Tag: Falcon 9
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Video: Falcon 9 joins rising moon in the sky during middle-of-the-night launch
Video credit: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now Flying with a reused first stage booster, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbed into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast early Monday with a commercial communications satellite for the Luxembourg-based operator SES. The Falcon 9 took off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT)…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with SES 12
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Monday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the SES 12 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 12:29 a.m.…
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Live coverage: SpaceX rocket launches with SES 12 communications satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the SES 12 communications satellite for SES of Luxembourg. 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.
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Night launch: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends SES-12 telecom satellite into orbit
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sends the SES-12 satellite into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (SpaceX via YouTube) News Brief: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent the SES-12 telecommunications satellite into orbit tonight in a no-drama night launch. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida came at 12:45 a.m. ET…
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Falcon 9 conducts SES-12 night launch from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX launched their sixth mission for telecommunications giants SES. The launch, using a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket to deploy the SES-12 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit, occurred at 00:45 Eastern on Monday, departing from SLC-40 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch of SES-12, SpaceX’s eleventh mission of the year, continues a…
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New photos illustrate progress in SpaceX’s fairing recovery attempts
One-half of the payload fairing from a May 22 launch of a Falcon 9 rocket parachutes into the Pacific Ocean a few hundred miles south of Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Credit: SpaceX Photos released by SpaceX this week show how close the company’s payload fairing retrieval ship got to catching two halves of a…
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SpaceX delays launch to run additional tests on rocket
File photo of a previous Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has delayed the launch of the SES 12 commercial communications satellite from Cape Canaveral until Monday to conduct additional tests on the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage, officials said Thursday. The liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40…
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SpaceX test-fires previously-flown rocket for May 31 launch
A cloud of exhaust rises from SpaceX’s launch pad at Cape Canaveral after Thursday night’s engine firing. Credit: Spaceflight Now The nine Merlin main engines at the base of a recycled Falcon 9 rocket booster ignited Thursday night for several seconds during a pre-flight test-firing on a Cape Canaveral launch pad, clearing a major hurdle…
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket ignites for hold-down test at Cape Canaveral
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ignited its main engines at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Thursday night, clearing a major hurdle before liftoff May 31 with the SES 12 communications satellite. The Falcon 9’s nine Merlin 1D main engines ignited at 9:30 p.m. EDT Thursday (0130 GMT Friday) as clamps held the two-stage rocket firmly…
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New helium tank for SpaceX crew launches still waiting to fly
Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is still working on a new, safer helium tank design needed for launches with astronauts, and the debut of the company’s upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket earlier this month did not count as one of seven successful missions in “crew configuration” NASA says it requires before putting astronauts aboard the vehicle,…