Tag: Arabsat
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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy ready for first commercial launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated after SpaceX scrubbed Wednesday’s launch attempt. The Falcon Heavy rocket stands vertical at pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. Credit: SpaceX A little more than a year after the Falcon Heavy rocket’s first test flight, SpaceX teams on Florida’s Space Coast are readying the world’s most powerful…
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Photos: Falcon Heavy raised vertical at pad 39A
SpaceX’s second Falcon Heavy, outfitted to produce more thrust than the heavy-lifter’s debut flight last year, was raised vertical at launch pad 39A in Florida on Wednesday ahead of a launch attempt with the Arabsat 6A communications satellite. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket rolled out of SpaceX’s hangar at pad 39A, the site at NASA’s Kennedy…
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Watch the Falcon Heavy fire up its engines
The second Falcon Heavy fires its first stage engines as part of a routine pre-flight test for the upcoming launch of the Arabsat 6A communications satellite. Video: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now.
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Live coverage: Falcon Heavy launch slips until Wednesday at earliest
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Arabsat 6A communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Spaceflight Now Members can watch a live view of the launch pad. Become a member and support our coverage. Follow…
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Air Force sees upcoming Falcon Heavy launches as key to certifying reused rockets
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated March 15 with target launch date. SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket climbs into the sky from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is gearing up for the first commercial launch of its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket as soon as early April with a communications satellite…
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Rideshare mission for U.S. military confirmed as second Falcon Heavy launch
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off Feb. 6 from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Spaceflight Now More than two dozen satellites from the U.S. military, NASA and research institutions will ride into orbit on SpaceX’s second Falcon Heavy rocket launch, a mission currently scheduled for…
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Rewatch the Ariane 5’s spectacular sunset liftoff
Watch multi-angle video replays of Tuesday’s blastoff of an Ariane 5 rocket from the jungles of South America carrying two communications satellite for Arabsat and the Indian Space Research Organization. The liftoff occurred at 2134 GMT (4:34 p.m. EST; 6:34 p.m. local time), just after sunset at the French Guiana space center, on the Ariane…
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Arab and Indian satellites fly aboard Ariane 5
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – P. Baudon A European Ariane 5 rocket, burning a cryogenic mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, thundered into the sky over French Guiana at dusk Tuesday with two communications relay satellites to serve the Arab world and India. Like clockwork, the rocket lit its liquid-fueled Vulcain…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 soars into space from Kourou
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Arabsat 6B and GSAT 15 communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Launch managers sign off on final Ariane 5 flight of 2015
A team member working on the next Ariane 5 flight signs the rocket’s payload fairing ahead of Tuesday’s liftoff. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin A launch readiness review Friday cleared an Ariane 5 rocket for liftoff Tuesday with two communications satellites for Arabsat and India, the first three missions from…