Tag Archives: SpaceX

Helios Wire and exactEarth will each have a small satellite launched on the upcoming SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of the Spaceflight SSO-A rideshare mission scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 27.

There is a space race ongoing in Canada and it’s not what you might expect. In fact, it’s flying under the radar and the government is ill-prepared to deal with it because frankly they’re not paying enough attention.

We’ve known for some time that the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is tentatively set to launch in November. Is it now possible that the launch could slip to December, perhaps even into early 2019?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My guest this week is none other than my business partner Keith Cowing. Keith and I co-founded SpaceRef 18 years ago.

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.