Saturday, September 10, 2016

Fwd: Musk: No answers so far in ‘difficult’ failure investigation; Second SpaceShipTwo completes first test flight



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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: September 10, 2016 at 11:24:43 AM CDT
To: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Subject: FW: Musk: No answers so far in 'difficult' failure investigation; Second SpaceShipTwo completes first test flight

 

Musk: No answers so far in 'difficult' failure investigation

September 9, 2016

SpaceX is more than a week into a company-led probe of a launch pad explosion Sept. 1 that destroyed a Falcon 9 booster and an Israeli communications satellite, but the investigation so far has turned up no smoking gun on the cause of the mishap, Elon Musk said Friday. 

 

 

Iridium remains fully behind SpaceX as Musk hints at difficult investigation

by Peter B. de Selding — September 9, 2016 

The commercial company with arguably the most at stake in a quick and successful return to flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 8 gave a ringing endorsement of the launch-service provider even as SpaceX founder Elon Musk issued statements saying the investigation will be complicated.

 

 

Elon Musk Asks for Help Solving SpaceX Rocket Explosion

2016, September, 08 23:58

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is asking NASA and the public for help figuring out what happened when one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets exploded on Sept. 1.

 

 

 

 

Photos: India's GSLV fires off the launch pad

September 9, 2016

India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle climbed away from Sriharikota Island on the country's east coast Thursday, delivering a weather satellite into orbit and achieving the third success in a row for the previously-troubled booster. 

 

 

 

Second SpaceShipTwo completes first test flight

by Jeff Foust — September 9, 2016 

Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane made its first flight Sept. 8 as the company takes another step to recover from a fatal 2014 crash.

 

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity Takes 1st Flight with Mothership

2016, September, 09 09:00

A Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo spaceliner took to the air under the wing of its massive mothership Thursday (Sept. 8), marking the first flight test for the private space travel company since a tragic accident in 2014.

 

Virgin Spaceship 'Unity' Takes Flight Mated To WhiteKnightTwo | Video

2016, September, 09 09:24

The new SpaceShipTwo took to the skies on September 8, 2016 for the first time. Performance at high altitude temperatures and air flow around Unity were tested during the flight.

 

Virgin Galactic's 1st VSS Unity Captive Carry Test Flight in Photos

2016, September, 09 03:55

On Sept. 8, 2016, the private spaceflight and space tourism company Virgin Galactic flew its VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo with its Eve mothership for the first time. See photos of the epic test flight here.

 

 

 

Design a 3D-Printed Tool for Astronauts to Use Aboard the Space Station

2016, September, 09 02:22

To make life easier for astronauts, an electronics company is asking college students to design tools that astronauts can 3D print aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

 

 

 

Blue Origin Plans Next New Shepard Test for October

2016, September, 09 01:41

Blue Origin plans to conduct the next flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle in October, a launch that the company's founder says will test the vehicle's abort system.

 

 

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