Targeting Falcon 9 Block 5 launch of Bangabandhu Satellite-1 on May 10 from Pad 39A in Florida. — SpaceX (@SpaceX) 7 mai 2018. Like our articles? Please follow us or consider a contribution: ...

Update May 7, 4:20 p.m. EDT: SpaceX is now targeting Thursday, May 10, for the Bangabandhu-1 mission. Update 7:40 p.m. EDT: SpaceX conducted a static fire test of the first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket ...

The block 5 is the last major iteration of the Falcon 9, and Musk said he expects some 300 flights, using 50 to 60 boosters, between now and when the rocket is retired in favor of SpaceX's ...

Block 5 is the last version of Falcon 9. It might not seem like it, but the Falcon 9 family has been around for a while – June will mark eight years since the vehicle first flew in 2010.

Update 6:10 p.m. EDT: SpaceX has postponed the first flight of the Falcon 9 Block 5 after the rocket triggered an abort with 58 seconds left on the countdown clock, just after the vehicle entered ...

SpaceX's first "Block 5" Falcon 9 rocket launches Bangabandhu Satellite-1 for the government of Bangladesh on May 11, 2018. SpaceX wants to land and, within 24 hours, relaunch a Block 5 first ...

The Block 5 features a number of upgrades that should increase the rocket's reliability and reusability, SpaceX officials have said. The first stage of the Block 4 Falcon 9 is limited to two ...

The Block 5 offers a number of improvements over its predecessor.

Indeed, SpaceX intends to fly each Block 5 first stage it builds a minimum of 10 times, which would be hugely significant, as SpaceX has thus far only ever reused each of its Falcon 9 rockets a ...

The Full Thrust variant of the Falcon 9 also has had a few “block” improvements since it was first introduced in late 2015. It has 5 known blocks, and so far, 4 have flown.

The block 5 is the last major iteration of the Falcon 9, and Musk said he expects some 300 flights, using 50 to 60 boosters, between now and when the rocket is retired in favor of SpaceX's ...