Ian O'Neill This may come as a surprise, but then again, it might not. Despite the recently signed US Congressional waiver of the Iran-North Korea-Syria Nonproliferation Act, allowing NASA to use the Russian Progress vehicle to send US supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) after Shutt...

With a successful Falcon 1 launch under their belt, all eyes are now on the SpaceX team and the larger Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to be shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida, late this year to prep for its NASA cargo flights. Falcon 9 has nine Merlin rocket engines to Falcon 1's one, hence the 9 [...]

Eight minutes after leaving the ground, Falcon 1 reached a speed of 5200 meters per second and passed above the International Space Station. We're going to get Falcon 9 to orbit next year," said Musk. "The future of SpaceX is really great."

A lot of people said this wasn't possible— I mean a lot…" Musk went on. SpaceX, like many innovators in the industry, have had a lot of naysaying to contend with. Before SpaceShipOne's flight, the skeptics said it wasn't possible. Afterwards they dismissed the huge accomplishment as trivia...

By Evan Ackerman SpaceX ] By Evan Ackerman SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket successfully entered low Earth orbit yesterday, making it the first privately funded liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit with a payload. The Falcon 1 is a two stage rocket powered by liquid oxygen and liquid kerosene capable of lifting abou...

By Michael Arrington SpaceX’s Falcon 1 spacecraft made history tonight as the first privately developed launch vehicle to reach earth orbit from the ground. This was their fourth attempt. The previous three attempts failed to reach orbit - the last launch, in August, lost two NASA satellites and the ashes of 2...

By Chris Bergin Falcon 1 is a two-stage, liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene (RP-1) powered launch vehicle. It is designed in-house from the ground up by SpaceX. The Falcon 1 Flight 4 vehicle is carrying a payload mass simulator of approximately 165 kg (364 lbs), designed and built by SpaceX specifica...

Photo: Static test of Falcon 1, Flight 4 on September 20, 2008. Courtesy SpaceX SpaceX scrubbed the planned fourth launch attempt of the Falcon 1 rocket, pushing the flight back to Sept. 28. The team cancelled the launch to swap out a liquid oxygen feed line saying they are being "extremely ca...

The Ansari X Prize was won in 2004 by aerospace engineer Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne. The excitement over the contest prompted others to look afresh at the possibilities of space transportation. Mr. Belfiore offers an inside look at many of these "NewSpace" entrepreneurs, including John C...

A new commercial rocket reached space after launching from a Pacific atoll Tuesday but then probably re-entered the Earth's atmosphere after half an orbit because of a problem during the second-stage burn, an entrepreneur said.

Private citizens from space exploration company Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) sent a rocket into space yesterday. The Falcon 1 lifted off the launch pad at 6:10pm California time, and flew 200 miles into space before a malfunction in the second stage sent the roc...