Next week will use a previously-flown Falcon 9 booster, and the final two Iridium Next missions will fly on new Block 5 boosters. This would be the tenth launch for SpaceX in 2018. May 22 Falcon 9 Iridium Next 51-55 & GRACE Follow-On Launch time: 1947:58 GMT (3:47:58 p.m. EDT; 12:47:58 p.m. PDT) Launch site: …
Elon Musk plans to connect downtown city centers via hyperloop through Boring tunnels to spaceports that would use SpaceX BFR to fly anywhere in the world within 30-40 minutes in order to reduce transit time. This would eventually let people travel from city center to other cities around the globe in less than an hour. …
Elon Musk indicates that SpaceX will probably build 30 to 40 rocket cores for ~300 missions over 5 years. Then SpaceX BFR takes over and Falcon retires. The goal of SpaceX BFR is to enable anyone to move to moon, Mars And eventually outer planets. 300 missions over 5 years is an average of 60 …
The US Air Force is the first paying customer for a Falcon Heavy mission. The STP-2 mission has a number of objectives, including demonstrating the new rocket’s capabilities and launching several satellites. The U.S. Air Force is targeting October for its Space Test Program 2 mission, known as STP-2, a spokeswoman for the Air Force …
Tesla and SpaceX have been building material engineering teams to develop new advanced materials for their respective products. The teams are so interlinked that Tesla recruiters referred to them as a “SpaceX/Tesla Materials Engineering organization. Two years ago, Musk hired Apple’s alloy expert Charles Kuehmann to lead materials engineering at both of his companies simultaneously. …
Elon Musk has stated the following goals with the SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 there will be up to 300 more flights of Falcon 9 Block 5 before retirement of the rocket. – Block 5 is really it’s the 6th iteration of Falcon 9 – This will be last major version. – There will be …
Nature materials -Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail A solar sail able to be pushed by lasers to 20% of light speed would need to be about 10 square meters but weigh less than a gram. The sail will have to average out to being 100 atoms thick yet still be able to transmit the …
Nature materials -Materials challenges for the Starshot lightsail A solar sail able to be pushed by lasers to 20% of light speed would need to be about 10 square meters but weigh less than a gram. The sail will have to average out to being 100 atoms thick yet still be able to transmit the …
The SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket should be the next mission launched in one week by SpaceX. The Block5 should have up to ten reuses of the first stage. Falcon 9 Block 5 static fire test complete ahead of next week’s launch of Bangladesh’s first geostationary communications satellite. Vehicle is healthy. Data review will …
SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell believes the SpaceX Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) will be ready for suborbital testing in 2019, while the booster-spaceship system could potentially reach orbit by 2020. Early phases of in-house BFR structures prototyping is being performed under a temporary tent that is 60 meters long by 30 meters wide and is ~15 …
Elon Musk has released a photo on Instgram of the SpaceX main body tool. Elon Musk described the SpaceX BFR in a talk last September. It will be 106 meters tall by 9 meters wide. It will be able to launch 150 tons and will be 100% reusable and will be able to rapidly relaunch. …