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  • Air Force Meets With SpaceX to Discuss Potential Space Cargo Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Meets With SpaceX to Discuss Potential Space Cargo Operations

    Gen. Maryanne Miller, commander of the Air Mobility Command, has disclosed that the U.S. Air Force has met with SpaceX to discuss the possibility of conducting space-based cargo delivery operations, Defense News reported Saturday. The Air Force is considering using SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket reusable launch vehicle, which is still under development, for cargo services […] More

  • NASA Considers SpaceX's BFR to Launch Telescope for Exoplanet Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Considers SpaceX’s BFR to Launch Telescope for Exoplanet Research

    Yale University astronomy professor Dr. Debra Fischer said during the recent Exoplanets II conference that NASA is financially supporting a study that would look into the possibility of launching a space telescope using SpaceX’s upcoming BFR reusable rocket, Teslarati reported Monday. The Large Ultraviolet/Optical/Infrared Surveyor telescope, or LUVOIR, is being developed for use in the exploration and investigation of exoplanets […] More

  • SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ Rocket Model Sends Comms Satellite Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ‘Block 5’ Rocket Model Sends Comms Satellite Into Orbit

    An updated configuration of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Friday from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to bring into orbit Bangladesh’s Bangabandhu 1 communications satellite, Spaceflight Now reported Friday. The first-stage booster of the rocket’s Block 5 version landed on SpaceX’s drone ship approximately 400 miles east of Cape Canaveral after […] More

  • SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Soars on Maiden Test Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket Soars on Maiden Test Flight

    SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket took off Tuesday at 3:45 p.m. Eastern time from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of its inaugural test flight, Reuters reported Tuesday. The space vehicle has 27 engines that generated at least 5 million pounds of thrust during takeoff. The rocket’s two side boosters […] More

  • Elon Musk: SpaceX Eyes 2022 Launch for 1st Mars Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elon Musk: SpaceX Eyes 2022 Launch for 1st Mars Mission

    SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said he wants to send at least two cargo ships to Mars by 2022 in an effort to determine hazards, establish life-support infrastructure and identify potential water resources, CNBC reported Friday. Musk plans to carry out that plan through the development of a 42-engine rocket system called BFR designed to […] More