rocketry
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Rivals SpaceX And Arianespace Both Launched Rockets Within 15 Minutes
Last night was a rocket launch double header, with multinational company Arianespace planning to launch an Ariane 5 rocket carrying four Galileo GPS satellites for European customers at 9:25PM AEDT and a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch carrying 10 Iridium satellites 15 minutes later at 7:39PM AEDT.
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SpaceX Landed The Falcon Heavy’s Two Boosters, But Its Core Clipped Its Drone Ship At 300 MPH
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch went pretty well today, with the rocket’s two partially reusable Falcon 9 strap-on boosters making successful landings at Kennedy Air Force Station after jettisoning from the craft three minutes post-launch. However, the rocket’s center core did not function as founder Elon Musk and team intended, and appears to have later crashed…
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Rebuffed Flat Earth Rocketeer Says He Will Actually Launch Himself Into The Sky At 800km/h This Time
When last we heard of “Mad Mike” Hughes, the 61-year-old limo driver and stuntman who planned on launching a $US20,000 ($24,947) steam-fuelled rocket with “RESEARCH FLAT EARTH” painted on the side some 550m into the air at 800km/h, the gosh darn US government had intervened to tell him he couldn’t conduct any such launch on…