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Wayward boat gets blamed after SpaceX aborts Falcon 9 rocket liftoff at last second
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SpaceX shows how its Dragon 2 spaceship hovers
A newly released video shows SpaceX’s Dragon 2 capsule pulling off a valuable trick: firing its thrusters to hover above a landing pad. The Nov. 24 test was part of Project DragonFly, the California-based company’s effort to develop a Dragon that...
Twitter truce: Jeff Bezos takes the high road, offers kudos to Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Rocket launches can sometimes turn into flame...
SpaceX rocket launches satellite, but landing attempt ends with a crash
Less than a month after SpaceX’s first successful rocket landing, billionaire Elon Musk’s company tried to do it again today – but this time, the rocket broke a leg and crashed onto its oceangoing landing platform. Oh, and the Falcon 9...
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...
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,...
New photos of SpaceX booster show sooty, but undamaged rocket
Image of used Falcon 9 booster in the SpaceX hangar, released on Jan. 3. (credit: SpaceX)
The Falcon 9 rocket not only survived, it now appears increasingly clear it did so in good shape. On Sunday SpaceX released a new photo of the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket that it successfully landed two weeks...
With a historic landing, SpaceX launches new age of spaceflight
Behold: The launch, and landing, of an orbital rocket. (credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX did it. On Monday night the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket soared into space, separated from the second stage, and then made a guided flight back to a landing site in Florida. The historic flight marked the beginning of the orbital economy...