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SPACE X | an upgraded Falcon nine First static firing… those Merlin’s…!

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On 21st of September 2015 “SpaceX” did a Test firing on their newly improve Falcon nine Merlin engines, the testing was on the Densified Propellant… the new testing of the modified engines of the nine Merlin’s increase in sea level thrust of 170,000 from its previous 147,000 pounds… with the newly acquired thrust is hopefully to increase in Payload weight in given packaging on the Dragon nine Cargo or Manned to the international space station as it due to replace the Russian Federal Space Agency, RKA’s tendership of Crew Transport on the Soyuz, manned Progress Command Module… The test firing, a planned fifteen seconds, testing the first stage at Space X’s McGregor Test Launch facilities at Texas….

 

SPACE X | dragon V2 the unveiling…?

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Yesterday on the 30th May 2014, SpaceX‘s Elon Musk unveil the version two of the Dragon command module with the application repetitive testing of the Grasshopper retro landing system that does not required the need for  parachuting landing at sea, but rather retro landing back to earth basefully  on land in which the next generation of reusable command and launch modules or vehicles should be in lowering operational cost to get back into space also to lower the amount of waste and hazards in space to travel  too..

From looking at the whole vehicles, the service module is composite of solar arrays wrapped around the fuselage providing the power to the command module, in which during the process in de-orbiting back to earth the service module will depose of… in one innovate step the docking system of the Dragon V2, as a cone hatch, in which that will provide a more aerodynamic tool and assist in the process in re-entering also retro land as a real spacecraft should do like a Helicopter..  In the same manner like DC-X in the past..  also it can carry the same crew complement of the Space Shuttle program..