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China's Secret Plan To Crush Spacex And The Us Space Program

... China's space program has historically served as a state-driven enterprise to demonstrate the nation's technological prowess, China is now looking to its space program to pay economic dividends as well. Beijing recently set its GDP growth target for 2017 at 6.5 percent — the lowest in 25 years — as an economic boom, long fueled by cheap labor and low-end manufacturing, appears to have reached the limits of its expansion. The march of the unicorns. Though China is home to 43 start-ups worth at least $1 billion, according to CB Insights' "Unicorn List," President Xi has expressed a desire to see more of them, particularly in information technology and network-related businesses, that could serve as China's next growth engine. And there are signs both within and outside of Xi's government, indicating that Beijing believes its space ambitions can provide a boost to both state-owned and private enterprises in China, catalyzing the kinds of technological breakthroughs that will lift ...

Spacex 'super-excited' About Port Canaveral Complex

... and reuse rockets much more quickly. Wochit. Buy Photo. Ricky Lim, Sr. Director, Launch Operations, Space X, gave a presentation to port commissioners at the Canaveral Port Authority meeting Wednesday morning on their future plans at Port Canaveral. (Photo: MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY)Buy Photo. 169 CONNECT TWEET 11 LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. Space X Senior Director of Launch Operations Ricky Lim says the commercial space company is "super-excited" about a new deal that will enable it to process rocket boosters for reuse at Port Canaveral. Lim made a presentation at the Canaveral Port Authority meeting on Wednesday, just before port commissioners unanimously approved a five-year lease agreement with Space X. The lease includes the 53,360-square-foot former Space Hab facility at 620 Magellan Road on the north side of the port. The company also plans to build an adjacent 44,000-square-foot hangar on the 4-acre parcel. Space X will use the complex to process, refurbish and store rocket boosters for future reuse. "We plan to launch and land at an extremely high rate going forward," Lim said. "We're going to have a ...

Spacex Beats Ula On Price For Gps Launch

... on Thursday, March 16, 2017. 3 of 5. 2017 ROCKET LAUNCHES FROM THE SPACE COASTFalcon 9 blasts off from KSC, lands at Cape | 1:08. A Space X Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted off from Kennedy Space Center's historic pad 39 A on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. The first stage returned for a successful landing in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. 4 of 5. 2017 ROCKET LAUNCHES FROM THE SPACE COASTAtlas V rocket blasts off with missile detection satellite | 1:35. An Atlas V rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the SBIRS missile detection satellite on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. 5 of 5. Space X launches, lands 'flight proven' Falcon 9. Delta IV rocket launches from Cape Canaveral. Space X Falcon 9 rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center. Falcon 9 blasts off from KSC, lands at Cape. Atlas V rocket blasts off with missile detection satellite. A Space X Falcon 9 rocket blasting off in June 2016 with a pair of commercial satellites owned by Eutelsat and ABS. (Photo: Space X). 15 CONNECT TWEET 2 LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. Space X's lower price sealed its win of a Global ...

Spacex For History Books & First Core Stage Re-flight

... 9 grounded as an investigation took place, SES-10’s place in the manifest shuffled as the Falcon 9 launch order was redesigned. By January 2017, just after a successful Falcon 9 Return To Flight mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, Core 1021 was at Mcgregor and installed on the Falcon 9 test stand. The core was loaded with propellant, and its nine Merlin 1 D engines were fired for a full duration hot fire test – as part of a standard pre-launch flow. The core was then transported back to the Kennedy Space Center and moved into the HIF for final flight processing. Despite the passage of nearly one year between flights, Core 1021 was refurbished in just four months, as Gwynne Shotwell stated earlier this month. Looking ahead to launch, Space X will attempt to recover the Core 1021 at sea with OCISLY. If Space X can successfully recover Core 1021 again, it will not only be an historic achievement, but will provide even more data on how Falcon 9 core stages fare during ...

