Tag: Falcon 9
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Israeli lunar lander passes tests in preparation for SpaceX launch to the moon
SpaceIL’s Beresheet lunar lander is suspended at a payload processing facility in Florida. (SpaceIL Photo via Twitter) The managers of Israel’s first mission to the moon say their lunar lander has passed a crucial set of tests in preparation for February’s launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with an assist from a Seattle space…
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Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight
A plume of rocket exhaust emerges from the flame trench at launch pad 39A during Thursday’s Falcon 9 hold-down test-firing. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sporting human-rating upgrades such as new composite pressurant tanks briefly ignited its nine Merlin engines Thursday afternoon on a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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Falcon 9 rocket fires engines in key test ahead of Crew Dragon demo flight
A plume of rocket exhaust emerges from the flame trench at launch pad 39A during Thursday’s Falcon 9 hold-down test-firing. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sporting human-rating upgrades such as new composite pressurant tanks briefly ignited its nine Merlin engines Thursday afternoon on a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center…
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SpaceX conducts static fire test on Falcon 9 ahead of Crew Dragon debut
SpaceX has conducted the milestone of a static fire test in preparation of the historic Crew Dragon debut mission – Demo Mission-1 (DM-1) – from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The launch will be the first orbital test flight of Crew Dragon, though without astronauts onboard. The Falcon 9 vehicle includes core B1051,…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon briefly fires engines in test
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with Crew Dragon spacecraft. Text updates will appear automatically below. The crew access arm at launch pad 39A extended to the Crew Dragon spacecraft when the Falcon 9 was on the…
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SpaceX begins 2019 with eighth and final launch for upgraded Iridium network
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 7:31 a.m. PST (10:31 a.m. EST; 1531 GMT) Friday with 10 more Iridium communications satellites. Credit: SpaceX Ten Iridium communications satellites rode a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Friday from California in the eighth and final launch for Iridium’s upgraded network…
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SpaceX begins 2019 with eighth and final launch for upgraded Iridium network
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 7:31 a.m. PST (10:31 a.m. EST; 1531 GMT) Friday with 10 more Iridium communications satellites. Credit: SpaceX Ten Iridium communications satellites rode a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Friday from California in the eighth and final launch for Iridium’s upgraded network…
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SpaceX launches final batch of Iridium telecom satellites (and lands rocket)
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into space. (SpaceX via YouTube) SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket deployed the eighth and final set of next-generation Iridium satellites into orbit today, closing off a two-year launch campaign. The rocket rose into partly cloudy skies from California’s Vandenberg…
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Iridium boss reflects as final NEXT satellite constellation launches
The eighth and final Iridium NEXT launch – that was conducted on Friday – will bring to fruition a near 12-year campaign to replace and upgrade the Iridium communications network in Earth orbit. Iridium NEXT-8 launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Liftoff took place during a…
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Launch timeline for SpaceX’s eighth mission for Iridium
Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent to orbit with the another set of 10 next-generation satellites for Iridium’s voice and data relay fleet. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket will lift off Friday at 7:31 a.m. PST (10:31 a.m. EST; 1531 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in…