The recent explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket in Florida was caused by a fault in the cryo helium” at the top of the oxygen tank of the vehicle. On 1 September, one of the Falcon 9 rockets exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preparations for …
Read More »Conveyor SpaceX can leave the boundaries of Mars
Colonial Transporter, SpaceX is quite capable to overcome the boundaries of Mars and to fly farther than they intended, its creators. This was announced by the founder and CEO of SpaceX Ilon Musk. As reported on Twitter Elon Musk, developed by the company in the framework of the colonization of …
Read More »SpaceX will resume launches in November
In the next few months of launches is not expected. SpaceX plans to resume launches of the carrier rocket Falcon 9 is not until November this year. This was announced by chief operating officer of the company Gwyn Shotwell. According to her, in the next few months of launches is …
Read More »SpaceX has lost the satellite due to the explosion of the rocket
The developers have estimated the losses at $ 200 million The explosion of the carrier rocket Falcon 9 burned Israeli satellite Amos 6. Losses of the Israeli Spacecom, lost satellite, which was to provide television and Internet signal in the middle East, Europe and Africa, the developers estimated at two …
Read More »SpaceX found the first commercial customer for Falcon 9 rocket
The company Elon musk SpaceX has signed a contract for the sale of the stage with his “confirmed flight” of the Falcon 9 rocket. This was reported on the website of the company. The first buyer returned a unique stage of the rocket has become a major satellite operator SES …
Read More »NASA called the mission cost SpaceX to Mars
In the future SpaceX plans to send to Mars on spacecraft every two years. According to estimates NASA, SpaceX will spend $320 million to send a Dragon capsule to Mars in 2018 year. The mission is SpaceX for sending a capsule to the Red planet is called the Red Dragon. …
Read More »The founder of SpaceX will fly into orbit
Billionaire is confident in the success of a rocket launch to Mars in 2018. The founder of Tesla and SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk said it plans in the next five years to fly into orbit. Musk said that he really wants to be “multiplanet view” that will eventually allow you …
Read More »SpaceX put back on the floating platform Falcon 9 rocket
In the framework of the last mission, the SpaceX rocket, the Falcon 9 delivered into orbit a new communications satellite. Booster Falcon 9 was successfully launched from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral. This was reported in the Twitter company SpaceX. The rocket was launched at 01:21 (08:21 MSK), led to …
Read More »SpaceX got a NASA contract for 5 additional flights to the ISS
NASA has concluded with SpaceX Elon musk (Elon Musk) the contract for five additional missions to deliver cargo to the International space station (ISS). According to Space News, the deal was done in December of last year, but about it it became known only now. This means that SpaceX will …
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