TITUSVILLE, FL – End of an Era! With no advance notice SpaceX announced that todays launch was the final one for Starlink satellites on the venerable Falcon 9 rocket from the Florida Space Coast on Aug. 25 On Aug. 26, I was interviewed live on FOX 35 Orlando on the End of an Era with the Starlink Falcon 9 rocket
TITUSVILLE, FL – End of an Era! With no advance notice SpaceX announced that todays predawn launch on the venerable Falcon 9 rocket was the final one for Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Florida Space Coast on Wednesday, Aug. 26 The blastoff involved the record breaking 37th launch for SpaceX Falcon 9 booster B1067 on the
TITUSVILLE, FL – On Aug. 21, I was interviewed live on FOX 35 Orlando about President Trump’s Administrations new plan to get to 3 rocket launches per day in America On a few minutes notice for the live interview, we discussed the Trump administration new space policy directive seeking to implement 1000 rocket launches per year by 2030. They also
SATELLITE BEACH, FL – On Aug. 17, I was interviewed live on FOX 35 Orlando about SpaceX rapid launch cadence including two launches this past Sat Aug 15 with bicoastal liftoffs of their Falcon 9 rocket just 38.5 minutes apart from the Florida Space Coast and California. Also the launch and landing on Aug 15 at pad 40 on Cape Canaveral
TITUSVILLE, FL – Blue Origin announced the space company is now building a second New Glenn launch pad at Space Launch Complex 36 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, according to a press release issued today, Aug 12 The announcement of construction of Launch Complex 36B (LC-36B) comes on the heels of Blue Origin rapidly rebuilding LC-36A which was substantially destroyed
TITUSVILLE, FL – On Aug. 7, I was interviewed live on FOX 35 Orlando about significant progress made toward stabilizing the commercial robotic LINK mission aiming to save NASA Swift space telescope from demise – via reboost to higher orbit LINK had suffered a setback post-launch when it started rotating significantly during the commissioning phase in late July The rotation
TITUSVILLE, FL – On July 23, I was interviewed live on FOX 13 Tampa Bay about the 2nd attempt to launch the 13th SpaceX Starship test flight from Starbase, Texas shortly before the then planned liftoff on July 23. Bad weather intervened and SpaceX then rescheduled the liftoff to July 24 The first attempt to launch Starship 13th test flight
TITUSVILLE, FL – On July 22, I was interviewed live on FOX 35 Orlando about the 2nd attempt to launch the 13th SpaceX Starship test flight from Starbase, Texas shortly before the then planned liftoff on July 23. Bad weather intervened and SpaceX then rescheduled the liftoff to July 24 The first attempt to launch Starship 13th test flight was
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – A trailblazing robotic mission dubbed MRV-MEP aimed at extending the operational lifetime of aging, ailing and malfunctioning satellites residing in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) lifted off from the Florida Space Coast on a hot sunny Tuesday afternoon on July 21 atop a veteran SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on its final flight. This flight also
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, FL – A ground breaking robotic mission dubbed MRV-MEP has the goal of extending the lifetime of aging, ailing and malfunctioning satellites residing in geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and is aiming for liftoff on atop a veteran SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on July 21 from the Florida Space Coast. This flight also counts as a very