Feb 21, 2025 · Should SpaceX not complete its planned flight-testing activity on February 26, 2025, then SpaceX may use the alternate dates to complete its testing activities,” Treviño stated. SpaceX and law enforcement authorities will be coordinating to ensure that no individuals or vehicles are allowed access to these areas during these times of the day.

Mar 3, 2025 · The OTP-2 spacecraft, an 8U spacecraft, will be deployed by SpaceX’s Transporter 13 launch vehicle at an altitude of approximately 510 km. OTP-2 will conduct maneuvers to demonstrate orbit raising and lowering capabilities and test two disparate experimental thruster systems. OTP-2 will also use onboard cameras to map the local space ...

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Feb 26, 2025 · SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, February 26 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission to a lunar transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Also on board this mission is NASA’S Lunar Trailblazer, Astroforge’s Odin, and Epic Aerospace’s CHIMERA GEO 1 spacecraft.

Jan 15, 2015 · SpaceX would love to recover the second stage, which they had planned. But it sounds like they have given up on that. Transcript - Elon Musk at MIT's Aero/Astro Centennial (part 1 of 6) [What about the second stage?] The next generation vehicles after the Falcon architecture will be designed for full reusability.

May 29, 2015 · SpaceX uses an Actor-Judge system to provide triple redundancy to its rockets and spacecraft. The Falcon 9 has 3 dual core x86 processors running an instance of linux on each core. The flight software is written in C/C++ and runs in the x86 environment. For each calculation/decision, the "flight string" compares the results from both cores.

Dec 16, 2024 · A live webcast of this mission will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the new X TV app. This will be the 17th flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06, Inmarsat I6-F2, CRS-28 ...

Mar 3, 2025 · Re: SpaceX F9 : TRACERS Rideshare : VSFB SLC-4E : NET 13 April 2025 « Reply #6 on: 01/30/2025 08:57 pm » NASA's 6U Dione cubesat (previously removed from Transporter-11 and a possible for TSIS-2 ) may be on this launch .

Dec 6, 2024 · SpaceX was the obvious choice due to its combination of affordable cost and impeccable reputation in commercial launches. The decision was confirmed during a presentation to the Parliament's Defence and Budget Committees on 5 February 2024.

Nov 27, 2022 · SpaceX has publicly indicated that the development cost for Falcon 9 launch vehicle was approximately $300 million. Additionally, approximately $90 million was spent developing the Falcon 1 launch vehicle which did contribute to some extent to the Falcon 9, for a total of $390 million.