Tag: commercial-space
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket launches with more Starlink satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission will launch SpaceX’s eighth batch of Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission audio”] [tabbyending]
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Timeline for Falcon 9 launch with Starlink satellites
Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent to orbit with 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is scheduled to lift off Wednesday at 9:25 p.m. EDT (0125 GMT Thursday) from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Falcon 9 will head northeast from Cape Canaveral…
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SpaceX’s reusable Falcon booster returns to port after crew launch
Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now Almost exactly three days after taking off a few miles to the north at the Kennedy Space Center on SpaceX’s historic first crew launch, a 15-story-tall Falcon rocket booster returned to Florida’s Space Coast Tuesday aboard a football field-sized drone ship. Throngs of local residents, tourists and space enthusiasts…
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SpaceX targets Wednesday night for next Starlink launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 40 last month for the company’s next Starlink launch. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Days after launching astronauts for the first time, SpaceX is set to resume a speedy cadence of satellite launches Wednesday night with liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s next batch of…
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NASA’s Dragon riders capture the flag, nine years after it was left on the space station
NASA astronaut Doug Hurley shows off the U.S. flag that was left aboard the International Space Station in 2011 by the last space shuttle crew. Hurley and Behnken, at left, will take the flag back to Earth with them aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. The space station’s current commander, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, is…
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Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon blast off from pad 39A
SpaceX’s first human-rated Crew Dragon spacecraft took off Saturday from historic launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launching NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on the first piloted orbital space mission from a U.S. spaceport in nearly a decade. Taking advantage of a break in the weather, the 215-foot-tall (65-meter)…
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‘Dragon arriving’: For first time, astronauts reach the space station in SpaceX capsule
A camera mounted on the International Space Station shows SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule hooked up to a port on the station’s Harmony module. (NASA via YouTube) For the first time in nearly nine years, astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station in a spaceship that was made in the USA. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon…
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Making history, astronauts ride commercial capsule to space station
Russian flight engineer Ivan Vagner tweeted this picture of the newly-enlarged Expedition 63 crew Sunday on the International Space Station. Behnken and Hurley are seeing black shirts. Credit: Ivan Vagner/Roscosmos A Crew Dragon spaceship built and owned by SpaceX glided to an automated docking with the International Space Station Sunday, delivering NASA astronauts Doug Hurley…
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Watch the astronauts give a tour of their new Crew Dragon spacecraft
Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken give a video tour of their new SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft as they close in on a docking with the International Space Station on May 31, 2020. Video: SpaceX.
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Photos: Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon await next launch attempt
These photos show the 215-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, ready for launch on a test flight to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken when weather cooperates. The first launch attempt for the Crew Dragon’s Demo-2 mission Wednesday,…