Bayourat Aerospace and Rocketry Blog  Bayourat Aerospace Blog PostsLatest Posts2012-05-24 - SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Completes Key Tests In Quest to Visit Space Station Provided By: SpaceX Most Difficult Challenges Still Ahead May 24, 2012 Today, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft completed key on-orbit tests as part of a historic attempt to be the first commercial company in history to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station. In the days since SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully launched from Cape Canaveral,... [Read More] 2012-05-22 - SpaceX Dragon Capsule Is Now In Orbit! The third launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket occured today, May 22nd 2012 at 07:44 UTC from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The rocket carried the SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft into orbit on it's second mission, COTS 2+. This launch occurred after a scrubbed attempt on May 19th due to a high pressure reading from engine 5, after a visual inspection a faulty check valve was... [Read More] 2012-05-13 - A team from Madison West High School blew away its rivals Saturday, winning first place — and a free trip to London — in the Team America Rocketry Challenge. The four-member team beat 99 others in the finals at the national competition held in The Plains, Va. The winning team gets an expenses-paid trip to London courtesy of Raytheon Company to compete in the July 15 Farnborough... [Read More] 2012-05-07 - Musk Has His Eye On Mars It was bad SA television that gave Elon Musk part of his mysterious edge. As a 10-year-old he read whole volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica after emptying the family bookshelves — anything to avoid another episode of ChiPs or Die Man van Intersek. Avoiding sports and bullies just as keenly, he sat alone in his boy cave at home in Pretoria, reading Jules Verne and playing Space Invaders.... [Read More] 2012-04-22 - Attention All Rocket Scientist! $3 Million Nano-Sat Challenge Announcement. Space Florida established the Space Florida Small Satellite Research Center (SFSSRC) as a non-profit entity to support sponsored research efforts in small satellite utilization and to conduct the Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge (Challenge) as part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Centennial Challenge Program. The Challenge will be conducted during 2013 and the... [Read More]
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