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- spacex - What is the advantage of catching a rocket booster with a . . .
SpaceX recently made headlines for using a tower to catch a rocket booster after a launch While this is undoubtedly a major technical achievement, can anyone explain in layman's terms why they wo
- SpaceX F9 : TRACERS Rideshare : VSFB SLC-4E: 23 July 2025 (18:13 UTC)
Aboard the SpaceX vessel, twin spacecraft known as TRACERS—Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites—will begin their journey to study Earth’s mysterious magnetic interactions with the sun The satellites will be packed with scientific instruments along with two small, but meaningful, tokens
- SpaceX F9 : NROL-69 : CCSFS SLC-40 : 24 March 2025 (17:48 UTC)
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), in partnership with U S Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC), Space Launch Delta 45, and SpaceX, successfully launched the NROL-69 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on March 24, 2025, at 1:48 p m EDT
- SpaceX Falcon Missions Section - NASASpaceFlight. com
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- spacex - Why will Starlink satellites use krypton instead of xenon for . . .
It's the SpaceX often does things differently: Krypton is a lot cheaper The satellites are designed to control costs For example, each will maneuver with Hall-effect thrusters—ion thrusters in which propellant is accelerated by an electric field The conventional fuel for such a thruster is xenon, which offers high performance
- Starship Flight 8 UPDATES : Starbase TX : 6 March 2025 (23:30 UTC)
The eighth flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Friday, February 28, pending regulatory approval A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 40 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX You can also watch the webcast on the X TV app The launch window will open at 5:30 p m CT As is the case with all developmental testing, the schedule is
- SpaceX F9 : Transporter-14 Rideshare : Vandenberg SLC-4E : 23 Jun 2025 . . .
SpaceX F9 : Transporter-14 Rideshare : Vandenberg SLC-4E : 23 Jun 2025 21:25 UTCNAOS aboard Transporter-14 as cake-topper payload? Transporter-13 already has Albedo-1, which appears to be a cake-topper as well 🎂 As an imagery reconnaissance satellite, NAOS appears designed for a SSO, so a Bandwagon rideshare is unlikely And, in the Transporter-12 thread, the launch costs for a dedicated
- spacex - What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? - Space . . .
SpaceX tests all flight software on what can be called a table rocket They lay out all the computers and flight controllers on the Falcon 9 on a table and connect them like they would be on the actual rocket They then run a complete simulated flight on the components, monitoring performance and potential failures
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