PortandTerminal.com, September 21, 2020 (SpaceFlightNow) A solid-fueled Long March 11 launcher delivered nine small Chinese Earth observation satellites to orbit last week after firing off a ship positioned in the Yellow Sea. The four-stage rocket blasted off from the De Bo 3 launch platform in the Yellow Sea at 0123 GMT Tuesday (9:23 p.m. EDT Monday), according to China’s government-run …
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PortandTemrinal.com, August 24, 2020 LOS ANGELES – SpaceX boss Elon Musk revealed, or to be more accurate – reaffirmed, today that his intention long term is to have the Starship/Super Heavy rockets launch from ocean spaceports. Musk made the announcement on Twitter in response to the news that Russia says it will restore the Sea Launch cosmodrome. Russia’s announcement was …
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PortandTerminal.com, August 19, 2020 Viewed over 6 million times, the video features the exact moment when the ship catches the rocket fairing by using a massive net laid out for it. LOS ANGELES – “Aloha, welcome back from space Dizzy symbol,” read Musk’s tweet yesterday, who recently became the fourth richest person in the world after his net-worth jumped $8 …
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PortandTerminal.com, June 2, 2020 HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – A few days ago SpaceX successfully sent its first manned mission to the International Space Stations. Back here on earth, we were also treated to the engineering wonder of watching the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster rocket land upright on a floating platform in the Atlantic ocean. Here it is again in case …
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BLOOMBERG, MAY 30, 2020 Mission opens new era in human spaceflight by private sector | NASA’s Behnken, Hurley on track to arrive Sunday at 10:30 a.m. By Dana Hull and Julie Johnsson for Bloomberg – Two American astronauts are cruising to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX capsule, forging a new landmark for NASA and visionary billionaire Elon Musk. The Dragon capsule …
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PortandTerminal.com, May 30, 2020 BOCA CHICA BEACH, TX — A huge explosion followed by a sonic boom set off car alarms on the South Texas Gulf Coast during a failed test at SpaceX’s rocket testing launchpad near Boca Chica Beach, Texas. Note! This is NOT the rocket that successfully took off yesterday with two astronauts to the Space Station. You can …
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PortandTerminal, July 3, 2019 After more than 18 months of hard work, SpaceX has successfully caught a Falcon fairing in its retrieval vessel’s net for the first time, a huge milestone along the road to payload fairing reusability. SpaceX’s net-equipped retrieval ship, which is called “Ms Tree” (previously called Mr Steven), caught the rocket’s falling payload fairing off the Florida …
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