Falcon
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SpaceX is set to usher in a new era in space later this year when it launches the first rocket to ever make the trip beyond Earth's gravity well twice.
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SpaceX has nailed another seabarge landing of a first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. Returning from the successful launch of a Japanese communications satellite, the Falcon 9 booster set down on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship late Saturday.
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SpaceX scored a double success today by sending a Dragon cargo ship into orbit and nailing another ground landing - the first such landing since the Orbcomm 2 mission last December.
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The latest attempt by SpaceX to land a Falcon 9 booster on a sea barge ended in what founder and CEO Elon Musk called a "rapid unscheduled disassembly." The unmanned rocket impacted on the deck of the droneship "Of Course I Still Love You" at 10:37 am EDT.
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As well as making great strides towards its goal of a reusable launch system, SpaceX has made improvements in rocket engine technology which mean that while launch prices look like they are going up, they're actually going down.
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SpaceX's landing of its Falcon 9 rocket last Friday was the third time the company has pulled off such a feat. But this time the company has provided a different perspective, with an onboard camera capturing the rocket slicing through the atmosphere and landing on a sea barge in the Atlantic Ocean.
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SpaceX has nailed a night landing of its Falcon 9 booster. Against all expectations, the rocket not only achieved its second landing on the unmanned "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship, but did so in the dark, at high speed and with little fuel.
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It seems the SpaceX project was a bit conservative with its payload predictions for the Falcon spacecraft. Updates to the capabilities of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy published online have revealed the rockets will be able to carry much larger payloads than first thought.
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SpaceX has released footage shot from a circling chase plane of the first successful barge landing of the Falcon 9 mainstage booster.
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SpaceX scored a double first today as the Dragon spacecraft returned to service and the Falcon 9 booster nailed the first ever powered landing at sea.
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After successfully delivering a satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, SpaceX attempted to land its Falcon 9 booster on a seabarge in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has now confirmed in a tweet that the landing attempt was unsuccessful.
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SpaceX dramatically aborted its third attempt to launch the SES 9 mission today at literally the last second. SpaceX has not yet announced a new launch date.
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