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	SpaceX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SpaceX is developing a family of mostly reusable two stage, kerosene/liquid oxygen launch vehicles.
		SpaceX reported that the rocket and its satellite were destroyed during the ascent after about a minute of powered flight.
		The SpaceX Dragon is a conventional blunt-cone ballistic capsule, capable of carrying 7 people or a mixture of personnel and cargo, to and from low earth orbit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SpaceX (1616 words)

	Hidden Nook: SpaceX Delays (Rocket Damage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, fueled up its partially reusable Falcon 1 rocket for liftoff from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, on a mission to put the FalconSat 2 plasma-monitoring satellite into orbit for the U.S. Air Force Academy.
		SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk, the creator of Pay Pal (which he later sold to Ebay).
		Although he has faced many setbacks with SpaceX (both physical and legal) Musk is determined to enable mankind to leave his cradle and eventually take his place among the stars.
	hiddennook.blogspot.com /2005/12/spacex-delays-rocket-damage.html (452 words)

	Hondas in Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SpaceX is a place where innovation is a state of mind.
		SpaceX is a creative mix of new school and old school, of dotcom and DEFCON, of 1999 and 1969.
		Yet SpaceX is not about low cost at any cost; it is the yin and yang of Musk's practicality and his willingness to spend when necessary that gives SpaceX an edge.
	www.fastcompany.com /magazine/91/honda.html (3195 words)

	SpaceX Falcon
		One such company, SpaceX, has said that its goal is to reduce the cost and increase the reliability of launching payloads into space by a factor of ten.
		In September 2004, SpaceX was one of four companies to receive a contract from DARPA and the USAF to demonstrate low-cost, highly responsive launch technology.
		Under this contract, SpaceX is to demonstrate the ability to reduce on-pad processing time by 50 percent compared to the standard Falcon 1 launcher.
	www.globalsecurity.org /space/systems/falcon-spacex.htm (468 words)

	SpaceX’s first launch delayed again - Space News - MSNBC.com
		SpaceX developed its partially reusable Falcon 1 rocket as a low-cost alternative in a space launch industry dominated by aerospace giants Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. This first-ever launch is being funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, with a payload sponsored by the Air Force.
		SpaceX also is working on a fully reusable, heavy-lift version of the Falcon that could loft payloads or even people to the international space station and beyond.
		SpaceX also filed a lawsuit against Boeing and Lockheed Martin, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by forging a new joint venture to seek government launch contracts.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/10218220 (905 words)

	Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
		SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to substantially reduce the cost of reliable access to space.
		Following this vehicle, SpaceX plans to develop a large three stage rocket using the first and second stages of the Falcon vehicle as its second and third stages.
		While drawing upon the ideas of many prior launch vehicle programs from Apollo to the X-34/Fastrac, SpaceX is privately developing the entire Falcon rocket from the ground up, including both engines, the turbo-pump, the cryogenic tank structure and the guidance system.
	www.spacex.com (235 words)

	SpaceX schedules its maiden rocket launch - Space.com - MSNBC.com
		SpaceX is using the debut of its Falcon 1 rocket to launch FalconSat 2, a student-built satellite to measure space plasma’s effect on Global Positioning System satellites and other space-based communications systems, according to the U.S. Air Force Academy.
		SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket has a four-hour window to launch FalconSat 2 into an orbit that is expected to reach an altitude of about 310 miles (500 kilometers) at its highest point.
		Musk said SpaceX also expects to unveil plans for a rocket engine he dubbed “the largest one in the world” in February 2006, as well as compete for NASA’s commercial cargo contracts — and potentially crew flights as well — to resupply the international space station.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10101621?from=astrowire.com (1124 words)

	SPACE.com -- SpaceX to Tackle Fully Reusable Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle
		A key goal of SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of ten.
		SpaceX, headquartered in El Segundo, California, is bankrolled and run by Elon Musk, a successful entrepreneur that among past activities co-founded PayPal, a leading electronic payment system.
		The SpaceX Merlin 2 engine will benefit from a very significant thrust upgrade and also be considerably cheaper per pound of thrust than Merlin 1, he said.
	www.space.com /news/050908_spacex_falcon.html (638 words)

