by Philip Hylands | Mar 4, 2019 | Commercial human spaceflight, International Space Station, NASA, SpaceX, test
A Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 launch vehicle successfully launched the first unmanned test of the Dragon 2 crew capsule – called DM-1 – at 0749 GMT on 2 March. The launch took place from Kennedy Space Center, near Cape Cape Canaveral in Florida. The initial orbit achieved...
by David Todd | Nov 9, 2018 | commercial launch services, Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX, Technology
Elon Musk has announced via Twitter that his SpaceX rocket firm will fly a re-entry test vehicle as part of its BFR/BFS research. This project aims to produce an all-reusable rocket system capable of return not only from low Earth orbit (LEO), but also from the Moon...
by David Todd | May 23, 2018 | NASA, On a Lighter Note
NASA’s fine photographer Bill Ingalls has realised that he might have overdone it when he got in a little too close to get one of his trademark close-ups of the Falcon 9 Vandenberg launch, which was carrying the GRACE Follow-on (GRACE FO) two-satellite mission and the...
by David Todd | May 23, 2018 | Launches, NASA, Satellites, Seradata News, SpaceX
A pair of NASA/DLR scientific spacecraft designed to study the Earth’s water cycle and how mass is distributed around the planet’s surface and subsurface, the Gravity-Recovery And Climate Experiment – Follow On (GRACE Follow On) satellites, were...
by David Todd | Mar 13, 2018 | Launches, Seradata News, SpaceX
NASA’s independent report into the Falcon 9 launch failure, which lost Dragon CRS-7 and eight small Flock/Dove satellites on 28 June 2015, has finally been released. It specifically criticises a SpaceX design error – and by implication its chief designer: Elon Musk....
