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SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch: The world's most powerful rocket successfully nails its landing
Tech2 News Staff •The Falcon Heavy rocket blasted off from NASA's historic Pad 39A earlier this morning.
SpaceX delays Falcon Heavy launch of Arabsat-6A to 12 April owing to bad winds
Tech2 News Staff •Arabsat-6A is expected to provide Middle East, Africa & Europe with TV & secure communication services.
SpaceX delays Falcon Heavy's first commercial launch of Arabsat-6A to 10 April
Tech2 News Staff •The launch will be SpaceX's fourth this year & the first of 2 Falcon Heavy launches in 2019.
SpaceX completes first test of a new Raptor engine for its Mars-ready BFR rocket
Tech2 News Staff •The test, short though it was, reveals a lot to the engineers working on its development.
Elon Musk is adamant he wants to live on Mars despite its known threats: report
Ians •Musk said that a voyage to Mars will cost at least a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Elon Musk renames SpaceX's BFR spacecraft for Mars colonisation to Starship
Ians •Instead of upgrading Falcon 9 for more reusability, SpaceX was now focusing on "accelerating BFR".
SpaceX successfully launches the Telstar 19 Vantage for Telesat
Tech2 News Staff •The next mission for SpaceX will also be involving low-earth orbit satellites for Iridium Next.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy wins its very first contract by the US Air Force
Tech2 News Staff •SpaceX's Falcon Heavy can carry nearly twice as much payload as compared to ULA's Delta IV rocket.
SpaceX plans on building a new campus near Kennedy Space Centre to launch 64 rockets in a year
Tech2 News Staff •SpaceX has asked NASA for a 67-acre patch of land and if everything goes as planned then this proposed operation area will be located about a mile from KSC.
SpaceX could be testing its BFR Mars rocket system as early as first half of 2019 says Elon Musk
Tech2 News Staff •Musk still hopes for the BFR to land on Mars in 2022 and the first couple of missions will be focussing on sending just the cargo, followed by humans.