Tag: commercial-space
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon ready for first test flight
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 7 p.m. EST (0000 GMT) with additional photos, after the Falcon 9 rocket was raised vertical at pad 39A. The Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft roll to pad 39A on Thursday morning. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky SpaceX’s first Crew Dragon spacecraft, fixed to the forward end of a Falcon 9 rocket,…
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First six OneWeb satellites launched from French Guiana
A Soyuz ST-B rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Guiana Space Center with the first six OneWeb broadband satellites. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin Carrying the ambition of an entrepreneur with a passion for connecting the world, a half-dozen satellites lifted off Wednesday aboard a Soyuz rocket from the…
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Live coverage: First OneWeb broadband satellites launch aboard Soyuz rocket
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana with the first six OneWeb broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video stream begins at 2117 GMT (4:17 p.m. EST) and will be available here. If you appreciate what we do, please consider becoming…
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OneWeb poised to begin deployment of broadband ‘mega-constellation’
Six of the first 10 satellites built for OneWeb by Airbus Defense in Space in Toulouse, France, are scheduled for launch Wednesday from French Guiana. Credit: OneWeb Six satellites built in France for OneWeb are set for blastoff Wednesday from French Guiana, the first of at least 21 launches using Russian-made Soyuz rockets to haul…
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Computer reset cancels orbit-raising burn on Israel’s moon lander
Artist’s illustration of the Beresheet lander’s elliptical transfer orbit around Earth. Credit: SpaceIL A computer reset on the Israeli Beresheet lunar lander forced has the postponement of the mission’s first engine firing to begin maneuvering closer to the moon, officials said Tuesday. Mission managers said the robotic lander — seeking to become the first privately-funded…
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Forecasters expect good weather for Crew Dragon test launch Saturday
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rolls out of the hangar at pad 39A in this file photo. Credit: SpaceX The first official launch weather outlook issued Tuesday by U.S. Air Force meteorologists predicts an 80 percent chance of favorable conditions for the predawn liftoff Saturday of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on a test flight to…
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Take an aerial 4K video tour of the Crew Dragon atop Falcon 9
Take an aerial tour of the Crew Dragon atop the Falcon 9 rocket on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. This footage was shot in 4k video resolution by a drone camera during pre-launch testing. The Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 will return to the launch pad this week for its first test…
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Scorched SpaceX rocket returns to port in Florida, ready to launch a fourth time
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket arrived at Port Canaveral on Sunday after a two-and-a-half-day journey from the rocket’s landing zone in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Singed and blackened from three fiery trips to the edge of space and back, a Falcon 9 rocket returned to Cape Canaveral on…
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Photos: Falcon 9 flight marks Cape Canaveral’s first launch of 2019
The first launch from Cape Canaveral this year placed into orbit an Indonesian communications satellite, a privately-funded Israeli moon lander, and an experimental space surveillance microsatellite for the U.S. Air Force. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket fired into a starry sky over Florida’s Space Coast at 8:45 p.m. EST on Feb. 21 (0145 GMT Feb. 22)…
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NASA, SpaceX clear Crew Dragon for critical March 2 test flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket assigned to the Demo-1 mission inside SpaceX’s hangar at pad 39A on Dec. 18. 2018. Credit: SpaceX NASA managers held a flight readiness review Friday and cleared SpaceX to press ahead with work to ready a Falcon 9 rocket and…