Tag: Falcon Reusable

“Important Announcement” From SpaceX Today

“Important Announcement” From SpaceX Today

Credit : Getty Images SpaceX has released the following media advisory;  “Elon Musk will make an important SpaceX announcement today, Friday, April 25th at 1:00PM ET at The National Press Club” Given the deafening silence coming from SpaceX after tweets from Elon Musk last Friday that the Falcon 9 first stage on the CRS-3 mission […]

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First Angara Rocket Ready to Ship to Launch Site

First Angara Rocket Ready to Ship to Launch Site

Source : RIA Novosti After a seemingly endless development program stretching back into the 1990’s, the first booster in a long anticipated family of new Russian launch vehicles has completed testing and is being prepared to ship to the northern spaceport of Plesetsk. It will still be some time before launch however, as the Angara “light” is […]

USAF Shelves Reusable Booster Program

USAF Shelves Reusable Booster Program

Spacenews is reporting that in the wake of a critical report by the National Research Council, the United States Air Force is cancelling its Reusable Booster Program, citing budget concerns. The program sought to develop a horizontally launched, partially reusable booster which would be powered by a staged combustion kerosene/oxygen engine.  The winged booster would have carried an […]

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