Tag: commercial-space
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Another recovered Falcon 9 booster arrives back in port
WATCH: SpaceX booster rocket arrives at Port Canaveral after launching Early Monday morning. This was a live recording as it passed by Jetty Park. Gotta love all this space stuff! pic.twitter.com/D67U7iH0y0 — Port Canaveral (@PortCanaveral) September 12, 2018 SpaceX brought another Falcon 9 booster into Port Canaveral on Wednesday, a little more than two days…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket blasts off with Telstar 18 VANTAGE comsat
SpaceX launched its 16th mission of the year early Monday, lighting up a nighttime sky with a Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a Canadian-owned commercial communications satellite to orbit. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) after a weather delay to…
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Viasat selects Atlas 5 rocket for broadband satellite launch
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch in 2012, using five strap-on solid rocket boosters. Credit: United Launch Alliance A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will send one of Viasat’s next-generation broadband satellites toward geostationary orbit from Cape Canaveral some time between 2020 and 2022, the companies announced Monday. The commercial satellite is…
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SpaceX, Telesat achieve repeat success with midnight-hour launch
A Falcon 9 rocket streaks into space after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday. Credit: SpaceX For the second time in seven weeks, SpaceX, Telesat and SSL teamed up for a commercial satellite launch from Cape Canaveral early Monday, this time successfully deploying into orbit a high-power…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with Telstar 18 VANTAGE
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Monday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Telstar 18 VANTAGE communications satellite into orbit around 32 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is poised for launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 11:28…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 lifts off after weather delay
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the Telstar 18 VANTAGE/APSTAR 5C communications satellite for the Canadian company Telesat. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior to launch, and will be available on this page.
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SpaceX launch delayed to Sunday night
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT) with SpaceX’s confirmation of the one-day delay. File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on its launch pad. Credit: SpaceX A commercial communications satellite set for launch from Florida’s Space Coast on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to beam broadband and television signals across the Asia-Pacific…
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Hotfire test keeps SpaceX on schedule for weekend launch
A plume of exhaust erupted from the Falcon 9’s launch pad as the rocket test-fired its engines at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) Wednesday. Credit: William Harwood/CBS News A brief test-firing of a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday morning kept SpaceX on track for a launch Saturday night from Cape Canaveral with a communications satellite to…
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Space Adventures is back in vogue – and aiming to go beyond orbital tourism
Space Adventures facilitated two trips to the International Space Station for Seattle billionaire Charles Simonyi, in 2007 and 2009. (NASA Photo via Space Adventures) More than 17 years after Space Adventures put its first millionaire client in orbit, and nearly nine years after getting its last one launched, the company is raising its profile in…
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Virgin Orbit nears first test flights with air-launched rocket
Virgin Orbit’s carrier aircraft, named “Cosmic Girl,” flies with a newly-installed rocket pylon under its left wing. Credit: Virgin Orbit LONG BEACH, California — The attachment of a mounting bracket for Virgin Orbit’s smallsat launcher under the wing of a modified passenger jetliner portends the start of a series of captive carry tests with a…