Spacex And Nasa Are Looking To Land A Ship At One Of These 4 Places On Mars

... beneath the surface, making it a candidate for colonization efforts. The image below shows the Arcadia Planitia region in relation to some of its surroundings. Colonists at AP might have a great view of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System. Colonists in Arcadia Planitia (upper left in map) might have a great view of Olympus Mons. NASA. The four areas looked suitable in images from a medium resolution camera (CTX) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). But when the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Hi RISE) camera on the same orbiter was used to look more closely, the first three locations appeared to be much rockier. According to Space News , Wooster said “The team at JPL has been finding that, while the areas look very flat and smooth at CTX resolution, with Hi RISE images, they’re quite rocky. That’s been unfortunate in terms of the opportunities for those sites.”. The fourth area, Arcadia Planitia, is a more promising site. Hi ...

Spacex To Relaunch Recovered Rocket And Clear A Viable Path To Mars

... hold-down fire of that rocket’s engines a few days before the reflight next week. With the upcoming second launch will also come a second landing. After the Falcon 9 makes its payload delivery, the booster will once again perform a boostback maneuver and come soaring back through Florida’s skies  for its second landing on the Of Course I Still Love You. Space X has been conducting booster landing tests since September 2013. They didn’t fully recover one until December 21 st 2015 when they navigated the Falcon 9 back to Cape Canaveral following a satellite delivery and touched down on ground at Landing Zone 1. It was the first time in history an orbital rocket was recovered after a mission. “I tell my team, imagine if there’s a pallet of cash that was plummeting through the atmosphere and it was gonna burn up and smash into tiny pieces. Would you try to save it?” said Elon Musk at Recode’s Code Conference last year. “Probably yes. That sounds like a good idea. We want to get it back so that way we don’t have to make another one.”. The first reflight of a recovered rocket ...

Spacex And Nasa Are Hunting For Mars Landing Sites

... by a presentation by NASA on landing sites and exploration zones for human missions to Mars. One site looks promising, Wooster said. Get Data Sheet , Fortune’s technology newsletter. NASA and Space X are narrowing down sites based on certain criteria, including access to ice near the surface, which would be used to support humans who settle on the planet, according to remarks reported by Space News. Space X recently completed its 10 th cargo flight with NASA. The company's Dragon spacecraft was deployed on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and delivered supplies and scientific experiments to the International Space Station for NASA. Space X's intention to get to Mars is hardly secret. Last year, the company tweeted its plans to send Dragon to Mars as early as 2018. But the collaboration provides a glimpse at the company's progress. Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come __link__/u 4 nb VUNCp A. - Space X (@Space X) April 27, 2016. The planned Mars ...

Spacex Signs Lease With Port Canaveral For Booster Refurbishing

... cargo cranes at sunrise. MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY. Buy Photo. The first stage of a Space X Falcon 9 rocket launched on Friday has returned to the Space Coast early Tuesday morning. The booster came into Port Canaveral standing vertical on the barge named "Of Course I Still Love You." It was docked near the port's cargo cranes at sunrise. MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY. Buy Photo. The first stage of a Space X Falcon 9 rocket launched on Friday has returned to the Space Coast early Tuesday morning. The booster came into Port Canaveral standing vertical on the barge named "Of Course I Still Love You." It was docked near the port's cargo cranes at sunrise. MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY. Buy Photo. The first stage of a Space X Falcon 9 rocket launched on Friday has returned to the Space Coast early Tuesday morning. The booster came into Port Canaveral standing vertical on the barge named ...

Spacex Blasts Off One Of Its Last Nonreusable Rockets

... The reason, as Space X CEO Elon Musk explained on Twitter back in January, is that going forward, Space X will use either an upgraded Falcon 9 with more fuel capacity (for smaller payloads), or the company's new Falcon Heavy lift vehicle. The latter was designed from the ground up to lift very heavy payloads into space and still have enough fuel left to land Falcon Heavy's three first-stage boosters back on Earth. It will no longer need to build disposable rockets. "They were expendable". It's hard to overemphasize how significant this development will be - even to the extent of changing the language we use to describe spaceflight. Historically, all rockets going to space have been basically one-shot deals. You build a rocket, you launch it, you build another rocket. Going forward though, space writers and ...