Tag: Falcon 9
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SpaceX completes hotfire test, preps for first California rocket landing
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Oct. 3 with 24-hour launch delay to Oct. 7. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will launch Saturday will reuse the first stage booster from a July 25 mission that carried 10 Iridium communications satellites into orbit. This photo shows the Falcon 9 rocket before the July 25 launch from California. Credit:…
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SpaceX conducts static fire test ahead of SAOCOM-1A mission, first west coast RTLS
SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket conducted its Static Fire test on Tuesday, ahead of is its next launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base – set for the weekend. This launch will be the second reflight of a Block 5 Falcon 9 first stage, core B1048. The flight will also include the first west coast Return…
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SpaceX finalizing Pad 39A upgrades for return to crew operations
SpaceX is finishing its years-long campaign to return Launch Pad 39A to crew operations. Following the installation of the Crew Access Arm (CAA), workers have now relocated the Shuttle-era slidewire baskets support structure to a higher level on the Fixed Service Structure (FSS) on Pad 39A. Additionally, although it is not required for crew operations,…
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Another recovered Falcon 9 booster arrives back in port
WATCH: SpaceX booster rocket arrives at Port Canaveral after launching Early Monday morning. This was a live recording as it passed by Jetty Park. Gotta love all this space stuff! pic.twitter.com/D67U7iH0y0 — Port Canaveral (@PortCanaveral) September 12, 2018 SpaceX brought another Falcon 9 booster into Port Canaveral on Wednesday, a little more than two days…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket blasts off with Telstar 18 VANTAGE comsat
SpaceX launched its 16th mission of the year early Monday, lighting up a nighttime sky with a Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a Canadian-owned commercial communications satellite to orbit. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) after a weather delay to…
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SpaceX, Telesat achieve repeat success with midnight-hour launch
A Falcon 9 rocket streaks into space after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday. Credit: SpaceX For the second time in seven weeks, SpaceX, Telesat and SSL teamed up for a commercial satellite launch from Cape Canaveral early Monday, this time successfully deploying into orbit a high-power…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with Telstar 18 VANTAGE
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Monday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Telstar 18 VANTAGE communications satellite into orbit around 32 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is poised for launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 11:28…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 conducts Telstar 18V Cape launch
SpaceX launched its second mission in two months for Telesat Canada Sunday, with a Falcon 9 rocket placing the Telstar 18V satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. Falcon lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a four-hour window opening at 23:28 Eastern time (03:28 UTC on Monday) – with a T-0 moved to…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Telstar 18V satellite into orbit; booster lands at sea
SpaceX launched its second heavyweight Telstar telecommunications satellite from Florida tonight, and brought the Falcon 9 rocket’s first-stage booster down for a landing on a drone ship hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission to put the 15,600-pound Telstar 18 Vantage satellite into geostationary transfer orbit for Canadian-based Telesat was nearly a…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 lifts off after weather delay
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the Telstar 18 VANTAGE/APSTAR 5C communications satellite for the Canadian company Telesat. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior to launch, and will be available on this page.