The private space company Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has officially requested a February 2, 2010, launch window for its new Falcon 9 delivery system. The announcement has been made by the US Air Force's 45th Space Wing, which has recently released a launch-range forecast for the Cape Can... |
3 November 2009
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SpaceX is one of the largest and most successful private space companies, having already performed a number of launches on vehicles designed by its own experts. The Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Corporation is based in Hawthorne, California, and it plans to conduct the new test flight no later than the end ... |
26 September 2009
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In these financially troubled times, creating an enterprise that works is a real challenge, but Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, a start-up in the rocket industry, seems to be doing just fine in that regard. Founded in 2002, the company already has plans to launch the newest in a series of rockets this yea... |
4 June 2009
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Citizens in the neighborhood of SpaceX's McGregor Test Facility in Texas have hopefully calmed down by now, following the panic stirred Saturday night. They must have been assured that no war, Sun explosion or alien invasion was in place at the time, as some appear to have believed. In fact, the reaction was cau... |
25 November 2008
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Following a recent invitation-only conference held at its own headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and attended by nearly 50 experts from different fields and institutions, the Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) company hopes to find enough important customers interested in purchasing their DragonLab reusable ... |
10 November 2008
09:23 GMT |
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After three failed attempts to reach a stable orbit, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has finally managed to set its Falcon 1 booster in a perfect elliptic orbit around Earth, at a distance of about 700 km (435 miles). SpaceX CEO and CTO Elon Musk, co-founder of the PayPal Internet payment technology, sa... |
29 September 2008
06:28 GMT |
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Bad luck just seems to stay on NASA's tail. It now looks like the scheduled retirement of its space shuttle will leave the international community with a rather big dilemma. With the space shuttles gone, there would be no reusable vehicle capable of transporting astronauts to the International Space Station, sin... |
4 February 2008
04:55 GMT |
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Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly known as SpaceX, represents a space-transportation startup company founded in 2002, which has the goal to improve the cost and reliability of space travel. The Falcon 9 represents a stage of development that uses a multi-engine rocket in order to create a heavy-lif... |
31 January 2008
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