Event though it was not equipped with landing legs, the SpaceX Falcon 9 V1.1 first stage which boosted the Dragon CRS-4 mission to ISS on September 21st, still made a bit of history. And the imagery is simply amazing. As part of the ongoing campaign to use operational Falcon 9 missions to advance the development […]
Back to the Hangar/ Image Credit SpaceX SpaceX has scrubbed the launch of AsiaSat 6, which had been scheduled for 12:50 AM EDT tonight. Although no statement has been forthcoming as to the cause of the scrub, the use of the word “indefinitely” to describe the delay suggests it may be tied last Friday’s Falcon […]
Some details regarding yesterday’s mishap with a three engine F9R in Texas are beginning to emerge. Local news media posted a video to Youtube, which although shot at a distance, appears to show the F9-R make a normal ascent, begin a translation maneuver, and then pitch over to a clearly excessive degree prior to the […]
Image Credit : Bigelow Aerospace In many ways, the promise being offered by SpaceX in lowering the cost of access to orbital space is only one part of a much larger image, one which we are still waiting to see come in to focus. Standing every bit as critical to remaining in space, as the […]
Although today’s SpaceX press conference was held primarily to announce a lawsuit filed to stop the Air Force/ULA block buy, it also shed quite a bit more light onto last Friday’s soft landing of the Falcon 9 first stage. To sum it up, in the words of Chief Brody “You’re going to need a bigger […]
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