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SpaceX Test Fires Recovered Falcon 9 Booster in Major Step To Reusable Rockets
Universe Today - 17 Jan 2016 04:11
In a major advance towards the dream of rocket reusability, SpaceX successfully test fired the first stage engines of the Falcon 9 booster they successfully recovered last month - following its launch to the edge of spac...
SpaceX Launching NASA Jason-3 Ocean Surveillance Satellite Jan. 17; with Barge Rocket Landing - Watch Live
Universe Today - 17 Jan 2016 08:03
The joint NASA-European ocean surveillance satellite named Jason-3 is poised for blastoff from SpaceX's California launch pad on Sunday, Jan. 17 - followed immediately by another Falcon 9 rocket recovery landing on a bar...
A Game Is Lost on the Torque and Parabola of an Isotropic Disk
Bad Astronomy - 18 Jan 2016 01:53
Over the weekend, the Green Bay Packers lost in a heartbreaking overtime (American) football game to the Arizona Cardinals. In a game filled with a lot of odd events (a Hail Mary pass to the end zone that led to a tie-ma...
SpaceX fails to stick ocean landing after satellite launch
Phys.org - 18 Jan 2016 00:45
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket broke apart Sunday as it tried to land on a floating platform in the Pacific, marking the fourth such failure in the company's bid to recycle rockets.
SpaceX Puts Jason-3 In Orbit and Almost Lands First Stage On A Barge
SpaceRef - 18 Jan 2016 00:43
The Jason-3 Satellite was successfully place in orbit today by a Falcon 9. However while that rocket's first stage landed within 1.3 meters of its target on the barge leg #3 did not lock properly....
Support leg breaks as SpaceX rocket lands on ocean barge (Update)
Phys.org - 18 Jan 2016 00:41
After successfully delivering a U.S.-European ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit, a Space X rocket made a hard landing on a floating barge in the roiling Pacific, breaking a support leg and toppling over Sunday.
Jason-3 Launches to Monitor Global Sea Level Rise
NASA Breaking news - 18 Jan 2016 00:2890% Extinct! --"Was Largest of Earth's Five Mass Extinctions Caused By Microbes?" (Weekend Feature)
The Daily Galaxy - 18 Jan 2016 00:20
Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out -- by far the largest of this plan...
NASA Jason-3 Sea Level Rise Reconnaissance Satellite Successfully Blasts off on SpaceX Falcon 9; Hard Landing on Barge
Universe Today - 18 Jan 2016 00:15
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the NASA/NOAA/European Jason-3 sea level rise reconnaissance satellite a short while ago today, Sunday, Jan. 17, from Vandenberg Air Force Base into a polar orbit around the...
Falcon 9 Launches Jason-3 Satellite, Landing Attempt Fails
Space News - 17 Jan 2016 23:16
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched an ocean science satellite Jan. 17, although an attempt to land the rocket's first stage on a ship apparently failed. SpaceNews.com
Blast-Off! SpaceX Launches Jason-3 Satellite Through Fog | Video
SPACE.com - 17 Jan 2016 23:07
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the NASA satellite on Jan. 17th, 2016. At the time of this video post, there was no confirmation of the planned first stage landing on a SpaceX ocean barge.
SpaceX Photos: Jason-3 Satellite Launch and Falcon 9 Rocket Landing
SPACE.com - 17 Jan 2016 23:06
On Jan. 17, 2015, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and the Jason-3 ocean-mapping satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, while also attempting a rocket landing. See photos from the mission here.
NASA/Curiosity Mission: "We're Missing Something Important About Mars" (Weekend Feature)
The Daily Galaxy - 17 Jan 2016 20:50
The mismatch between the predictions of Mars's ancient climate that arise from models developed by paleoclimatologists and indications of the planet's watery past, as interpreted by geologists, bears similarities to a ce...
SpaceX Will Attempt a Second Booster Landing Today... Over the Ocean
Bad Astronomy - 17 Jan 2016 18:15
SpaceX will attempt to launch a very important satellite today (Sunday Jan. 17, 2015); Jason-3, a NASA/NOAA bird that will measure the height of the ocean surface. The launch will be from the Vandenberg Space Launch Comp...
SpaceX to Launch Jason-3 Satellite, Try Rocket Landing Today: Watch Live
SPACE.com - 17 Jan 2016 17:09
The private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch an ocean-measuring satellite for NASA today (Jan. 17), and then attempt to land a rocket on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean, and you can watch the flight live online.