Posts By Eric Ralph
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1.2KSpaceXSpaceX job posts confirm Starship’s Super Heavy booster will be built in Texas
A duo of SpaceX job postings at the company’s South Texas facilities have confirmed that both Starship and Super Heavy “flight article” vehicles...
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21.7KSpaceX3D-printed Mars habitat could be a perfect fit for early SpaceX Starship colonies
Space architecture startup AI SpaceFactory achieved second place in the latest phase of a NASA-led competition, pitting several groups against each other...
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29.1KSpaceXSpaceX calls ULA NASA launch contract “vastly” overpriced in official protest
SpaceX has filed an official protest with the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) after NASA awarded competitor United Launch Alliance a launch contract...
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27.7KSpaceXSpaceX to submit Moon lander proposal for latest NASA spaceflight competition
SpaceX reportedly plans to submit its own human-rated Moon lander design for NASA’s latest major request for proposal (RFP), part of the...
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23.0KNewsSpaceX’s next Falcon Heavy reaches milestone as third booster arrives in FL
A new SpaceX rocket was spotted traveling into Florida yesterday on its way to one of the company’s several Cape Canaveral booster...
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21.9KSpaceXSpaceX competitor Arianespace criticized for lackluster response to Falcon 9’s success
Best known for the commercial success of its Ariane 5 workhorse rocket, European aerospace cooperative Arianespace was heavily critiqued in the latest...
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24.6KSpaceXSpaceX’s Starship engine breaks Russian rocketry record held for two decades
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the company’s Raptor engine, meant to power Starship and Super Heavy, has surpassed a rocketry record held...
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29.5KNewsSpaceX hints at mystery Falcon 9 missions with record breaking launch target
Speaking at the 2019 Smallsat Symposium, SpaceX Vice President of Commercial Sales Jonathan Hofeller announced that the company will try to break...
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21.8KNewsSpaceX’s Mr. Steven crosses Panama Canal on 5000 mile journey to Florida
Iconic SpaceX vessel Mr. Steven has completed a successful transit of the Panama Canal as of February 7th, leaving the fairing recovery...
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23.9KDIYSpaceX’s Starship engine hits twice the thrust of Merlin just days after test debut
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the company’s Raptor engine – static-fired for the first time at full scale barely four days...
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64.3KNewsSpaceX’s Starship prototype is looking increasingly rocket-like as hop test pad expands
As SpaceX’s South Texas operations continue full steam ahead in pursuit of the first integrated hop tests of a full-scale Starship prototype,...
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27.6KSpaceXSpaceX’s Crew Dragon launch moves to March, risking Falcon Heavy delays
The planning date for the launch debut of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft has been pushed to no earlier than (NET) March 2019 per...
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18.3KNewsSpaceX’s first redesigned Raptor static fire paves the way for Starship’s hop test debut
After years of development, multiple prototypes constructed, and more than 1200 seconds of cumulative static fire testing at durations longer than what...
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25.4KNewsSpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives in Texas for milestone Starship engine test
On Saturday evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk landed in Waco, Texas – perhaps along with additional SpaceX propulsion engineers – for the...
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20.5KNewsSpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals photos of Starship’s first completed Raptor engine
Shortly after Teslarati reported that the first operationalized Raptor had shipped to McGregor, Texas for its first full-scale static fire tests, SpaceX...
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22.6KNewsSpaceX sends “radically redesigned” Starship engine to Texas for hot-fire tests
SpaceX has shipped one of the first of a group of Starship engines known as Raptor, described last month by CEO Elon...
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23.0KNewsSpaceX’s next Falcon Heavy launch may feature record-breaking center core landing
Thanks to a temporary reopening of the US federal government, SpaceX was finally able to continue the process of filing FCC and...
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26.6KNewsSpaceX’s Mr. Steven barely misses Falcon 9 fairing catch in latest video
Shortly after the ship departed for the East Coast, SpaceX shared a video of one of recovery vessel Mr. Steven’s recent controlled...
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23.3KSpaceXSpaceX fairing catcher Mr. Steven heads for Panama Canal after one last drop test
Iconic fairing recovery vessel Mr. Steven appears to have quietly departed for SpaceX’s Florida launch facilities a few days after completing (successfully...
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23.7KSpaceXSpaceX workers cap Starship with tank dome as Raptor arrivals and hop tests near
SpaceX employees and local contractors continue to outfit the aft section of the first full-scale BFR prototype with a variety of important...
