Tag: Falcon 9
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Satellite owners among bystanders in Falcon 9 accident
Updated June 30 with SpaceX comment. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral on Sunday. The rocket broke apart at about T+plus 2 minutes, 19 seconds, and SpaceX is focusing its investigation on the second stage. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images The long queue of satellites waiting on launches aboard SpaceX’s…
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SpaceX failure adds another kink in station supply chain
Updated at 3 p.m. EDT on June 29. This image of the International Space Station is from a video recorded by a Soyuz spacecraft on final approach to the complex in March. Credit: NASA/Roscosmos Managers in charge of International Space Station say the massive orbiting laboratory and its residents can keep going despite Sunday’s failure…
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Photos: Falcon 9 breaks apart en route to ISS
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket broke apart just after launch on a commercial resupply run to the International Space Station. Here are a few images from NASA TV’s launch broadcast. Email the author. Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.
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Falcon 9 rocket destroyed in launch mishap
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship loaded with more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station — including a critical docking adapter needed by future U.S. crew ships — broke apart in a shower of debris shortly after…
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Video: SpaceX supply mission explodes just after launch
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket failed approximately 2 minutes, 20 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Sunday. Watch a video of the dramatic launch failure, plus a slowed-down version at one-tenth normal speed in the second video window. Email the author. Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.
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Falcon 9’s launch failure viewed from KSC press site
Spaceflight Now’s camera at the Kennedy Space Center’s Complex 39 press site captured this view of the Falcon 9 rocket’s high-altitude anomaly Sunday. Email the author. Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.
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Photos: SpaceX supply ship poised for blastoff
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, standing 208 feet tall, is mounted on a Cape Canaveral launch pad for liftoff with a fresh package of supplies and research experiments for the International Space Station. The kerosene-fueled launcher was counting down to takeoff at 10:21 a.m. EDT (1421 GMT) Sunday to kick off the Dragon supply ship’s two-day…
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 fails during launch following second stage issue
SpaceX launched its eighth Dragon resupply mission, on a flight that was scheduled to loft cargo to the International Space Station – along with a docking adaptor for future manned missions. However, the launch failed just over two minutes into the ascent from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 10:21 local time (14:21 UTC),…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 disintegrates after launch
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on a resupply mission 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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Falcon 9 rocket passes last major preflight test
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX Ground crews plan to load the final cargo into SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship Saturday after the capsule’s Falcon 9 rocket booster briefly fired up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral for a flight readiness check. The Falcon 9 rocket ignited its…