	Carried Away: Space
		SpaceX's new rockets would make such a constellation a lot cheaper to put on orbit than was contemplated for Teledesic, and a Son of Teledesic constellation would provide ample steady business to SpaceX, as it wrings the costs out of space launch.
		SpaceX has made its first public move on human spaceflight by signing a two year Space Act Agreement with NASA to "research strategies for future human spaceflight systems for exploration missions and commercial space access." See the NASA Johnson press release.
		SpaceX announced the Falcon V at the unveiling of the Falcon I, and the Falcon V first will fly a little over a year after the Falcon I. But that blazingly fast turnaround was made possible by the fact that the Falcon I and Falcon V share engines.
	carriedaway.blogs.com /carried_away/space (13247 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Cape launch site could host new commercial rocket fleet
		SpaceX has begun a year-long bureaucratic safety and environmental review that will, if all goes well, lead to a rejuvenation of the pads to support the Falcon 1 and Falcon 5 rockets.
		SpaceX, which named its rockets after the Star Wars Millennium Falcon, already has launch sites at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and the U.S. government's Kwajalein locale in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific.
		SpaceX's inaugural rocket is undergoing final preparations on the Space Launch Complex 3-West pad at Vandenberg.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /falcon/050120lc36 (1089 words)

	Cosmic Log: A vote for hydrogen power - Cosmic Log - MSNBC.com
		SpaceX set for launch: After several days of launch-pad tests and tweaks, SpaceX has scheduled the next attempt to launch its Falcon 1 rocket for Thursday, from a Pacific island complex in Kwajalein Atoll.
		SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket fires its engine for a few seconds on Tuesday as part of a launch-pad test on Omelek Island in the Pacific.
		SpaceX tests its rocket: The fledgling SpaceX rocket company is running through a series of preflight tests for its never-been-launched Falcon 1, at its launch pad on Omelek Island in the Pacific Ocean's Kwajalein Atoll.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3217961 (3167 words)

	AWST STORY
		SpaceX wants to fly up to three Falcon I missions in 2004 at a $5.9-million list price per flight to compete directly against Orbital Sciences Corp. (OSC) in the small-payload market as it develops the heavier capability to take on Boeing.
		SpaceX is "attacking the culture" of the entrenched launcher contracting structure, which at times has resisted even simple innovative changes, said Michael Griffin, who has just been appointed head of the Space Dept. at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.
		SpaceX has been trying to improve one liquid oxygen parameter in the pump, the "suction specific speed" at the oxygen impeller.
	www.aviationnow.com /avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/03294top.xml (2444 words)

	SpaceX Falcon Rocket to Be Unveiled Today Washington
		SpaceX will bring the entire seven-story high rocket and its mobile launch system to the nation's capital as part of the celebrations marking the hundred-year anniversary of manned flight.
		SpaceX expects to launch the Falcon in early 2004 from the SpaceX launch complex at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
		Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to ultimately reduce the cost and increase the reliability of access to space by a factor of ten.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/rocketscience-03zzq.html (450 words)

	Reusable Launch System Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		SpaceX is a recent player in the private launch market which has partially reusable vehicles.
		SpaceX Falcon 1 (announced as partially reusable; maiden flight scheduled for late March, 2006)
		SpaceX Falcon 5/Falcon 9 (announced as fully reusable; maiden flight scheduled for 1st quarter, 2008)
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/Reusable_launch_system (1961 words)

	SPACEX announces the Falcon 9.
		SpaceX initially intended to follow its first vehicle development, Falcon 1, with the intermediate class Falcon 5 launch vehicle.
		With its launch complex in the Marshall Islands, SpaceX is the only US heavy launch provider with a launch site close to the equator, providing an advantage for equatorial satellite launch.
		SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of ten.
	www.thespacerace.com /forum/index.php?topic=1007.msg8264;topicseen (702 words)

	Dispatches from the Final Frontier: SpaceX prelaunch conference
		SpaceX's second Gen rocket engine will be the biggest rocket engine in the world, though not the biggest in history.
		SpaceX's lawsuit against Boeing and Lockheed: Musk doesn't want to comment much because its in progress.
		SpaceX will vigorously pursue the new commercial contracts to service the ISS that NASA has announced its intention to award by the end of this year.
	michaelbelfiore.com /blog/2005/11/spacex-prelaunch-conference.html (1482 words)

	The Final Frontier At Costco Prices
		SpaceX is fighting hard to block the monopoly in the courts and at the Federal Trade Commission, which must approve the deal.
		SpaceX's under-$7 million small-payload launches cost one-third to one-half of Orbital Sciences' prices, according to data compiled by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
		SpaceX is slated to launch a spy satellite on an EELV-class booster in early 2007 -- thus qualifying to compete for EELV launches in 2007 and later years.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/05_50/b3963146.htm (1477 words)

