Comments on: Greetings from SpaceX

By: Blake Robinson

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:33:15 +0000

Thought this deserved revisiting today as SpaceX, just launched its first commercial satellite into orbit (event:http://bit.ly/13Oshw).

By: different Mark

different Mark — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:07:53 +0000

What I’m wondering is: at the bargain basement price of $35M, who’s going to develop and send up an asteroid mining robot probe and bring back some loot? That’ll blow the doors wide open on this ‘outer space’ thing.

By: Michael Martin-Smith

Michael Martin-Smith — Sun, 06 May 2007 00:16:53 +0000

Rick, You’re quite right ;Falcon 9 has 9 Merlin engines,and could put c 10 tons into LEO; the Falcon 9 “Heavy” has also two strap on boosters,and is aimed to launch 28 tons into LEO- beating Delta 4,and Ariane 5 .It is aiming for a demo flight in c 2010- just in time for Robert Bigelow’s larger successors to his inflatable Genesis 1 and 2 space modules. We could see a true private space industry- of mostly re-usable man rated launchers and space habitats within 8-10 years, at this rate
All very intersting; Iam saving up for my suborbital flight, and making modest preparations by learning tofly gliders. Did my first “loop the loop”- under instruction- 10days ago, pulling 3.3 G- a useful start??

By: Rick Dickinson

Rick Dickinson — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:41:28 +0000

I’m pretty sure that the “9″ in Falcon-9 refers to the number of engines.

By: Chris Nixon

Chris Nixon — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:39:55 +0000

Those Bluth boys really do get everywhere!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:11:53 +0000

What happened to Falcon 2-8?

By: gavin.

gavin. — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:09:17 +0000

haha.

dork.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 01 May 2007 19:05:03 +0000

Looking at that picture, seems like somebody just told you Blake (pointing at the big stainless steel canister) that it’s a new soylent green factory component!

Jon