Three Guys, Three Shovels, One Launchpad

Let’s continue the whole SpaceX/Texas spaceport theme a little bit more. Last week there were a few posts on this site about SpaceX’s move of launch operations near Brownsville, Texas. According to The Register, SpaceX broke ground on the future launch site Monday, 22 Sept 14. Texas is giving SpaceX a little over $15 million to build […]

SpaceX–Ya Win Some and Ya Lose Some

It’s been a week of ups and downs this last week for SpaceX. Since Friday, SpaceX have been trying their darndest to get a Falcon 9 launched out of Florida, but still haven’t launched as of this writing. At the same time, one of their tests of the Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) in the paradise of McGregor, […]

Pictures of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy

One of the problems with the SpaceX booth at the 30th Space Symposium last week is they only displayed their Falcon 9 rocket (and the landing legs were the wrong color–black–instead of the white a real Falcon 9 booster is painted with). Of course, it’s the only rocket that SpaceX uses so far. The other problem, by the […]