Tesla Motors Club Forum > General Forum > Off Topic SpaceX User Name Remember Me? Password Off Topic Discussion about Off Topic Subjects Page 8 of 12 « First < 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 >   LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes 02-06-2009, 08:51 AM   #71 doug Head Moderator     Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,606 An old talk from 2003. Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Elon Musk, SpaceX - Career Development   03-09-2009, 01:23 PM   #72 TEG Tesla Fan     Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,981 I mistakenly assumed that having it on the pad meant launch happening very soon, but apparently it is still a ways off... Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | New SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket tests its Cape Canaveral pad Quote: ...The Falcon 9, which weighs more than 30,000 pounds empty, was raised vertically ... for two days of fit checks. Quote: ...But engineers have a long road ahead before clearing the rocket is ready to head skyward this summer. "It has some more paces to go through. This rocket will come down, it will be disassembled, and then pieces will go back to either test sites or Hawthorne, get into final configuration for flight, and then be returned for the first flight sequence," said Tim Buzza, vice president of launch operations. Launch Schedules. Quote: August: Cassiope 1 launcher: Falcon 9   03-09-2009, 02:33 PM   #73 dpeilow Super Moderator     Join Date: May 2008 Location: Winchester, UK Posts: 2,975 It was always billed as a 'fit check'. You missed this one: Quote: July: Dragon 1 launcher: Falcon IX launch site: mission:   03-09-2009, 05:33 PM   #74 TEG Tesla Fan     Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,981 Oh those darn rocket people - switching between Roman numerals and Arabic/Western digits. You think they would would be very careful about standardization! (I only searched on "Falcon 9", not "Falcon IX"!)   03-16-2009, 06:40 PM   #75 doug Head Moderator     Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,606 SpaceX Falcon 1 (Flight 4 - High Roller) High Quality Space Exploration Technologies Corporation - Video Gallery ahh.. a bit of Crystal Method goes a long way...   03-18-2009, 08:57 PM   #76 doug Head Moderator     Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stanford, California Posts: 3,606 Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | SpaceX announces plans for next Falcon 1 launch Quote: Parts of SpaceX's next Falcon 1 rocket are en route to the booster's remote island launch site for the company's first commercial mission due for liftoff on April 20.   03-18-2009, 10:54 PM   #77 graham Super Moderator     Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Aptos, California Posts: 1,551 Quote: The 3,000-pound structure was then loaded aboard a transport vessel for the 5,000-mile voyage to Kwajalein. They could get it there a lot faster if they would just light the fuse...   04-17-2009, 03:21 AM   #78 dpeilow Super Moderator     Join Date: May 2008 Location: Winchester, UK Posts: 2,975 SpaceX to Launch Argentinean Satellites on Falcon 9 Rockets :: Satellite Today Quote: [Satellite Today 04-17-09] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) signed an agreement with Argentina’s National Commission on Space Activity (CONAE), for two launches aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX announced April 16. The flights will send the Saocom 1A and 1B Earth observation satellites into sun-synchronous orbits, with a mission to provide imagery for natural resources monitoring, as well as emergency and disaster management. The two satellites will join four X-band SAR Cosmo-SkyMed satellites from the Italian Space Agency, creating the Italian-Argentine System of Satellites for Emergency Management constellation. The first three of the ASI satellites were launched in 2007 and 2008 with the fourth expected to fly in 2010.   04-26-2009, 11:04 PM   #79 TEG Tesla Fan     Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 5,981 YouTube Video   04-27-2009, 09:36 AM   #80 vfx ERIC VFX     Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: CA Posts: 4,651 Quote: Originally Posted by TEG YouTube Video Nicely done. My compliments to the Director and especially the Editor. __________________ . . . . . . The world loves to be deceived.   Page 8 of 12 « First < 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 > Bookmarks del.icio.us Digg StumbleUpon Google Tags elon musk, spacex « Previous Thread | Next Thread » Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page Display Modes Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode Posting Rules You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Trackbacks are On Pingbacks are On Refbacks are On Forum Rules All times are GMT -7. The time now is 12:48 PM. Mark Forums Read | View Forum Leaders Click here to learn about advertising! Contact Us - Tesla Motors Club - Archive - Top | Home | Register | FAQ | Today's Posts | Search | New Posts |

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