Tag: Falcon 9
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Forecasters expect good weather for Crew Dragon test launch Saturday
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rolls out of the hangar at pad 39A in this file photo. Credit: SpaceX The first official launch weather outlook issued Tuesday by U.S. Air Force meteorologists predicts an 80 percent chance of favorable conditions for the predawn liftoff Saturday of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft on a test flight to…
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Take an aerial 4K video tour of the Crew Dragon atop Falcon 9
Take an aerial tour of the Crew Dragon atop the Falcon 9 rocket on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. This footage was shot in 4k video resolution by a drone camera during pre-launch testing. The Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 will return to the launch pad this week for its first test…
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NASA, SpaceX clear Crew Dragon for critical March 2 test flight
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket assigned to the Demo-1 mission inside SpaceX’s hangar at pad 39A on Dec. 18. 2018. Credit: SpaceX NASA managers held a flight readiness review Friday and cleared SpaceX to press ahead with work to ready a Falcon 9 rocket and…
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Israeli moon lander prepared for launch
The completed SpaceIL Beresheet lunar lander is pictured with its solar panels attached. Credit: SpaceIL The privately-funded Israeli Beresheet lunar lander is ready for its historic mission to the moon, aiming to become the first space probe to land on another planetary body without government funding. Funded by philanthropists and donors, the Beresheet lunar lander…
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‘Big step for Israel’: SpaceX launches lunar lander along with high-flying satellites
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches Indonesia’s Nusantara Satu telecommunications satellite as well as the Israeli Beresheet lunar lander and an Air Force research satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (SpaceX via YouTube) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent the Israeli-made Beresheet lunar lander on the first leg of its journey to the…
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SpaceX launches Indonesian satellite launch and Israeli moon mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Thursday, carrying a payload of three very different spacecraft: an Indonesian telecommunications satellite, an experimental spacecraft for the US military and the first commercial mission to attempt a landing on the Moon. Falcon lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the opening of a…
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SpaceX files protest of NASA’s Lucy launch contract awarded to ULA
File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket inside the company’s hangar at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett SpaceX has filed a protest challenging a nearly $150 million NASA contract awarded to United Launch Alliance last month to send a robotic asteroid probe into space. The protest submitted to the Government…
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Spaceflight notes expanding and evolving offerings as it prepares for first GTO rideshare mission
Hot on the heels of its first dedicated mission via the Falcon 9 launch of the SSO-A mission late last year, Spaceflight is preparing for its first rideshare mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). The Falcon 9 launch of primary payload Nusantara Satu (PSN VI) – now set to launch from SLC-40 No Earlier Than…
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First unpiloted test flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule reset for March 2
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX test-fired the Falcon 9 rocket last month that will launch the first Crew Dragon test flight. Credit: SpaceX As expected, NASA announced Wednesday that the first unpiloted test flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship has slipped from later this…
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First unpiloted test flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule reset for March 2
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX test-fired the Falcon 9 rocket last month that will launch the first Crew Dragon test flight. Credit: SpaceX As expected, NASA announced Wednesday that the first unpiloted test flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship has slipped from later this…