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We have a load of SpaceX updates to share with you today. SpaceX Starship MK3 development, Falcon 9 CRS-19 Dragon mission, and Orion has been transported for testing with the Super Guppy aircraft. Since the explosion happened the other week and destroyed the MK1 starship, there’s a lot of new plans taking place with SpaceX Starship MK3 development. A very interesting Falcon 9 launch coming up which is the nineteenth commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station. And then on top of all this, the Orion capsule that is destined to fly on the first Artemis mission arrived for some intense testing inside the largest vacuum chamber in the world at Plum Brook Station.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon astronaut spacecraft successfully fired its launch-escape engines on the ground on Wednesday (Nov. 13) at the company's facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida — paving the way for a high-altitude rocket escape test and demonstrating engineers have apparently fixed the problem that triggered an explosion during a similar ground firing in April. If that test flight goes well, SpaceX is then poised to fly humans on the Crew Dragon for the first time next year.

SpaceX Update: Europe To Challenge Elon Musk’s Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy In Reusable Rocketry SPACEX UPDATE: EUROPE TO CHALLENGE ELON MUSK’S FALCON 9, FALCON HEAVY IN REUSABLE ROCKETRY

Nevertheless, we've been limited to expensive single-use spacecraft. Commercial companies like SpaceX and government agencies like NASA are working toward creating reusable spacecraft. SpaceX's Falcon9 and Falcon Heavy are already proving that the concept works, while NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) has yet to take its maiden voyage.
For years, European space companies have been complaining: SpaceX prices are impossible to beat!
In fact, booking a ride on a new Falcon 9 rocket rides costs $62 million while rides on Falcon 9 equipped with reused rockets are going for as low as $50 million. That's less than half the cost of launch on the heavy-lift Ariane 5 from Airbus subsidiary Arianespace, for dual launches to geostationary transfer orbit.

While it's still a couple of years out at least, SpaceX has been doing the important paperwork detailing their plans to launch Starship and Super Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Welcome to another Episode of What about it!? In this episode, we'll talk about Jupiters great red spot fading, Starhoppers new Raptor Engine, TWOSPACEX Falcon 9 Moon shots and a sample return mission from ESA!

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SpaceX is targeting Saturday, May 4 for an instantaneous launch of its seventeenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-17) at 2:48 a.m. EDT, or 6:48 UDT, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Elon has recently tweeted that SpaceX is going to reuse the second stage of Falcon 9, how are we going to do that? 

Elon Musk's First Step to Mars!

We have all watched SpaceX's Rapid Progress over the last decade. Well, what can we say to all other space launch providers apart from... Beat This! This video is a showcase of some of the most inspirational SpaceX material I've been able to splice together. As Elon Musk says, "Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
I doubt we could find as many examples of persistence than with SpaceX. Elon Musk has visions that are nothing short of revolutionary. As he so eloquently states... "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

I hope you enjoy my interpretation of SpaceX's amazing journey from the early 2000's to 2019.

Check out the Most AMAZING Recent SpaceX Achievements! From the latest spacex hopper and falcon 9 to elon musk sending a tesla on a rocket in space, this top 10 list of incredible space missions done by spacex will amaze you! 

Three years after a spectacular on-pad explosion that destroyed an Israeli communications satellite, SpaceX boosted a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Thursday night. The satellite will provide broadcast, broadband and high-speed data services across Africa. Watch the launch here.

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At 6:01 p.m. EDT, or 22:01 UTC, on Thursday, July 25, SpaceX launched its eighteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-18) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Dragon separated from Falcon 9’s second stage about nine minutes after liftoff.

A beautiful machine! The paint on American Flag looks like new! Definitely the best looking Flight Proven Booster ever! 

NASA's resupply mission with SpaceX Falcon 9's Cargo Dragon spacecraft is delivering the next round of experiments to the ISS including a student proposed DNA sequencing experiment.

SpaceX makes first stage recovery and reuse look routine these days. In March, Elon Musk said he wants to start trying to recover and reuse the second stage!