Commercial satellite operator SES has decided to employ reused Falcon 9 first-stage hardware in the launch of its SES-11 (ECHOSTAR 105) spacecraft. This follows successful flights with a similar reused first-stage for its own SES-10 geostationary...
While the beautiful Australian film actress Amber Heard has obvious attractions, they were apparently not enough for Space rocket man/Tesla electric car head Elon Musk. He has reportedly decided to split from the reportedly heartbroken Amber (according to The Mail on...
Elon Musk, billionaire founder of SpaceX (and Tesla cars), has apparently backtracked on a promise to provide a Dragon manned space vehicle capable of making propulsive vertical landings on Earth. Speaking at the International Space Station Research and Development...
A Falcon 9 rocket made a launch at 2338 GMT on 5 July from the SpaceX pad at the Kennedy Space Centre. On board was the INTELSAT 35e (Intelsat Epic 3) spacecraft which is designed to offer high throughput communications in North and South America and over the North...
The reusable Dragon CRS-11 (Dragon CRS1-11) capsule, having been undocked/unberthed at 1800 GMT on 2 July 2017, was fully released by the International Space Station (ISS), utilising its robot arm, at 0641 GMT on 3 July 2017. Dragon CRS-11 then performed five hours of...
A four-metric-ton communications satellite, called Bulgariasat, 1 was successfully launched into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) by a Falcon 9v1.2RR (Block 3) rocket at 0918 GMT on 23 June 2017. The launch took place from the LC39A pad at Cape Canaveral,...
