Tag: CubeSats
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Launch timeline for Rocket Lab’s “Make it Rain” mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated June 28 to reflect new target launch date. Rocket Lab’s light-class Electron launcher is set to take off on its seventh flight from New Zealand, aiming for a 280-mile-high (450-kilometer) orbit with seven small satellites for commercial customers, the U.S. military and university students. The two-stage, 55-foot-tall (17-meter) rocket is scheduled for liftoff…
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Photos: Falcon Heavy lights up Florida’s Space Coast
The world’s most powerful operational rocket flashed to life at 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT) Tuesday and climbed into a moonlit summer sky from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the same site where the Apollo 11 astronauts left Earth for their historic moon landing nearly 50 years ago. The Falcon Heavy…
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Live coverage: Rocket Lab launches rideshare mission
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying seven small Earth observation, data relay and tech demo satellites into orbit. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Rocket Lab’s live video webcast begins approximately 15 minutes prior to launch,…
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Watch a video replay of the Falcon Heavy’s first night launch
This video replay shows the liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with 5.1 million pounds of thrust, followed by the nearby landing of the launcher’s twin side boosters nine minutes later. The rocket’s center core missed a landing attempt on SpaceX’s offshore drone ship. The video comes from…
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Falcon Heavy launches on military-led rideshare mission, boat catches fairing
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket took off at 2:30 a.m. EDT (0630 GMT) from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s third Falcon Heavy rocket took off from the Kennedy Space Center in a predawn launch Tuesday, delivering two dozen research and weather observation spacecraft into orbit on a marathon three-and-a-half…
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Launch timeline for Falcon Heavy’s first launch for the U.S. Air Force
SpaceX’s third Falcon Heavy rocket is set for liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the heavy-lift launcher will head on an easterly course over the Atlantic Ocean atop more than 5 million pounds of thrust. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is poised for launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in…
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Photos: Falcon Heavy reaches pad 39A for its first night launch
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket rolled out of its hangar and up the ramp to pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, then was raised vertical at the seaside launch complex early Monday in preparation for a late-night liftoff with two dozen weather observation and technology demonstration satellites. The rocket stands 229 feet (70…
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Live coverage: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy lifts off from Kennedy Space Center
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with two dozen spacecraft on the U.S. Air Force’s Space Test Program-2 mission. Text updates will appear automatically below. Spaceflight Now Members can watch a live view of the launch pad.…
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Falcon Heavy to flex muscles on demanding demo launch for U.S. Air Force
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is lifted inside the hangar at launch pad 39A during final assembly. Credit: SpaceX On its third flight Monday night, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket will fly to three different orbits with two dozen spacecraft on a mission set to last more than six hours, prompting SpaceX founder Elon Musk to declare…
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Firefly offering free launch for research and educational payloads
Firefly Aerospace conducted a 300-second qualification firing of the Alpha rocket’s complete second stage in April at the company’s test site in Central Texas. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace is asking academic institutions, startup companies and the public to submit ideas for payloads to launch, free of charge, on the inaugural orbital flight of the…