Tag: Astrophysics
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Video: NASA and SpaceX brief media on space station cargo flight
Officials from NASA and SpaceX briefed the media on Monday’s scheduled launch of a commercial Dragon spacecraft on an automated resupply mission to the International Space Station. It will be the 12th SpaceX cargo flight to the research outpost.
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Photos: SpaceX rolls out rocket for next station resupply flight
SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 rocket rolled out of its hangar and up the ramp to Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A Sunday in preparation for liftoff on a two-day trek ferrying more than 6,400 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. Workers at the launch pad spent Sunday afternoon installing last-minute cargo…
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Live coverage: Station astronauts capture SpaceX supply ship
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s 12th operational Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Watch on a mobile device.
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Video: Time-lapse of Falcon 9 rocket raised for launch at pad 39A
SpaceX’s ground team hydraulically hoisted a 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket vertical at pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center before dawn Monday ahead of a planned liftoff with a space station-bound robotic resupply craft. Liftoff is set for 12:31 p.m. EDT (1631 GMT) Monday to begin a two-day pursuit of the space station with…
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Watch a liftoff-to-landing replay of Monday’s SpaceX launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, then the launcher’s first stage returned to landing at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station after sending a Dragon supply ship toward a rendezvous with the International Space Station. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket delivered a SpaceX cargo capsule on course to haul…
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SpaceX rocket readied for space station resupply run
File photo of a Dragon spacecraft on top of a Falcon 9 rocket before a previous mission. Credit: SpaceX Ground teams at the Kennedy Space Center were packing last-minute cargo into a commercial Dragon supply ship Sunday, a day before the automated freighter is set for liftoff on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…
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4K and HD video replays of SpaceX rocket undergoing static fire test at pad 39A
In one of its final preflight tests, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignited at pad 39A in Florida for several seconds Thursday, ramping up to full throttle in an end-to-end checkout of the booster before liftoff next week on a space station resupply flight. The cargo mission is set for launch Monday at 12:31 p.m.…
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SpaceX performs static fire, preps for Monday launch from Florida
A plume of exhaust and steam erupts from pad 39A as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fires its nine Merlin main engines during Thursday’s static fire test. Credit: Spaceflight Now Set to resume a brisk pace of launch activity after a nearly six-week respite, SpaceX test-fired its next Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
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Station-bound instrument to open new chapter in the story of cosmic rays
This mosaic image of Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion, was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Recent research shows that galactic cosmic rays flowing into our solar system originate in clusters like these. Credit: NASA/ESA/Arizona State University Physicists are gearing up to send a re-engineered science instrument originally designed…
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NASA might privatize one of its great observatories
Artist’s concept of the Spitzer Space Telescope seen against the infrared sky. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC) Management of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope could be turned over to an academic institution or private operator in 2019 once the space agency’s funding for the observatory runs out, a senior NASA manager said this week. Launched in August…