Tag: commercial-space
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Live coverage: First Falcon Heavy blasts off
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Spaceflight Now members can watch a live video feed of pad 39A as the Falcon Heavy is prepared for launch. Become a member…
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Photos: Falcon Heavy in position for first test launch
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket stood atop historic launch pad 39A on Monday, one day before 27 kerosene-fueled rocket engines will dispatch the towering rocket into space with nearly 5 million pounds of thrust. Liftoff Tuesday is planned during a two-and-a-half hour launch window opening at 1:30 p.m. EST (1830 GMT). The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon Heavy…
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Photos: Falcon 9 soars into space with GovSat 1
SpaceX’s second Falcon 9 flight of the year lifted off Jan. 31 from Cape Canaveral with GovSat 1, a U.S.-built satellite funded by SES and the government of Luxembourg to provide secure communications for military and civil defense authorities. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 4:25…
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SpaceX receives commercial launch license for first Falcon Heavy flight
Credit: SpaceX The Federal Aviation Administration has approved a launch license for SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket set for blastoff Tuesday, giving the U.S. government’s regulatory green light for the heavy-lifter to dispatch Elon Musk’s used electric sports car on a one-way trip into deep space. Dated Feb. 2, the FAA launch license clears a final…
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Video: Replay of the launch of GovSat 1 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket
Video credit: SpaceX The GovSat 1 communications satellite for SES and the government of Luxembourg lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 4:25 p.m. EST (2125 GMT) Wednesday. This video shows the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket carrying GovSat 1 climbing to the east from Cape Canaveral, then shedding its first stage…
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Soyuz rocket fires into space with 11 satellites
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with confirmation of launch success. A Soyuz rocket crowned by a Fregat upper stage carrying 11 Russian, German and U.S. satellites into orbit lifted off Thursday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East, the first flight from the country’s newest spaceport since a failure in November. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off…
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SpaceX rocket flies on 60th anniversary of first U.S. satellite launch
A Falcon 9 rocket takes off Wednesday with the GovSat 1 satellite. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher boosted a 4.7-ton military-grade communications satellite for SES and the Luxembourg government toward a perch 22,300 miles over the equator following a spectacular late afternoon liftoff Tuesday from Florida’s Space Coast, clearing the last mission off…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with GovSat 1
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the GovSat 1 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 4:25 p.m.…
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SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 launch to replace second stage sensor
The Falcon 9 rocket set to deliver the GovSat 1 communications satellite to orbit stands vertical at launch pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s launch director halted a countdown Tuesday to replace a sensor on the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket set to blast off with the…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with GovSat 1
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the GovSat 1 communications satellite for SES and the government of Luxembourg. 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.