Falcon 9 (Simple English Wikipedia)

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Klotz, Irene (6 September 2013). "Musk Says SpaceX Being "Extremely Paranoid" as It Readies for Falcon 9's California Debut". Space News. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

arstechnica.com (Global: 473^rd place; Simple English: 426^th place)

Berger, Eric (22 April 2020). "The Falcon 9 just became America's workhorse rocket". Arstechnica. Archived from the original on 23 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
"SpaceX goes there—seeks government funds for deep space" Archived 15 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine Ars Technica 13 July 2017

aviationweek.com (Global: 1,271^st place; Simple English: 3,432^nd place)

Svitak, Amy (24 November 2013). "Musk: Falcon 9 Will Capture Market Share". Aviation Week. Retrieved 28 November 2013. SpaceX is currently producing one vehicle per month, but that number is expected to increase to '18 per year in the next couple of quarters'. By the end of 2014, she says SpaceX will produce 24 launch vehicles per year.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
Svitak, Amy (10 March 2014). "SpaceX Says Falcon 9 To Compete For EELV This Year". Aviation Week. Archived from the original on 10 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014. Within a year, we need to get it from where it is right now, which is about a rocket core every four weeks, to a rocket core every two weeks... By the end of 2015, says SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, the company plans to ratchet up production to 40 cores per year.
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bbc.co.uk (Global: 11^th place; Simple English: 9^th place)

Amos, Jonathan (8 October 2012). "SpaceX lifts off with ISS cargo". BBC News. Archived from the original on 20 November 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
Amos, Jonathan (3 December 2013). "SpaceX launches SES commercial TV satellite for Asia". BBC. Archived from the original on 2 January 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2013. The commercial market for launching telecoms spacecraft is tightly contested, but has become dominated by just a few companies – notably, Europe's Arianespace, which flies the Ariane 5, and International Launch Services (ILS), which markets Russia's Proton vehicle. SpaceX is promising to substantially undercut the existing players on price, and SES, the world's second-largest telecoms satellite operator, believes the incumbents had better take note of the California company's capability.

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Mangels, John (25 May 2013). "NASA's Plum Brook Station tests rocket fairing for SpaceX". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Archived from the original on 4 June 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2013.

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Wattles, Jackie. "SpaceX launches 143 satellites on one rocket in record-setting mission". CNN. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.

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Barbara Opall-Rome (12 October 2015). "IAI Develops Small, Electric-Powered COMSAT". DefenseNews. Retrieved 12 October 2015. At 5.3 tons, Amos-6 is the largest communications satellite ever built by IAI. Scheduled for launch in early 2016 from Cape Canaveral aboard a Space-X Falcon 9 launcher, Amos-6 will replace Amos-2, which is nearing the end of its 16-year life.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

flightglobal.com (Global: 222^nd place; Simple English: 545^th place)

Coppinger, Rob (27 February 2008). "SpaceX Falcon 9 maiden flight delayed by six months to late Q1 2009". Flight Global. Archived from the original on 2 March 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2008.

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Thomas, Rachael L. "SpaceX's rockets and spacecraft have really cool names. But what do they mean?". Florida Today. Archived from the original on 25 June 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2019.

forbes.com (Global: 71^st place; Simple English: 58^th place)

Light, Larry. "SpaceX, The Pursuit Of Quality And The Law Of The Diagonal". Forbes. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020. "SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches the world's most advanced rockets and spacecraft".

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"Schedule". Archived from the original on 25 February 2015.

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"Statement of William H. Gerstenmaier Associate Administrator for Space Operations before the Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). U.S. House of Representatives. 26 May 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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"Elon MUSK Breaks Doen The Cost Of Rwusabke Rockets". Archived from the original on 23 August 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.

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Cooper, Ben (25 April 2018). "Rocket Launch Viewing Guide for Cape Canaveral". launchphotography.com. Archived from the original on 9 February 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2018.

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"SpaceX targets 2021 commercial Starship launch". 28 June 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2019.

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Cawley, James (10 November 2020). "NASA and SpaceX Complete Certification of First Human-Rated Commercial Space System". NASA. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
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"Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)". NASA. 24 October 2016. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
"Falcon 9 Launch Vehicle NAFCOM Cost Estimates" (PDF). nasa.gov. August 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 28 February 2012. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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Graham, William (21 December 2015). "SpaceX returns to flight with OG2, nails historic core return". NASASpaceFlight. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2015. The launch also marked the first flight of the Falcon 9 Full Thrust, internally known only as the "Upgraded Falcon 9"
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David, Leonard. "SpaceX tackles reusable heavy launch vehicle". MSNBC. NBC News. Archived from the original on 21 May 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2020.

newscientist.com (Global: 1,041^st place; Simple English: 477^th place)

"NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts into new era of private spaceflight". 30 May 2020. Archived from the original on 12 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.

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popularmechanics.com (Global: 2,521^st place; Simple English: 2,334^th place)

Seemangal, Robin (4 May 2018). "SpaceX Test-Fires New Falcon 9 Block 5 Rocket Ahead of Maiden Flight (Updated)". Popular Mechanics. Archived from the original on 7 April 2019. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
Simberg, Rand (8 February 2012). "Elon Musk on SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Plans". Popular Mechanics. Archived from the original on 24 June 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2017.

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Kucinski, William. "All four NSSL launch vehicle developers say they'll be ready in 2021". Sae Mobilus. Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.

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Malik, Tariq (19 January 2017). "These SpaceX Rocket Landing Photos Are Simply Jaw-Dropping". Space.com. Archived from the original on 20 June 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
Wall, Mike (9 November 2018). "SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Certified to Launch NASA's Most Precious Science Missions". Space.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
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spaceflightnow.com (Global: 2,331^st place; Simple English: 2,265^th place)

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"SpaceX targets 2021 commercial Starship launch". 28 June 2019. Archived from the original on 28 August 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
de Selding, Peter B. (15 October 2012). "Orbcomm Craft Launched by Falcon 9 Falls out of Orbit". Space News. Archived from the original on 1 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2012. Orbcomm requested that SpaceX carry one of their small satellites (weighing a few hundred pounds, versus Dragon at over 12,000 pounds)... The higher the orbit, the more test data [Orbcomm] can gather, so they requested that we attempt to restart and raise altitude. NASA agreed to allow that, but only on condition that there be substantial propellant reserves, since the orbit would be close to the International Space Station. It is important to appreciate that Orbcomm understood from the beginning that the orbit-raising maneuver was tentative. They accepted that there was a high risk of their satellite remaining at the Dragon insertion orbit...
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tesmanian.com (Global: low place; Simple English: low place)

Arevalo, Evelyn. "NASA modified SpaceX contract to allow the reuse of previously-flown Falcon 9 rockets". Tesmanian. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2020. "The company has designed and manufactured some of the world's most advanced rockets".

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thespacereview.com (Global: 9,241^st place; Simple English: low place)

Money, Stewart (12 March 2012). "Competition and the future of the EELV program (part 2)". The Space Review. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014. "The government is the necessary anchor tenant for commercial cargo, but it's not sufficient to build a new economic ecosystem", says Scott Hubbard, an aeronautics researcher at Stanford University in California and former director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

twitter.com (Global: 43^rd place; Simple English: 63^rd place)

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