Tag: Falcon 9
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Live coverage: NASA planet-hunting satellite launched by SpaceX
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. [tabby title=”NASA TV”] [tabby title=”SpaceX Webcast”] [tabby title=”SFN Clean Feed”] [tabbyending]
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SpaceX rocket test-fired at Cape Canaveral for NASA telescope launch
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, without its payload fairing or the satellite passenger, fired its nine Merlin 1D booster engines for several seconds Wednesday at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s launch team loaded super-chilled liquid propellants into a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday and fired the booster’s nine first stage…
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Report: Probe blames Zuma spy satellite’s loss on Northrop Grumman, not SpaceX
News Brief: Investigators have tentatively concluded that January’s loss of a U.S. spy satellite code-named Zuma was due to problems with a payload adapter that was provided by the satellite’s manufacturer, Northrop Grumman, rather than the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle, The Wall Street Journal reported today. One unnamed source told the Journal that the…
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Investigation into Zuma failure reportedly lays blame on Northrop Grumman
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Jan. 7 from Cape Canaveral with the Zuma mission. Credit: SpaceX Government investigators have exonerated SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in the loss of a top secret space mission known as Zuma in January, blaming a malfunction in a component modified by Northrop Grumman that connected the launcher with its…
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on SpaceX’s 14th station cargo mission
Packed with food, hardware and experiments in biology, Earth science and space technology, a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon supply ship lifted off Monday from Cape Canaveral destined for the International Space Station. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket took off at 4:30:38 p.m. EDT (2030:38 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad, then turned to…
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SpaceX sends reused cargo ship to space station on reused Falcon 9 rocket … again
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from its Florida launch pad. (NASA via YouTube) SpaceX sent nearly three tons of supplies, hardware and experiments to the International Space Station today, using a Falcon 9 rocket booster and a Dragon capsule that have both been flown before. The rocket rose from its launch pad at Cape…
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Live coverage: SpaceX resupply mission arrives at space station
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s 14th operational Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Video: Multi-angle replays of Falcon 9’s liftoff from Cape Canaveral
Watch views of the Falcon 9 rocket’s fiery liftoff Monday at Cape Canaveral from multiple angles as the slender, kerosene-fueled launcher climbed into space on the way to the International Space Station. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket took off at 4:30:38 p.m. EDT (2030:38 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad, then turned to the…
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CRS-14: SpaceX Falcon 9 conducts second flight with previously flown Dragon
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft began its fifteenth mission to the International Space Station Monday with a launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff, from Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, occurred at 16:30 Eastern Time (20:30 UTC). Monday’s launch carried CRS-14, the fourteenth flight of Dragon under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services…
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Timeline for SpaceX’s next station cargo launch
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in 10 minutes Monday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying more than 5,800 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 2030 GMT (4:30 p.m. EDT) Monday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. It will…