Four astronauts riding a newly-designed spacecraft from Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX greeted their new crewmates aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday after successfully docking in a landmark achievement for private space travel.
SpaceX on June 30 is scheduled to make its first attempt to recover the Falcon 9 booster after launching a military satellite.
The rocket’s onboard computer triggered an abort after detecting an issue with one of its engines.
SpaceX launched a communications satellite shared by two companies Dec. 16 using a Falcon 9 rocket.
There has been a pretty remarkable sea change in the attitudes toward rocket reuse.
SpaceX will deploy Canada’s Radarsat Constellation via a Falcon 9 launch Wednesday. Lifting off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force base at 07:17 Pacific Time (14:17 UTC), Falcon will deliver the three radar-imaging satellites to orbit a little over an hour later.
An Israeli moon lander just took to the skies, but we’ll all have to wait nearly two months for its historic touchdown try.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying an Indonesian communications satellite, an Israeli lunar lander and a U.S. Air Force smallsat launched Feb. 21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Sunday in an historic launch from a NASA pad, depositing a spacecraft into orbit before successfully returning to earth as Elon Musk’s SpaceX moved to stake its claim to shuttling humans into space.
