SpaceX Reveals First Relaunch Rocket Cost To Happen In September

Of course it is equally plausible that the meeting between the Pentagon and Musk was to discuss government contracts for SpaceX. And in March of this year, the Pentagon also created an advisory board in order to “tap innovation” from the private sector.

The government remains mum about the meeting, apart from Department of Defense spokesperson Peter Cook acknowledging that Carter “has been reaching out to a number of members of the technology community to get their ideas, their feedback, find out what’s going on in the world of innovation”.

Traditionally a rocket would launch into space, drop off its payload, and then discarded.

Musk, for his part, is jumping into the military industrial complex with both feet.

Elon Musk attends the SpaceX Commerical Launch Facility on September 22, 2014.

A report published in Inverse informed, “SpaceX CEO Elon Musk visited the Pentagon today for a planned meeting with Ash Carter, U.S. Secretary of Defense, during what the Department of Defense describes as Carter’s attempt to “build bridges” in technology and learn more about the world of innovation”.

The 2018 trip is going to use SpaceX’s “Dragon” spacecraft, which would be propelled into space by Falcon Heavy, a beastly rocket containing 27 first-stage engines.

Elon Musk, founder of rocket company SpaceX says his company will “re-flight” one of its recovered rockets later this autumn. Musk also stated that the reusable rocket stage would be capable of launching about 80 percent of the one use rocket’s cargo. It was an ambitious turnaround time for the company, especially since SpaceX is just now figuring out how to put its reusable rocket strategy into practice. Last April, the company was awarded an $82.7 million contract to launch the US Air Force’s next generation Global Positioning System satellites into orbit in 2018.

The only other certified launch provider is the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

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This could make deep space travel cheaper, helping pave the way for a viable manned mission to Mars.

The rocket carried a Thaicom 8 satellite (pictured on top of the Falcon 9 rocket left) 22,000 miles from the Earth.