https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/22/1...-1-test-flight
NASA gives SpaceX the okay to launch new passenger spacecraft on uncrewed test flight
Crew Dragon’s first flight is a week away
https://www.inverse.com/article/5350...y-heating-ever
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Just Survived Its Highest Reentry Heating Ever
SpaceX has completed one of its most challenging missions yet. The company launched what may become the world’s first
privately-owned lunar landertoward the surface of the moon on Thursday, before successfully landing the Falcon 9 rocket with the highest reentry heating ever. The rocket took off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 8:45 p.m. Eastern as scheduled, landing eight minutes and 48 seconds later.
The landing marks another successful milestone for SpaceX, which aims to refine its landing technology to save more rockets and reduce costs further. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk noted that the company’s video feed showed burning metal sparks, while manufacturing engineer Jessie Anderson said during the feed that the landing on the
Of Course I Still Love You droneship was completed despite “challenging conditions.” The mission was the third for the rocket in question, a “Block 5” core dubbed “B1048” that previously flew on the
July 25 Iridium NEXT-7and the
October 8 SAOCOM 1A missions last year.