Update: (NEW) SpaceX Falcon Landing Video and a Look Ahead
Video of the landing attempt shot from the ASDS Just Read The Instructions was posted anonymously on vidme. A YouTube version is included below. While it is perhaps silly to attribute human or even...
View ArticleMusk Confirms Slow Throttle Valve Doomed Falcon 9 First Stage
Image Credit: SpaceX After first tweeting and then deleting, SpaceX founder Elon Musk confirmed Saturday night that slow response from a thruster valves was the cause of last week’s close but no cigar...
View ArticleSpaceX Dragon Makes Morning Departure, Next Mission for June 26th
Dragon at Sunrise / Image credit NASA Update: The Dragon departed ISS on time this morning at 6:04 AM CDT as it was 250 miles over the southern coast of Australia. The SpaceX CRS-6 Dragon capsule is...
View ArticleSpaceX CRS-7 Mission Set For Sunday Morning Liftoff
The SpaceX CRS-7 cargo mission to the International Space Station has been moved from Friday to Sunday, June 28th with a new liftoff time of 10:21 AM EDT from Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40. If liftoff, which...
View ArticleA Dark Day for NASA, SpaceX, as Falcon 9 Fails on CRS-7 Mission
Correction: A Russian Progress is scheduled to launch to ISS on July 3rd Original story: Many had hoped it would be prove to be a day that changed space history forever. Instead, it offered a major...
View ArticleSpaceX’s Falcon Failure: One Week Later More Questions Than Answers
One week after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated in the skies over Cape Canaveral, there are far more questions than answers. Fortunately, one of the answer which has been forthcoming regards the...
View ArticleSpaceX Failure Cause Expected by Week’s End
The answer to what caused the June 28th breakup of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket may soon be forthcoming, according to a July 5th twitter post from company founder Elon Musk. “Expect to reach preliminary...
View ArticleIt’s All About the Strut; Breaking Down the SpaceX Falcon Failure
Although the conclusions are still preliminary, SpaceX engineers believe they have tracked down the cause of last month’s spectacular failure of a Falcon 9 rocket in the skies over Cape Canaveral. The...
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ULA Friendly Representatives Want to Know More About SpaceX Failure
When the SpaceX Falcon 9 boosting the NASA CRS-7 payload exploded in the air over Cape Canaveral on June 28th, one of the first sympathetic tweets came from United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno. It...
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One Year After the SpaceX CRS-7 Failure
CRS-7 Ends in Failure One year ago yesterday, SpaceX suffered a major launch failure of its Falcon 9 system with the loss of a booster carrying the a Dragon spacecraft to ISS on the CRS-7 resupply...
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