Monday, January 16th, 2012
SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 flight with the Dragon spaceship – a mission which is expected to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) – is slipping in order to allow for due diligence “safety checks” ahead of launch. SpaceX’s decision to slip what was a February 7 launch came after comments noting their sense of [...]
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Tags: COTS, CRS, Dragon, Falcon 9, ISS, SpaceX
Published in Commercial, Featured
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
PlanetSpace Inc – which lost out on NASA’s 3.5 billion dollar Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract – have filed an official protest. Last month, SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp) and Orbital were awarded the contract to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) during the transition between Shuttle and Orion.
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Tags: CRS, ISS, NASA, Orbital, Planetspace, SpaceX
Published in Commercial, Featured