SpaceX head Elon Musk has revealed plans to utilize the Falcon Heavy and Dragon 2 vehicles for science missions throughout the solar system. Citing Dragon 2’s capability as a “science delivery platform”, Mr. Musk claimed the crew-capable spacecraft could also be tasked with landing scientific payloads at destinations ranging from the Moon and Mars – and even as far afield as Europa.
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SpaceX’s new rocket system, the Falcon Heavy, is continuing preparations for her 2015 debut, with…
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SpaceX has confirmed it is now into the construction phase of converting Kennedy Space Center’s…
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SpaceX: Falcon Heavy, Falcon 9 tag team set to share 20 launches a year
by Chris BerginSpace Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) head Elon Musk revealed their latest launch vehicle on Tuesday, the…
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SpaceX launched its fiftieth Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday, deploying Spain’s Hispasat 30W-6 satellite into geostationary…
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On the two main coasts of the United States, SpaceX launched a number of low…
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Falcon 9 B1077-4 launched 56 Starlink v1.5 satellites into low Earth orbit on Wednesday, March…
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SpaceX’s Starship program has reached a major milestone ahead of its historic launch with a…
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 carrying private Japanese moon lander
SpaceX has used its Falcon 9 rocket to send a privately funded mission toward the…
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SpaceX’s 49th Falcon 9 flight of 2022 has lifted off from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space…
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The Eutelsat Hotbird-13F geostationary communications satellite launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 out of Cape…
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United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket made its last West Coast launch on…
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SpaceX has launched the SES-22 communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit on the 27th Falcon…
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SpaceX launched a pair of ocean surveillance satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office on Sunday…
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SpaceX has launched the National Reconnaissance Office Launch (NROL)-87 mission on their third dedicated mission…
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Falcon 9 finally launches with Italian CSG-2 Earth observation satellite
The Italian Space Agency’s CSG-2 mission, the second satellite in its COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation constellation,…
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NASA and SpaceX have launched the revolutionary Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory from…
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NASA cites Falcon flight heritage to select SpaceX to launch Europa Clipper
by Tyler GrayOn Friday, July 23, NASA announced that SpaceX was the winner of a commercial procurement…
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SpaceX Starbase may be lacking a rocket at the launch site, but work is still…
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Just one year after losing Starship SN4 after a Static Fire test, SpaceX’s progress at…