Last week part two of our our three part podcast Summer Series was on the Future of Nuclear Powered Space Exploration which will one day increase our ability to explore the solar system. This week in episode 3, the topic is Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species.
Read More »Canadians Lead SpaceX Team at First Mars Workshop
Today and tomorrow SpaceX will be holding its first Mars Workshop in Boulder, Colorado to discuss how the company will accomplish the goal of sending humans to Mars with an eye to living on the Red Planet.
Read More »The Billion-year Arch Library Riding Along with Elon Musk’s Tesla in Space
All eyes were glued on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy’s successful launch this past Tuesday. Not only because it demonstrated SpaceX’s new and astonishing space launch capability, but because of the idiosyncratic, even baffling cargo: one of Elon Musk’s own Tesla Roadsters, complete with “Starman”, its spacesuit-wearing dummy passenger.
Read More »SpaceX Falcon Heavy Successfully Launches on its First Flight
Today SpaceX successfully launched the Falcon Heavy on its first launch attempt, an event which could arguably be called historic. Not just for the successful launch, but also because of the successful landing of the two side boosters.
Read More »The SpaceX Falcon Heavy Podcast
My guest this week on the SpaceQ podcast is Chris Gebhardt, Assistant Managing Editor of NASASpaceflight.com. Chris and I talked about SpaceX, specifically the upcoming maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Read More »The Keith Cowing Interview: Jim Bridenstine and NASA, Elon Musk and SpaceX, Lockheed Martin and Mars
My guest this week is none other than my business partner Keith Cowing. Keith and I co-founded SpaceRef 18 years ago.
Read More »SpaceX Launching From Canada, That’s Wishful Thinking
Yesterday in the Globe and Mail, Micheal Byers floated the idea that SpaceX “needs a spaceport in Canada” to launch a constellation of several thousand small satellites for SpaceX. It’s wishful thinking, it won’t happen and here’s why.
Read More »Presser: In Their Own Words – Elon Musk on Historic Rocket Reusability
Fifteen years in the making. That was a comment repeated several times by Elon Musk during a presser, or press conference, shortly after SpaceX had done what no one had done before, reusing a first stage booster of an orbital rocket that had been previously safely returned from another mission.
Read More »SpaceX Nails Launch and Landing on Return to Flight
SpaceX and its customers can breathe a sigh of relief today after an instantaneous launch went off without a glitch. The Falcon 9 lifted off at 12:54 p.m. EST and began deploying the first of 10 Iridium satellites 59 minutes later. At 2:13 p.m. EST SpaceX reported that all of the Iridium satellites had been deployed successfully.
Read More »As SpaceX Returns to Flight There’s a Lot Riding on the Flight for Many Companies
Today at 12:54 p.m. EST, SpaceX should return to flight with the launch of a Falcon 9 on the Iridium 1 mission, if all goes well. There’s a lot riding on this mission, and not just for SpaceX.
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