falcon 9
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Watch How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Deploys A Communications Satellite
Video: On March 1 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 deployed two all-electric communication satellites to a supersynchronous transfer orbit. This is the second: The EUTELSAT 115 West B. According to EUTELSAT’s website it “will provide the Americas with new satellite capacity to reach markets serving high-growth data, video, mobility and government applications.”
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Neat Point-Of-View Video Shows The Vertical Re-Entry Of The Falcon 9
Video: The Falcon 9 performed a vertical soft landing test last week, and SpaceX got a pretty neat point-of-view video of the re-entry and touch down from an onboard camera. The camera’s glass broke thanks to the landing burn but the images of the rocket entering the earth from such an unusual perspective are really…
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Here’s How We Go To Space Now
This morning, Elon Musk’s SpaceX program shot its third rocket into space. The Falcon 9 carries with it a Dragon cargo capsule and will deliver supplies to ISS astronauts not entirely unlike a 19th century freight train delivering mining equipment to California.
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Watch The SpaceX Falcon 9 Undergo Performance Anxiety With The World Watching
They say the first time never lasts as long as you’d want. Yesterday’s failed SpaceX Falcon 9 launch is no exception.