Tag: Drone Ship
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SiriusXM satellite rides SpaceX rocket into orbit
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with the SXM 7 satellite. Credit: SpaceX A hefty new satellite to beam SiriusXM radio programming across North America rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Sunday from Cape Canaveral on course to replace an aging broadcast station launched…
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SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 launch attempt with SiriusXM satellite
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket counts down to a launch attempt Friday at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX called off the planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket Friday at Cape Canaveral, halting the countdown less than a minute before liftoff to allow time to perform additional ground system checkouts before the…
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Live coverage: SpaceX’s launches SiriusXM satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida with the SXM 7 radio broadcasting satellite for SiriusXM. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission audio”] [tabbyending] SpaceX’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior to…
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SpaceX plans to cap busy week with launch of satellite for SiriusXM
The SXM 7 radio broadcasting satellite. Credit: Maxar A massive radio broadcasting satellite for SiriusXM is set for liftoff Friday on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, punctuating a busy week for SpaceX that included the debut of a new-generation cargo ship for the International Space Station and a spectacular atmospheric test flight of a…
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SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites on 100th Falcon 9 flight
A Falcon 9 rocket climbs away from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Tuesday night. Credit: SpaceX The 100th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket delivered 60 satellites to orbit for SpaceX’s Starlink network Tuesday night, adding another building block to a planned fleet of thousands of solar-powered space-based relay stations to…
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SpaceX going for new rocket reuse record on 100th Falcon 9 launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Launch has been rescheduled for 9:13 p.m. EST on Nov. 24 (0213 GMT on Nov. 25). A Falcon 9 rocket fires its engines at Cape Canaveral on Sunday in preparation for launch with 60 more Starlink satellites. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now Sixty more Starlink internet satellites are ready to rocket into orbit…
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Crew-rated SpaceX booster returns to Cape Canaveral with a lean
The Falcon 9 booster from the Crew-1 launch returned to Port Canaveral on Thursday aboard SpaceX’s drone ship “Just Read the Instructions.” Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now The Falcon 9 booster that launched four astronauts toward orbit last weekend arrived back on Florida’s Space Coast Thursday aboard a SpaceX drone ship, sailing into Port…
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Veteran Japanese astronaut to become SpaceX’s first international passenger
Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi during training at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: SpaceX Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has traveled to the International Space Station on a space shuttle and a Russian capsule. He’s now gearing up to launch on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship, becoming only the third person to launch from Earth into…
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Offshore conditions bump crew launch to Sunday
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION File photo of SpaceX’s drone ship “Just Read the Instructions.” Credit: SpaceX After 10 years, two successful test flights and a $6 billion investment in American enterprise, NASA is poised to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station this weekend, the first government-certified flight of a commercially…
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Astronauts rehearse for launch day as mission managers watch weather
Crew-1 astronauts Soichi Noguchi, Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover pose inside the Crew Access Arm at pad 39A Thursday. Credit: NASA/SpaceX The four astronauts preparing to ride SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Resilience” into orbit climbed aboard their spaceship Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in a practice run for a launch to the International…