	Space
		SpaceX is developing three rockets -- the Falcon 1, Falcon 5 and Falcon 9.
		SpaceX is offering launch services at prices that are 50 to 80 percent less than its competitors.
		Those plans changed when SpaceX decided to develop the Falcon 9, a rocket that will be too large to launch from complex 36.
	www.floridatoday.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051228/NEWS02/512280340 (764 words)

	HobbySpace - An Interview with Elon Musk
		The small payload market has not grown as expected a few years ago but with a launch price at a third to a fourth of what competing vehicles charge, the Falcon will test the theory that only high launch costs are holding back a great wave of small sats projects.
		SpaceX recently test fired their second stage engine, named Kestrel.
		SpaceX intends to work hard to reinstate those programs now that Falcon is available.
	www.hobbyspace.com /AAdmin/archive/Interviews/Systems/ElonMusk.html (2738 words)

	Technorati Tag: SpaceX
		SpaceX is about to launch the Falcon 1 rocket...
		SpaceX's Falcon 1 was lost during its first stage burn earlier today.
		SpaceX trying again Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies has set a new launch window for the maiden flight of the Falcon 1 rocket: sometime...
	technorati.com /tag/SpaceX (406 words)

	Carried Away
		SpaceX issued the following statement: "We had a successful liftoff and Falcon made it well clear of the pad, but unfortunately the vehicle was lost in the first stage burn.
		Apparently, SpaceX has been working on this for some time, but there's no indication of how far along SpaceX is in designing and manufacturing.
		Other SpaceX teammates include Houston-based Spacehab, ARES Corp. of Burlingame, Calif., Odyssey Space Research of Houston, and Paragon Space Development Corp., a Tucson, Ariz.-based firm that also is helping Lockheed Martin with its Crew Exploration Vehicle life-support system design.
	carriedaway.blogs.com (1941 words)

	NBC 4 - News - El Segundo Company SpaceX Launches Rocket On Friday
		Designed from the ground up by SpaceX, Falcon 1 is a two-stage rocket powered by liquid oxygen and purified, rocket grade kerosene.
		SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to increase the reliability and reduce the cost of access to space by a factor of 10.
		SpaceX is the third company founded by Elon Musk, who previously co-founded PayPal, an electronic payment system that was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.
	www.nbc4.tv /news/5402400/detail.html?subid=10101581 (455 words)

	Big plans for SpaceX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One change that SpaceX does plan, he noted, was to replace the ablative engine chamber with a regeneratively-cooled one.
		Of particular near-term interest for SpaceX is NASA’s plans to solicit proposals for commercial ISS crew and cargo transportation.
		SpaceX right now has about 160 employees, including about 40 working on propulsion, 30 on avionics, 30 on structures, and 50 in manufacturing.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1521975/posts (2014 words)

	SpaceX Delays Maiden Flight of Falcon 1 Rocket
		Although SpaceX engineers were eventually able to refill the vehicle LOX tanks, the rate at which they could add helium was slower than the rate at which LOX was boiling away.
		In addition, SpaceX experienced an anomaly with the main engine computer that requires further investigation and was arguably reason in and of itself to postpone launch.
		SpaceX developed its partially reusable Falcon 1 rocket as a low-cost alternative in a space launch industry dominated by aerospace giants Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp.
	www.physorg.com /news8499.html (886 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| SpaceX starting small as it dreams of grand plans
		CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Elon Musk conceived SpaceX to offer low-cost access to space, give a boost to what he calls a "stagnate" industry that has failed to evolve since Apollo and build toward the goal of launching human space voyages.
		SpaceX has been selling its small Falcon 1 rocket for $5.9 million and the beefed up Falcon 5 for $15.8 million, plus launch site Range fees, which is significantly cheaper than other American rockets available today with comparable lifting capacity.
		To substantially increase the amount of cargo SpaceX can launch, the company is developing the Falcon 5 that resembles a big brother of Falcon 1.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /falcon/050120spacex (1719 words)

	Selenian Boondocks: Some Thoughts on the SpaceX Complaint
		In its basic form the complaint goes something like "why is SpaceX wasting so much time and money on a lawsuit when they haven't even flown their first vehicle yet", usually followed up or accompanying a statement about how they should "stick to rocket development".
		In the case of SpaceX, the management is flat, and indeed the lead engineer is none other than Elon Musk, the CEO and president of the firm.
		But even a tactical loss will be a strategic win, by raising the company's legal profile, and more importantly, raising their identity in the consciousness of Congressional staffers (especially DOD contract mavens like McCain, who hates both Boeing and Lockmart) and Pentagon lawyers.
	selenianboondocks.blogspot.com /2005/11/some-thoughts-on-spacex-complaint.html (1036 words)

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