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23 Apr 2021 3 minute read 1 comment Cje95
Crew-2 After being delayed a day due to the weather SpaceX and NASA will attempt to launch Crew-2 tomorrow morning at 5:49 AM EST. The biggest issue facing this launch tomorrow is not the weather at or around the launch pad but rather the wind and wa...
20 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
While Jeff Bezos has a rocket company it is pretty interesting to see that his company, Blue Origin, will not be launching the satellites for Amazon's Project Kulper internet service constellation. Amazon is arriving late to the party was both SpaceX...
18 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Cje95
Fantastic news for everyone following space developments! SpaceX has been given the go ahead for the upcoming Crew-2 launch on the 22ed of this month! While I know it is common for me to say how things are big for SpaceX often it is because well they...
17 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
Today SpaceX snagged one of its biggest contracts yet! NASA selected them over Blue Origin and Dynetics to build the lunar lander for the NASA Artemis Project. The contract value is a whopping $2.89 BILLION to build the Human Landing System or HLS. S...
15 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
What would it be without another day of space news led by SpaceX. SpaceX continues to make news and this time it was on two different fronts. The first thing has to do with funding as SpaceX released amended finance forms. After initially releasing...
14 Apr 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Cje95
The Pentagon's Research and Development Arm or DARPA awarded three contracts recently for the DRACO (Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislucar Operations) program. The contracts are divided into two parts and are to fund the first 18-month phase of the...
11 Apr 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Cje95
Catching Fairings Even though SpaceX routinely launches and lands their Falcon 9 rocket boosters there are more components that they had initially wished to recover after a launch. The most noticeable of those was catching the fairings that encompas...
9 Apr 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Cje95
Starlink Updates! With Starlink's continued rollout and an increase in consumer interest SpaceX's President, Gwynne Shotwell addressed the idea of tiered pricing which is very common for most service companies. She was upfront with the fact that Spac...
31 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Cje95
Well, early this morning SpaceX decided to give it a go and launch Starship. To say the results were expected would not be accurate. The liftoff occurred without a hitch and new cameras were installed giving watchers an amazing view of the belly flop...
30 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Cje95
After standing down last Friday it was expected that SpaceX would attempt to launch Starship again today. However, thanks to the FAA that will no longer be a possibility. The test was the same one that has been attempted two previous times with Stars...
