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Live coverage: Falcon 9 roars into orbit with Japanese satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the JCSAT 14 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at 1:00 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT).
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Falcon 9 flight timeline with the JCSAT 14 satellite
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral early Friday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the JCSAT 14 communications satellite into orbit 32 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall rocket is poised for launch from Complex 40 at 1:21 a.m. EDT (0521 GMT) Friday at the opening of a 120-minute…
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New views of Falcon 9 landing from on-board SpaceX’s drone ship
SpaceX has released new photos of last week’s thrilling rocket landing aboard a floating drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, showing the 15-story Falcon 9 first stage slowing to a hover just as it touched down on the platform. The first stage booster landed less than nine minutes after launching from Cape Canaveral on Friday…
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Photos of the Falcon 9’s Friday afternoon flight
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on Friday afternoon, sending a Dragon cargo freighter on the way to the International Space Station as the launcher’s first stage booster returned to Earth aboard a floating platform. The landing is a key advance for SpaceX’s rocket reusability initiative. The 213-foot-tall rocket blasted off from…
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Video: Press conference following Falcon launch and landing
Kirk Shireman, NASA’s manager of the International Space Station Program, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX vice president of flight reliability, hold the post-launch press conference from Kennedy Space Center on April 8.
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Video: SpaceX lands rocket on drone ship for first time
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster steered toward a first-ever landing on a drone ship floating 185 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean minutes after blasting off from Florida with a space station cargo ship. The 156-foot-tall booster, slowed by one of its Merlin rocket engines, descended to the football field-sized vessel about 8…
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SpaceX lands rocket on ocean-going drone ship
A split-screen view during SpaceX’s launch webcast showed the Falcon 9 first stage booster after touchdown on the drone ship, while the Dragon cargo capsule is deployed from the Falcon 9’s upper stage in orbit. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster descended under engine power to a floating landing platform in the Atlantic…
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket’s flight from liftoff to orbit
This video replay shows the Falcon 9 rocket’s flight from liftoff until deployment of the Dragon supply ship, including the dramatic touchdown on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The rocket took off at 4:43 p.m. EDT (2043 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Email the author. Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter:…
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SpaceX ready to return to the space station
A Falcon 9 rocket sits on its launch pad this week awaiting liftoff Friday at 2043 GMT (4:43 p.m. EDT). Credit: SpaceX Ground crews loaded time-critical experiments, including 20 mice to help scientists study muscle atrophy, into SpaceX’s commercial Dragon cargo capsule Thursday, a day before a launch planned from Cape Canaveral toward the International…
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SpaceX rocket wreckage back on shore after near-miss at landing
Debris from SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket booster returned to shore in Southern California late Monday after it tipped over on touchdown on a landing platform in the Pacific Ocean following liftoff with a ocean study satellite. SpaceX intended to recover the 14-story booster on the company’s landing barge — named “Just Read the Instructions” —…