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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket receives NASA certification for Jason 3 mission

May 17, 2015

SpaceX has now received National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) certificate to launch the agency’s medium risk science mission. As per the reports, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will now be an inte...

SpaceX Falcon rocket fails to land on drone barrage as expected for the second time

Cody Gash

Apr 17, 2015

Innovation

SpaceX has successfully sent its supplies to the International Space Station, but the attempt to make Falcon rocket land at the lower stage did not go according to the planning. The aim was to make the rocket l...

Joint venture of NASA, NOAA, US Air Force DSCOVR finally makes its maiden flight on SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket

Ally Stackhouse

Feb 12, 2015

Innovation

After three false starts DSCOVR finally made its maiden flight with its declared intent of protecting Earth from solar storms. 15 years and innumerable delays DSCOVR or the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacec...

SpaceX Falcon rocket launch reschedules for Monday due to technical error in AF Radar tracking system

Charles Omedo

Feb 9, 2015

Innovation

It is no longer news that SpaceX’s attempts to land its Falcon 9 rockets on a floating platform on the Pacific ocean had flopped a number of times, with one of them exploding on touchdown. The company is attemp...

SpaceX Falcon 9 delivers cargo to ISS but failed to land upon floating platform

Charles Omedo

Jan 12, 2015

Innovation

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 had been launched to deliver cargo weighing over 5,000 pounds or 2,300 kg to the International Space Station (ISS) – and it sure did; but it crashed upon return to Earth – failing to safe-land...

SpaceX calls off the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket due to technical faults

Charles Omedo

Jan 7, 2015

Innovation

Technical faults have necessitated SpaceX to abort the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket at the last minute of take-off. The Dragon cargo-bearing ship was scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station (...

SpaceX dispatches rocket to ISS with food supplies and equipments

Charles Omedo

Jan 6, 2015

Innovation

Owned by billionaire CEO Elon Musk, private space company SpaceX is set to dispatch its Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, January 6 by 6:20 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center in...

SpaceX plans to land a rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean

Charles Omedo

Dec 10, 2014

Innovation

SpaceX is planning to launch its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on December 16, but company also plans to do something much more – return its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth and have it land on...

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket successfully delivers AsiaSat 6 Satellite into the Orbit

Platonium

Sep 7, 2014

Innovation

A Space Exploration Technologies Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to deliver a commercial communications satellite into orbit. The communications satellite will provide ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes AsiaSat 6 Communication Satellite into Orbit

Christian Bloss

Sep 7, 2014

Innovation

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