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  WaPo had a pretty write-up: The long-running feud between Elon Musk’s space company and its fierce competitor United Launch Alliance took a bizarre twist this month when a SpaceX employee vi...

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Yeah, this is huge. The quick report, via Bloomberg Business… Elon Musk’s SpaceX showcased his dream of reusable spacecraft by making a Falcon 9 booster the first piece of an orbital rocket t...

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I was bummed to hear of the Falcon 9’s launch failure yesterday. Click here for a frame-by-frame analysis. The images coincide with the initial clue that “an oxidizer tank in the rocket’s u...

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Great news! The U.S. Air Force has certified SpaceX for national security space missions. This milestone is the culmination of a significant two-year effort on the part of the Air Force and Space...

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Nice job by both Thales Space in building a Spacebus 4000C2 in 27 months and by SpaceX for launching it via the Falcon 9 from The Cape yesterday. The spacecraft is going into a slot allocated to ...

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Congrats to ORBCOMM, providers of ReeferTrak and other fine services, on their launch this morning… Thanks to SpaceX for bolting a rocketcam to the fuselage!

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Now we’re getting somewhere. Filing suit in the Court of Federal Claims was the first step, then came the response from United Launch Alliance. And now, at the National Space Symposium in Color...

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The original agreement for the International Space Station was to operate it until 2020. So why is deputy prime minister Rogozin telling NASA to use a trampoline? Thanks to Emily Gertz for pointi...

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Elon Musk is standing up to Russian imperialism: “It’s very questionable in light of international events. It seems like the wrong time to send hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kremlin....

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Today’s launch of SES-8 into GTO made many rocket scientists very happy. Obviously, those who’ve worked at SpaceX for years are ecstatic. The entire launch vehicle community is happy for thei...

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