For the third time in a row, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sent a payload into space and then came back for a landing on an...
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster leans in for a landing at sea after launching satellite
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Woohoo! SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes nighttime landing at sea after launching JCSAT-14 satellite
SpaceX increased the degree of difficulty for tonight’s Falcon 9 rocket landing attempt...
SpaceX Falcon booster comes full circle to Cape Canaveral after landing at sea
Eleven days after a thrilling landing at sea, SpaceX’s Falcon 9...
Wayward boat gets blamed after SpaceX aborts Falcon 9 rocket liftoff at last second
A wayward boat and a load of liquid oxygen that got too warm...
Tesla says supplier botched Falcon Wing door hydraulics for Model X
(credit: Megan Geuss)
Tesla is suing a Swiss parts vendor that the electric-vehicle maker said produced a defective hydraulic system for the Model X's signature, vertically opening winged doors. Hoerbiger's prototype never was used in Tesla's latest electric car, and Tesla had to retool "the entire vehicle in order to support a different engineering solution,"...
SpaceX Falcon delivers NASA/NOAA satellite but has rough landing
On Sunday, SpaceX's Falcon booster successfully lifted the Jason-3 satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Following that, the first stage attempted to achieve a landing on the Just Read the Instructions barge, which was floating off the California coast. The barge was experiencing 12-to-15-foot waves at the time of liftoff and just as the rocket descended towards the barge, communications went out possibly...
SpaceX launches Jason 3 satellite, then tries to land Falcon 9 rocket at sea
Less than a month after SpaceX’s first successful rocket landing, billionaire Elon Musk’s company tried to do it again today – this time, on a ship at sea. Oh, and the Falcon 9 rocket launched a satellite, too. The primary objective of today’s...
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Star Wars analysis: The Starship Enterprise would destroy the Millennium Falcon
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a smart man — perhaps too smart. After butting heads with Star Wars fans last month about BB8’s design (according to physics, the droid’s smooth metal ball would “skid uncontrollably on...
SpaceX rehearses Falcon 9 rocket launch – and relives last month’s rocket landing
SpaceX fired the engines of its Falcon 9 rocket on its California launch pad on Monday evening, marking a seemingly successful rehearsal for this weekend’s launch of the Jason 3 ocean-monitoring satellite. But the rocket’s trickiest maneuver – flying...
SpaceX plans Falcon 9 rocket landing on Pacific drone ship after Jan. 17 launch
SpaceX is planning something completely different for its next rocket-landing trick: After launching the U.S.-European Jason 3 satellite on a Falcon 9, it’ll have the first-stage booster fly itself back and try to touch down on a drone ship off California’s coast. Well,...
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