The Pentagon is allowing SpaceX to send a national security satellite to orbit with a reused rocket for the first time. SpaceX is set to launch the GPS III SV05 satellite via Falcon 9 soon.
The Pentagon is allowing SpaceX to send a national security satellite to orbit using Falcon 9, which launched GPS III SV04 last year. The reusable rocket is set to launch GPS III SV05 on Thursday.
Elon Musk’s Starlink is vying with OneWeb to put faster Wi-Fi on commercial airplanes. The satellite internet network also wants to test test their new Starlink dish in 5 US states.
There are now two SpaceX Dragon spacecraft aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after the CRS-22 mission recently docked delivering new solar arrays and research experiment supplies.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will bring Dragon spacecraft, filled with more than 7,300 pounds of research, crew supplies, and hardware to the International Space Station.
Elon Musk said interplanetary transport engines can generate 500,000 pounds of thrust. This is critical to SpaceX's intentions to assist NASA in its plan to bring Americans back to the moon and then even moving on to Mars.