Comments on: Musk on Falcon 9, COTS-D, and protests

By: Personal Spaceflight » SpaceX raising another round of funding

Personal Spaceflight » SpaceX raising another round of funding — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:05:18 +0000

[…] in his speech yesterday at the National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, at least compared to his address last week at a satellite conference in Washington. However, there is one new development that he did not mention in his speech. As reported by […]

By: Jeff Foust

Jeff Foust — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:59:53 +0000

R. Simko: the contract award to SpaceX has already been made, and with no PlanetSpace protest, it’s no longer (presumably) on hold. Any action on the protest would only affect Orbital’s contract.

By: Jr Ganymede » Problems with the Falcon 9

Jr Ganymede » Problems with the Falcon 9 — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:08:06 +0000

[…] pard Elon says his big ol’ rocket hoss the Falcon 9 has problems with a cussed ornery fairing. A fairing? What in tarnation is a fairing? A easterner dude word for saddle? Me and Widowmaker […]

By: R.Simko

R.Simko — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:56:11 +0000

Since Planetspace has dropped its CRS protest against SpaceX, does that mean that NASA can award Spacex’s portion of the contract, even if Orbital’s portion gets extended into further litigation?

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:56:03 +0000

Cool. I’m looking forward to seeing SpaceX rockets delivering people to Bigelow’s inflatable space stations. Haven’t heard much from Bigelow in a while…? I Can’t wait for the first one to be sent up!

By: Gordan

Gordan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:54:26 +0000

Thanks, Jeff. That clears it up a bit – the original wording suggested major problems with whether the current fairing would work or not.

By: Jeff Foust

Jeff Foust — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:38:14 +0000

Gordan: Musk didn’t suggest that there were problems with the fairing, only that it anything cause their launch date to slip, that would be it. SpaceX originally planned to have another company do the fairing but brought it in-house because of cost and schedule issues.

By: Musk: SpaceX Has 19 Orders, Not Affected by COTS Protest at Parabolic Arc: Space Tourism…and Much More

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:29:08 +0000

[…] ever-chatty Elon Musk was the luncheon speaker at the Satellite 2009 conference in Washington on Tuesday. Jeff Foust has an extensive review of the SpaceX CEO’s speech over […]

By: Gordan

Gordan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:51:52 +0000

Great notes (also on Twitter). Regarding the Falcon 9 fairing problem, how exactly did he word it – a major obstacle as in it’s not working as planned or something different?

In other words, do you know if they are looking at a major redesign or a production delay?