Saturday, May 30th saw the first Falcon 9/Crew Dragon flight to ISS carrying astronauts. The mission left Florida in a picture perfect flight and placed the 2 DM-2 astronauts into a 200 km preliminary orbit. Over the next 19 hours
SpaceX suffered another RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly) of their most promising Starship prototype, SN4, just minutes after another successful static test firing of the Raptor engine at the Boca Chica, TX test facility. SpaceX has been testing SN4, the first
SpaceX is counting down the final hours to a scheduled Wednesday, May 27th 4:33 pm EDT Saturday, May 30th 3:22 pm EDT launch of Crew Dragon DM-2 flight carrying two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
The Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society will hold it’s Annual Meeting Saturday, May 2nd at 4:00 PM PDT.The meeting will be held virtually using Zoom: Topic: Annual MeetingTime: May 2, 2020 04:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meetinghttps://zoom.us/j/91472917131?pwd=MjZFdTFWdkE3UkFCV1hrMDBxZCtmUT09 Meeting ID: 914
It’s official! E.R.P.S. will be hosting the 2019 Space Access conference at the Fremont Marriott Hotel, April 18th – 21st, 2019. Space Access is the premier conference for space technology focused on getting reliable, reusable, affordable access to space for
The E.R.P.S. 2018 Annual Meeting was called to order at 15:51 hrs (3:51 pm) today. President’s Remarks Outgoing President Rick Kwan led a discussion on directions going forward, based on some of his recent emails. Discussed were plans for Space
E.R.P.S. members pose at the mural outside SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
The Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society now has an online presence at MeetUp.com, where meetings, work parties, etc can be announced and people in the SF Bay Area can sign up and join the online team, help develop engines and test support structures
by Darrell Etherington (@drizzled) Let’s face it: Elon Musk is probably a time traveller sent back to help us leave earth behind and achieve the next phase of human evolution. The inventor and entrepreneur issued a minor tweet storm today, in which
By Jeff Foust | Nov. 17, 2014 WASHINGTON — NASA has signed an agreement to lease Moffett Federal Airfield, run by the agency’s Ames Research Center, to a company owned by Internet