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SpaceX's Starship rocket achieved a world first on Sunday during its fifth test flight, showing for the first time that Elon Musk's launch system may really have what it takes to revolutionize ...
Also around that time, SpaceX started developing hardware to make the Falcon 9 first stage reusable. The company demonstrated the first successful first-stage landing in 2015 and re-launch of the first stage in 2017. Falcon Heavy, built from three Falcon 9 boosters, first flew in 2018 after a more than decade-long development process.
To save time, employees from the California headquarters would fly there on Musk's private jet. [ 1 ] : 40, 44–46 At 9:50 P.M., 11 March 2003, the Merlin engine completed its first ever full firing with a duration of about half a second, [ 1 ] : 27–28 achieving a thrust of 270,000 N (60,000 lbf) and 93% combustion efficiency.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A September power outage at a California facility of SpaceX, the space venture of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, caused a loss of ground control for at least an hour ...
SpaceX's plans to launch more rockets from California's coast were rejected by a state commission this week, with some officials citing Elon Musk's political posts on X.
In October 2018, SpaceX landed a Falcon 9 booster on a Vandenberg ground pad for the first time. [26] In April 2023, SpaceX leased SLC-6 to begin converting it for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches after the last Delta IV launch there. [27] SpaceX expects to begin Falcon 9 launches from SLC-6 in 2025 and Falcon Heavy launches in 2026. [28]
SpaceX has sued the California Coastal Commission after the state agency rejected a plan that would allow Elon Musk's company to launch up to 50 rockets a year. SpaceX sues California regulators ...
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