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Why The River Stinks, Spacex's Epic Week And A Woman Finds Teeth In Her Tacos

... email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Join the Conversation. BDB: Why the river stinks, Space X's epic week and a woman finds teeth in her tacos. Jessica Saggio , FLORIDA TODAY 6:54 a.m. ET March 27, 2017. The residents of Castaway Shores Condominium in Palm Bay have been putting up with a massive amount of foul smelling drift algae piled up along their shore. Video by Malcolm Denemark. Buy Photo. Why does the Indian River stink? Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-lgae. (Photo: Craig Rubadoux/FLORIDA TODAY)Buy Photo. 74 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. So fresh and so clean clean. Happy Monday, everyone. Ahhh, a fresh start to the week. That is, if you don’t live in Castaway Shores. There is nothing fresh about that area right now. That’s right, seaweed strikes again. Here in Brevard, ...

Spacex Signs Lease With Port Canaveral For Booster Refurbishing

... into port around noon Wednesday. The booster is from the August 14 th launch of the JCAT communications satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY. Buy Photo. The booster from the Space X Falcon 9 rocket came into port around noon Wednesday. The booster is from the August 14 th launch of the JCAT communications satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY. Buy Photo. The booster from the Space X Falcon 9 rocket came into port around noon Wednesday. The booster is from the August 14 th launch of the JCAT communications satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY. Buy Photo. Makayla Wheeler from “2 Drone Gals” photographs the booster arrival. The booster from the Space X Falcon 9 rocket came into port around noon Wednesday. The booster is from the August 14 th launch of the JCAT communications satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force ...

China's Secret Plan To Crush Spacex And The Us Space Program

... is now looking to its space program to pay economic dividends as well. Beijing recently set its GDP growth target for 2017 at 6.5 percent — the lowest in 25 years — as an economic boom, long fueled by cheap labor and low-end manufacturing, appears to have reached the limits of its expansion. The march of the unicorns. Though China is home to 43 start-ups worth at least $1 billion, according to CB Insights' "Unicorn List," President Xi has expressed a desire to see more of them, particularly in information technology and network-related businesses, that could serve as China's next growth engine. And there are signs both within and outside of Xi's government, indicating that Beijing believes its space ambitions can provide a boost to both state-owned and private enterprises in China, catalyzing the kinds of technological breakthroughs that will lift both China's global standing and its slowing ...

Spacex Is Pushing Hard To Bring The Internet To Space

... A proposal filed in November shows how the system would actually work: 4,425 satellites in non-geostationary orbit traveling in a tightly choreographed ballet 700 miles above the surface of the Earth, keeping at least one satellite 40 degrees above the horizon at nearly every spot on Earth. a constellation of 4,425 satellites. Companies have long toyed with the idea of a satellite network that delivers data directly to individual devices or small base stations. In the ‘90 s, Motorola backed a similar project called Iridium. But, torn between spiraling investment costs and waning consumer interest, the project went bankrupt just nine months after launch. After an estimated $6 billion in development costs, the firm was bought by investors for $35 million in 2000. Iridium’s main competitor, the Qualcomm-backed Globalstar, met a similar fate. But now the ...

Spacex For History Books & First Core Stage Re-flight

... 1022 to successfully reenter and land, thus making it a perfect battled-hardened test article. Post-flight inspections of the JCSAT-14 core immediately ruled out its ability to fly again, but as Elon Musk noted, the core became the “life leader for ground tests to confirm others are good.”. After initial evaluations inside the LC-39 A HIF, Core 1022 was wrapped up and transported to Mc Gregor. In July, it was hoisted onto the Falcon 9 test stand and topped with a special cap to provide simulated weight for a second stage to aid in the data acquisition process. Notably, Core 1022 was not the first core to see a second life – as the ORBCOMM-2 core was previously static fired on SLC-40 on 14 January 2016 to provide an initial set of data points on a previously-flown core. On 28 July 2016, Core 1022 came back to life, conducting a 2 minute 30 second full duration hot fire test. This was followed by two more full duration hot fires over the next two days. After being removed from the test stand to make room for another core, Core 1022 was then returned to the stand and fired up several more times. All of these tests on an already flown, ...

Spacex Beats Ula On Price For Gps Launch

... system can terminate Space X rocket launches. Before then ULA, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture formed in 2006, was the only U. S. company qualified to perform most national security launches with its Atlas V and Delta IV rockets. Space X's Falcon 9 was certified to bid for missions in 2015. "Space X is proud to have been selected to support this important national security space Mission," said Gwynne Shotwell, Space X president and chief operating officer. "We appreciate the confidence that the U. S. Air Force has placed in our company and we look forward to working together towards the successful launch of another GPS-III mission.". ULA this week repeated its case that the Air Force is placing too much emphasis on price in its evaluations of 15 missions for which it can compete with Space X, a group labeled Phase 1 A. ULA says more weight should be given to its track record of success, which includes more than 100 launches without a major failure, and on-time launches. "United Launch Alliance continues to believe a ...

Spacex Reuses A Rocket To Launch A Satellite

... will also save money: "I try to tell my team to imagine that there was a pallet of cash that was plummeting through the atmosphere, and it was going to burn up and smash into tiny pieces, would you try to save it? Probably yes," he told attendees of last year's Code Conference. That philosophy is why Space X rockets don't crash back to Earth. Instead, they come back and land vertically on a ship in the middle of the ocean (the rockets also can land at the launch site). The company's first ocean landing happened almost exactly a year ago, and Thursday it took that exact same rocket and launched it again. "This is indeed a first," says Michele Franci , the chief technology officer of Inmarsat, a London company that runs a satellite network for tracking ships and planes. Inmarsat is a Space X customer, and Franci says if launch costs come down, companies like his could launch more satellites, more often, and build a better network. But he says that to really ...

Spacex 'super-excited' About Port Canaveral Complex

... Canaveral around noon Wednesday, three days after launching a commercial communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The booster is the fourth that Space X has landed on a ship that was stationed about 400 miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean, in addition to two boosters that have landed on land at the Cape. AP/Malcolm Denemark/ Florida Today. MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY. Buy Photo. The first stage of a Space X Falcon 9 rocket arrives at Port Canaveral around noon Wednesday, three days after launching a commercial communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The booster is the fourth that Space X has landed on a ship that was stationed about 400 miles off shore in the Atlantic Ocean, in addition to two boosters that have landed on land at the Cape. AP/Malcolm Denemark/ Florida Today. MALCOLM DENEMARK/FLORIDA TODAY. Like this topic? You may also like these photo galleries. Space X's Falcon 9 rocket arrives at ...

Spacex And Nasa Are Hunting For Mars Landing Sites

... experiments to the International Space Station for NASA. Space X's intention to get to Mars is hardly secret. Last year, the company tweeted its plans to send Dragon to Mars as early as 2018. But the collaboration provides a glimpse at the company's progress. Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come __link__/u 4 nb VUNCp A. - Space X (@Space X) April 27, 2016. The planned Mars spacecraft will be called Red Dragon. Space X announced last month it plans to send to private citizens in a crewed Dragon in a trip around the moon next year—an important step towards the company's ultimate goal. Dragon currently carries cargo to space. However, the spacecraft was designed from the outset to carry humans. Space X through an agreement with NASA is working on the Dragon to enable it to fly crew. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump signed a bill that updates NASA's mission to include exploration on Mars. However, Musk says the bill won't help accelerate the timeline to get to Mars. Musk, ...