Welcome to Edition 7.36 of the Rocket Report! Well, after nine months, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ...
SpaceX has tied its own record with the 20th use of a Falcon 9 booster with its latest and final mission, the launch of a European Union Galileo L12 navigation and positioning satellite.
SpaceX launched its third mission of the year for the United States' spy satellite agency today (March 24), the 19th ...
SpaceX set a new rocket-reuse record early Friday morning (March 21) when it launched a batch of spy satellites for the U.S.
SpaceX has broken its rocket-reuse record yet again. A Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early this morning (Feb. 15), rising off a pad at Florida ...
After a Falcon 9 booster lands, it takes time to ready it for a return to the launch pad — often several months. But Block 5, Musk has said, is "designed for easy reuse" that takes just weeks of ...
The Falcon 9 that took off on Sunday and helped deliver ... But setting a record for successful reuse of its rockets is just one piece of SpaceX’s business. The company is also putting a lot ...
The cost savings from reuse aren’t nearly as attractive if ... Over the years they’ve mastered landing the Falcon 9’s first stage, and they’ve even proven that the recovered boosters ...
But since December of 2015, SpaceX has been landing and refurbishing their Falcon 9 boosters, with the end goal of operating their rockets more like cargo aircraft. Today, while it might go ...
The Chinese seem to have slipped one in to the schedule over night, which should be launching even as I type this. Technically, it ought to be one of the next three, but I will include it here for ...
SpaceX set a new rocket-reuse record early Friday morning (March 21). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday at 2:49 a.m. EDT (0649 GMT; 11:49 p.m. on ...
breaking a reuse mark that SpaceX set just last month. Fifteen of those 26 missions have sent Starlink satellites skyward, according to a company mission description. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...