• The SpaceX fairing recovery program was an experimental program by SpaceX, begun in 2017 in an effort to determine if it might be possible to economically...
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    support of nine missions of the SpaceX fairing recovery program. The vessel can accommodate a single Falcon 9 fairing half in the Dragon egress area....
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    retrieve them in the 2010s with a fairing recovery program. On March 30, 2017, SpaceX successfully retrieved a fairing intact for the first time in history...
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  • flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. The prototype vehicles expected to be flown are the Ship 31 upper-stage and Booster 13. SpaceX is expected...
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  • spaceflight—Isaacman contracted with SpaceX to establish Polaris. The program involves two missions using SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft and is planned...
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    cost savings to SpaceX of recovering the fairing is expected to be on the order of US$5 million. Together, the booster stage and the fairing make up approximately...
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    company SpaceX. On April 20, 2023, with the first Integrated Flight Test, Starship became the most massive and most powerful vehicle ever to fly. SpaceX has...
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    2024. Retrieved 11 September 2024. "STARSHIPS ARE MEANT TO FLY – SpaceX – Updates". spacex.com. 10 September 2024. Archived from the original on 10 September...
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    multiple missions, with a record of 23 missions by a booster. SpaceX has also reflown fairing halves more than 300 times, with some being reflown for at...
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    avoidance maneuvers. SpaceX subsequently fixed an issue with its paging system that had disrupted emails between the ESA and Spacex. The ESA said it plans...
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  • Starshield, SpaceX readies for battle". SpaceNews. Archived from the original on 2024-02-23. Retrieved 2023-09-10. "SpaceX - Starshield". www.spacex.com. Archived...
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    on last SpaceX launch". Spaceflight Now. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021. "SpaceX evolving fairing recovery plans,...
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    The SpaceX Kestrel was an LOX/RP-1 pressure-fed rocket engine. The Kestrel engine was developed in the 2000s by SpaceX for upper stage use on the Falcon...
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    Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX. They are currently a part of the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles, and were formerly...
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    American private space transportation company SpaceX. The first variant, later named Dragon 1, flew 23 cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS)...
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    This is a corporate history of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company founded by Elon Musk. After being ousted...
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    2012-11-13. "Spacex's Merlin 1D Engine Achieves Full Mission Duration Firing". SpaceX. June 25, 2012. Rosenberg, Zach (2012-03-16). "SpaceX readies upgraded...
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    range of space missions. Starship is the latest project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars. SpaceX calls the...
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    2010, with grants mostly won by SpaceX and partially by Blue Origin) and the Artemis HLS program (awarded to SpaceX in 2021 and also to Blue Origin in...
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    Raptor is a family of rocket engines developed and manufactured by SpaceX. It is the third rocket engine in history designed with a full-flow staged combustion...
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    attempt to recover Falcon 9's first stage after launch. "SpaceX pushes boundaries of fairing recovery with breathtaking sunrise launch [photos]". teslarati...
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    SpaceX Mars colonization program (colloquially also referred to as Occupy Mars) is a planned objective of the company SpaceX and particularly of its founder...
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    The SpaceX Draco is a hypergolic liquid rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX for use in their space capsules. Two engine types have been built to...
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    ambition: SpaceX aim for fully reusable Falcon 9". NASASpaceFlight.com. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2017. "Fairing Recovery Attempts"...
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    2023[update], SpaceX operates four launch facilities: Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex...
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  • Starship flight test 3 was the third flight test of the SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. SpaceX performed the flight test on March 14, 2024. Starship successfully...
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    FLY - SpaceX - Updates". spacex.com. September 10, 2024. Archived from the original on September 10, 2024. Retrieved September 10, 2024. "SpaceX launch...
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  • Elon Musk's and SpaceX employees' two-decade mission to send NASA astronauts back to the International Space Station and revolutionize space travel. The film...
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    technology. By the late 2010s, SpaceX became the world's dominant space launch provider, rivaling the Chinese space program's launch cadance and eclipsed...
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    of the SpaceX Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle, which it composes in combination with the Starship second stage. As a part of SpaceX's Mars colonization...
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