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Title    SpaceX to Launch Five Times in April, Test BFR by 2019
Date    Wednesday March 14 2018, @03:51PM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the busy-little-rockets dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/03/13/194240

takyon writes:

SpaceX will attempt to launch five Falcon 9 rockets in April. This includes an International Space Station (ISS) resupply mission and a mission to launch Bangabandhu-1, Bangladesh's first satellite. The Bangabandhu-1 launch is planned to be the first to use SpaceX's Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, which may be the final major iteration of Falcon 9 before replacement by BFR.

At a South by Southwest (SXSW) panel, Elon Musk said that SpaceX could test the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) "spaceship" as soon as the first half of 2019. The spaceship is the second stage of the complete BFR rocket, would be capable of reaching orbit without the first stage booster, and alone has over 50% more thrust than an entire Falcon 9.

The initial tests would likely be similar to the Grasshopper vertical takeoff and landing tests.

Also at USA Today, MarketWatch, and SpaceNews.


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Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "launch five Falcon 9 rockets" - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/03/spacex-manifest-five-falcon-9-launches-one-month/
  3. "planned" - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/02/first-falcon-9-block-5-readying-static-fire-mcgregor-rapid-reuse/
  4. "Falcon 9 Block 5" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_Full_Thrust#Block_5
  5. "BFR" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)
  6. "could test the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) "spaceship" as soon as the first half of 2019" - http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/space-exploration-technologies/elon-musk-says-1st-flight-spacexs-mars-spaceship-may-happen-2019/
  7. "Grasshopper" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)
  8. "USA Today" - https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/03/11/elon-musk-spacex-mars-spaceships-ready-next-year/414840002/
  9. "MarketWatch" - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-says-spacex-mars-rocket-may-make-first-flight-as-soon-as-next-year-2018-03-11
  10. "SpaceNews" - http://spacenews.com/musk-reiterates-plans-for-testing-bfr/
  11. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=25317

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