SpaceX

ColdFusion is one of the few youtube channels I'm subscribed to. Today they uploaded this video. Btw, check out their Tesla videos HERE.

A reference to Merlin's CH4-LOX mixture made me contemplate the atmospheric effects of the various by-products of different rocket fuels. As usual, I'll bow out and offer others to perform the calculations (so gracious of me, I know. I cannot help myself from being so charitable). I think the...

Tesla and SpaceX are companies with big ambitions. See attached for possible specification for a Falcon XX to sections of a Mars bound vehicle to space.

Lots of similarity between Telsa and SpaceX technology development - as we should expect with Elon in charge of both. Tesla, the newer company, has a product development portfolio which is briefly described as: -- The Roadster - a commercial proof of concept for its electric drivetrain with a...

Vladimir Putin dissolved Roscosmos, Russias federal space agency

Falcon 9 • Jason 3 January 17th Launch time: 1842:18 GMT (1:42:18 p.m. EST; 10:42:18 a.m. PST) Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Jason 3 ocean altimetry mission. Jason 3 will measure ocean surface topography to aid in...

It's impressive in the sense that someone put in a lot of effort into calling people "filthy hippies" living in San Francisco hovels. Elon Musk and his taxpayer subsidized companies - YouTube

Falcon 9 First-Stage Sunrise Timelapse - YouTube

OT: Elon needs to let Lego make SpaceX sets, especially a Falcon 9 set. My son is going to want to re-enact this over and over.

Falcon 9 First Stage Landing | From Helicopter - YouTube

I know this may be a controversial topic to raise, but could it be that Elon's goal to very soon populate Mars is a foolish goal? My main reasons for thinking this: 1. I have never heard or read of any technological concept that would allow humans to live for extended periods of time on Mars...

Appears Dec 15th or 16th for RTF. Static fire next week. Launch window of 9:54pm(EST) - 12:54am(EST).

Crew Dragon | In Orbit - YouTube

Crew Dragon | Interior - YouTube

Upgraded Falcon 9 First-Stage Static Fire | 9/21/15 - YouTube

SpaceX Internships - YouTube

SuperDraco | Test Fire - YouTube

SpaceX May Try Land-Based Rocket Landing This Month, NASA Official Says It seems to be official: SpaceX will attempt the next landing, on land. I give this one a very high probability of being successful considering their history of near misses. *fingers crossed*

President Obama Signs Bill Recognizing Asteroid Resource Property Rights into Law | Planetary Resources Full bill is here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-114hr2262enr/pdf/BILLS-114hr2262enr.pdf This is a wide ranging bill that acknowledges the future of commercial space ventures...

It seems that Blue Origin has successfully performed VTOL of reusable rockets, beating SpaceX to land a used rocket. Jeff Bezos beats Elon Musks SpaceX in the reusable rocket race One point of note is the much slower speed of the Blue Origin rocket - could the BO rocket deliver payloads at...

NASA Orders 1st Crewed Mission from SpaceX We knew that this was coming and its nice to see it confirmed in the news. SpaceX receives firm order for its first crew flight | Spaceflight Now

A personal prediction: I think that Elon will make a round trip to the ISS in a Crew Dragon by 2020. We know he wants to go to Mars. But that is a ways off. In the meantime, once the Crew Dragon is regularly taking astronauts to the ISS, why not make a first trip into space on a SpaceX vehicle...

Hover your mouse over today's (9/28 )XKCD for a chuckle...

Not SpaceX-related per se but, this is a wonderful effort: Guys build amazing 7-mile-long model of the solar system, to scale - CNET

Rocket production on site too... Amazon's space nerd CEO sets up rocket shop at Cape Canaveral - CNET

An interesting read: BBC - Future - How fast could humans travel safely through space?

Los Angeles Times: "Musk is scheduled to make his comments in a 30-minute conference call with journalists." Link: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-elon-musk-discusses-rocket-failure-20150717-story.html

Curious about Inconel as used in the new battery pack connector, I looked it up on Wikipedia, and found that SpaceX has expertise. Thought it is interesting. A cross fertilisation between the two companies. From Wikipedia SpaceX uses inconel in the engine manifold of their Merlin rocket engine...

I was just thinking, what is the max speed and acceleration an electric jet could reach if it didn't have to carry any batteries. Imagine a jet flying just a few feet off the ground pulling power from a live and earth strip it is just touching lightly via some conductive pole or even perhaps via...

Some might find this interesting! I do! http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/07/02/two-faces-of-pluto-revealed-in-color-imagery/ Mission started like 9 years ago, fly by July 15, 2015. Then looking at other objects way-the-heck-out-there!

I've just discovered a Russian news website: "Sputnik International". Here is their take on news that is topical to most readers of this sub-forum (something has happened to Safari on my new iMac, and I can't cut & paste websites today. Strange): US Space Command Warns Not to Phase Out...

SpaceX just released an article on their landing attempts: The why and how of landing rockets | SpaceX It includes a new video of the last landing showing much more than before and details of what caused it to fail. I believe they believe they have it right and are expecting success on...

Fickle, thy name is SpaceX. Obviously, in preparation for ditching drone barge landings altogether in preference to kissing the cold, hard Earth (but oh so softly, of course!), the new drone barge's name is Of Course I Still Love You* Yeah, yeah. They (these lonely, ungainly barges) never...

(mod note: moved from SpaceX Factory tour) I used to have a connection. He quit SpaceX because he didn't believe in the vision. Good riddance! I don't miss him one bit.

I'm going from TMC Connect to LA and would love to do a spaceX factory tour. I know that they're not open to the public but I'm curious how these are arranged. I'll be at the Kennedy Space Center so see a launch later this month and it would be great to see the rockets under construction in...

What on earth does SpaceX have to do with the popular vehicle-interior liner? Absolutely nothing at all. HOWEVER.....the name of the earth's most equatorially-close space port, at just 2 degrees off the equator, is Brazil's Alcântara Launch Center. It is run by and in typical Brazilian...

The Martian (a motion picture) With your fellow Tesla owner: Matt frickin' Damon :wink:

I didn't see a similar thread; this news from today could be merged with something else if I'm late to the party. I see news out of BBC today from Ariane/Airbus, wherein the booster rockets would have the ability to fly themselves back to earth. This differs from the SpaceX model wherein the...

Pretty funny.

First stage is a balloon :smile: Balloon space launch system could open space to all - Al Jazeera English

Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer)2015-05-06, 8:33 AM #SpaceX #Dragon Capsule went from 0-100 mph in 1.2 seconds. If I did my math right, that’s 3.7 gs of thrust. Not bad...

Pad Abort Test - YouTube

Two new methods to power interstellar travel are being tested by NASA: an EmDrive, which uses only electricity to power space travel, and (believe it or not) warp drive. More here: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/nasa-about-crack-interstellar-travel/nk75M/

Dunno if it was posted, pretty cool launch, rocket is waaaay different looking than Falcon9 obviously. IMO it's pretty awesome to accomplish something so difficult but from an unconventional approach, ie differing fuel, design etc.

(mod note: changed this thread's title and merged another thread in after the launch failure) Launch Date: June 19th Launch time: 1751 GMT (1:51 p.m. EDT) Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the ninth Dragon spacecraft on the...

SpaceX Thales Mission - YouTube

CRS-6 First Stage Landing - YouTube

SpaceX CRS-6 Launch - YouTube

SpaceX CRS-6 Launch - YouTube