SpaceX Receives NASA Category 3 Certification for Falcon 9; Gwynne Shotwell Quoted
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been certified by NASA to launch high-priority science missions for the space agency under the Launch Services Program, S... Read more
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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 c... Read more
Matt Desch: Iridium’s Satellite Launches Benefit From SpaceX’s Transport System
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company “synergistic” relationship with SpaceX and the latter’s launch vehicle helped bring t... Read more
Report: Execs Say Boeing, SpaceX Crew Vehicles Can Meet NASA Safety Thresholds
Boeing and SpaceX executives have said they believe their commercial space vehicles can meet NASA’s “loss-of-crew” requirement and other safety thresh... Read more
SpaceX, NASA Plan Crewed ‘Dragon’ Spacecraft Test Flight
NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX collaborate to finalize launch day operations for the planned April 2019 test flight of a company-built spaceship bu... Read more
NASA Names Astronauts to Crew Flight Tests, ISS Missions of Boeing, SpaceX Space Taxis; Leanne Caret Comments
NASA has named nine U.S. astronauts who will fly aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxis as part of the first crewed fl... Read more
SpaceX Rocket Sends 7th Iridium NEXT Satellite Batch to Orbit; Matt Desch Comments
Iridium Communications’ seventh batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites took off Wednesday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base... Read more
NASA Starts Commissioning Tests for Northrop-Built Planet Hunter Satellite After SpaceX Launch
NASA has commenced the in-space commissioning test and adjustment period for a planet identification satellite in preparation for the start of space e... Read more
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... Read more
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Wraps Up Thermal Vacuum Tests at NASA’s Plum Brook Station
Janet Kavandi, director of NASA’s Glenn Research Center, has said a SpaceX-built spacecraft has left the agency’s Ohio-based Plum Brook Station for Fl... Read more
