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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch will make you excited about spaceflight again

sudshr47 February 5, 2018

Watching a rocket launch into space is like nothing else.

Your heart races. Your palms sweat, and when you hear that terminal count kick in – 10, 9, 8, 7… – it really hits home that this is a wondrous feat of engineering that you’re fervently hoping will go right, but could also be moments away from turning into a ball of flame.

It feels like seconds stretch into hours as you’re waiting for the rocket to lift off, and then suddenly, in the blink of an eye, the rocket is in the air, moving swiftly up into the clouds.

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SpaceX is about to launch its most powerful rocket yet

sudshr47 February 5, 2018

SpaceX is about to light its biggest candle ever

The Elon Musk-founded company is planning to launch the maiden flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, propelling the launcher into the history books as one of the most powerful rockets in history

Assuming it doesn’t blow up.

Which is a big assumption: Musk himself has tempered expectations for this launch, saying that there’s a good shot that the test launch may go awry

“There’s a lot of risk associated with the Falcon Heavy; real good chance that vehicle doesn’t make it to orbit,” Musk said during a talk in July 2017.

“I hope it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage. I would consider even that a win to be honest. And yeah. Major pucker factor, really. There’s, like, no other way to describe it.” Read more…

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Launching a Tesla to space is really, really stupid, but I love it all the same

sudshr47 February 2, 2018

On Tuesday, something truly ridiculous is going to space.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is launching the first flight of its new rocket, the Falcon Heavy. And what is it taking to space? Perhaps a satellite? Maybe a student experiment? Nope!

SpaceX is launching a cherry red Tesla Roadster blasting “Space Oddity” by David Bowie into a distant orbit around Mars.

It’s pointless. It’s dumb. It’s corporate synergy at its worst. But, oh boy, do I love it.

I love the thought of a car drifting apparently endlessly through space and perhaps being discovered by an alien race millions of years in the future

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2017 Read more…

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Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch the Falcon Heavy ‘in a week or so’

sudshr47 January 24, 2018

SpaceX is about to light a very big candle.
SpaceX is planning to launch the first flight of its big new Falcon Heavy rocket “in a week or so,” according to a tweet sent out by Elon Musk on Wednesday.
The announcement came just about an hour af…

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Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch the Falcon Heavy ‘in a week or so’

sudshr47 January 24, 2018

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Secret government satellite’s fate remains a secret

sudshr47 January 9, 2018

Just call it Schrödinger’s rocket launch.

A classified government mission launched to space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket may or may not be functioning in orbit after its Sunday night launch from Florida; but aside from some rumors and anonymous quotes, we really don’t know what’s going on with the U.S.’s secret satellite.

According to anonymous sources quoted in stories published in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, the mission — codenamed Zuma — appears to have failed to separate from the rocket as expected after launch. Read more…

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New video shows SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket waiting for its big launch debut

sudshr47 January 3, 2018

SpaceX is about to have a very big moment.

The Elon Musk-founded company is all set to stage the first true test of its Falcon Heavy rocket, the huge new launcher expected to loft SpaceX’s dreams of a future filled with rockets to new heights.

A new video from the private spaceflight outfit shows off the Falcon Heavy waiting in Cape Canaveral, Florida for its big debut moment.

With more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff—equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft at full power—Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of twohttps://t.co/NneqPRPr46 pic.twitter.com/oswCUreG6i

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 3, 2018 Read more…

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SpaceX outdid themselves with a picture-perfect rocket landing

sudshr47 December 15, 2017

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Jeff Bezos’s rocket company sent ‘Mannequin Skywalker’ to the edge of space

sudshr47 December 13, 2017

Blue Origin is back at it again.

The rocket company — backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — just announced the completion of its seventh rocket test and landing of its suborbital New Shepard rocket and capsule in Texas on Tuesday.

And they have the snazzy video to prove it.

The highly-produced video shows the relatively small, newly-upgraded rocket fly to 322,032 feet above Earth’s surface, delivering the capsule — complete with huge new windows — to space. Both the rocket and the capsule then landed softly back on Earth. Read more…

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