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SpaceX has launched an ISS cargo mission focused more on new scientific instruments than resupply. The first stage rocket booster was successfully landed on a ground pad at Cape Canaveral:
SpaceX has launched the first private rocket from the same historic site that saw some of NASA's greatest space missions, then landed a booster nearby in a resounding success. The California-based company's Falcon 9 rocket launched a robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station today (Feb. 19) at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center — the same pad that once hosted Apollo moon missions and space shuttle launches. "Liftoff of the Falcon 9 to the space station on the first commercial launch from Kennedy Space Center's historic Pad 39a!" said NASA commentator George Diller.
[...] Some space station additions are traveling in the unpressurized "trunk" of the spacecraft: SAGE-III, an Earth-monitoring tool that will look for ozone in the atmosphere, and a Space Test Program payload including the Lightning Imaging Sensor, which will track lightning worldwide, and Raven, which will collect data to help future spacecraft rendezvous autonomously.
Also at NYT, USA Today, Spaceflight Insider, and TechCrunch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @10:53AM
That $4,000,000,000,000 have to go somewhere. Or are you bitching about a $500,000,000 is soo much? Number from,
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-annual-budget-of-SpaceX [quora.com]
As of December 2013, SpaceX has a total of 50 future launches under contract, two-thirds of them are for commercial customers. In late 2013, space industry media began to comment on the phenomenon that SpaceX prices are undercutting the major competitors in the commercial commsat launch market at which time SpaceX had at least 10 further geostationary orbit flights on its books.
Here's a little "trick" for the you to compare numbers,
500,000,000
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4,000,000,000,000
cut some of the zeros,
50
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400,000
What does this mean? It means if your yearly budget for everything was $400,000, you are bitching about $50.
But then this is over 10 years, soooo you are literally bitching about spending $5 A YEAR on something when you are spending $1100+ PER DAY on other things.