Tag: Falcon 9
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Video: Falcon 9 hot fire
The SpaceX launch team fired the Falcon 9 main engines at pad 39A today as a readiness test for next week’s Inmarsat satellite deployment flight. Video by Spaceflight Now
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket set for launch Monday
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite for mobile broadband connectivity. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket set for launch Monday
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite for mobile broadband connectivity. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Bulgaria’s first communications satellite to ride SpaceX’s second reused rocket
The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket descends to a landing platform in the Pacific Ocean following a Jan. 14 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Credit: SpaceX A U.S.-built, Bulgarian-owned broadcast satellite will launch in mid-June from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a previously-used SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that…
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Photos: SpaceX kicks off the week with Falcon 9 launch and landing
SpaceX started the week with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida just after sunrise Monday, delivering a classified U.S. government spy satellite to orbit as the booster’s first stage returned to Cape Canaveral for a vertical landing. The nine-minute flight from launch to landing produced stunning imagery,…
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Photos: SpaceX kicks off the week with Falcon 9 launch and landing
SpaceX started the week with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida just after sunrise Monday, delivering a classified U.S. government spy satellite to orbit as the booster’s first stage returned to Cape Canaveral for a vertical landing. The nine-minute flight from launch to landing produced stunning imagery,…
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SpaceX improving launch cadence, testing new goals
Following the launch of the NROL-76 spacecraft on Monday – which also included a successful Second Stage extended coast test – SpaceX is already deep into preparations to launch its next mission, with the Inmarsat 5 F4 satellite, in the middle of this month. The company’s improving launch cadence is being achieved mainly via the use…
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Video: Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket viewed from KSC press site
Email the author. Check out a view of the Falcon 9 launch Monday from our camera at the Kennedy Space Center press site about three miles from pad 39A. The rocket blasted off at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT) with a top secret spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. Monday’s mission marked the 33rd…
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Video: Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket viewed from KSC press site
Email the author. Check out a view of the Falcon 9 launch Monday from our camera at the Kennedy Space Center press site about three miles from pad 39A. The rocket blasted off at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT) with a top secret spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. Monday’s mission marked the 33rd…
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Watch spectacular video of Monday’s Falcon 9 blastoff and landing
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from the historic seaside launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday and powered a classified NRO spy satellite into space, then the launcher’s first stage descended to a vertical landing at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, producing spectacular video as the booster maneuvered in the…