SpaceX Launches Futuristic Pop-Up Room, Lands Rocket At Sea
SpaceX resumed station deliveries for NASA on Friday, and in a double triumph, successfully landed its booster rocket on an ocean platform for the first time.
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SpaceX resumed station deliveries for NASA on Friday, and in a double triumph, successfully landed its booster rocket on an ocean platform for the first time.
SpaceX made history again Friday when it successfully launched a spacecraft carrying supplies to the International Space Station, then recovered the expensive rocket that propelled the ship into orbit on a floating barge.
A rocket set for launch from Cape Canaveral on April 8 will carry fungi to the International Space Station for experiments in developing new medicines for use in space and on Earth.
The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral without a hitch at 3:30 p.m. Friday after three failed attempts.
The mission was aborted just one minute and 40 seconds before launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
CEO Elon Musk posted on Instagram a video showing the rocket landing on a barge off Southern California, toppling over and exploding.
The latest in a series of U.S.-European satellites designed to detect and measure ocean phenomena like El Nino has reached orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket that will attempt to land its discarded first stage on a floating barge.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that made history after landing on its own is ready to be launched again.
Hawthorne-based SpaceX made history Monday night after the company's Falcon 9 rocket landed safely back in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA has provided an exquisite view of the moon that will never be perceived from Earth.
Southern California based SpaceX on Monday released a preliminary summary addressing the loss of their Falcon 9 launch vehicle and failure of the CRS-7 mission that occurred in June.
A SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station erupted Sunday shortly after liftoff.
SpaceX, the Hawthorne-based aerospace manufacturer led by Elon Musk, is looking to base its rocket and spacecraft retrieval operations out of the Port of Los Angeles, the company's representatives said Thursday.
After a pair of delays, SpaceX, the space transport company based in Hawthorne, California, successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, propelling the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) deeper into space than the company had ever ventured before.
SpaceX has raised $1 billion from Google and Fidelity in a deal that values the spaceship manufacturer at about $10 billion.
Hawthorne-based SpaceX called off its planned flight to the International Space Station on Tuesday because of rocket trouble.
Elon Musk and his wife are divorcing for a second time.
The unmanned Dragon capsule parachuted into the Pacific, west of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, on Saturday.
SpaceX is one of several private companies competing to build "space taxis" for NASA to replace the retired space shuttle fleet.
Space station astronauts got a special Easter treat: a cargo ship full of supplies.
Space Exploration Technologies says it has been awarded a contract with Japan's SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. to launch a telecommunications satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket in 2015.
A Hawthorne-based space transport company was forced to scrub a privately-financed satellite launch for the second time this week over technical glitches.
A SpaceX rocket carrying a Canadian satellite intended to track space weather launched from the California coast Sunday in what was billed as a test flight.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk urged the public to polish sketch plans he released last week for a "Hyperloop" that would shoot capsules full of people at the speed of sound through elevated tubes connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule was in Los Angeles Thursday after returning to Earth on Tuesday with a full science load from the International Space Station.
