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  • SpaceX puts off next Falcon 9 launch

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    File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s next launch with a European-built communications satellite has been delayed to no earlier than March 28 to study a problem with a helium pressurization system on the Falcon 9 rocket, officials said Tuesday. The liftoff was set for…

  • Innovative satellites begin maneuvers with all-electric thrusters

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    Artist’s concept of the Eutelsat 115 West B satellite. Credit: Boeing Two ion-driven communications satellites launched from Cape Canaveral on March 1 have begun novel maneuvers using electric propulsion to reach operating posts 22,300 miles over the equator. The Boeing-built satellites will need at least six months slowly climb in altitude and adjust their orbital…

  • Weeks from another launch, SpaceX keeping pace with manifest

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    File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket inside SpaceX’s hangar at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX The next launch in SpaceX’s busy manifest this year is scheduled for March 21, when a Falcon 9 rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral and deliver Turkmenistan’s first satellite into orbit. The liftoff from SpaceX’s…

  • NASA orders missions to resupply space station in 2017

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    A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station in September 2014. Credit: NASA NASA has ordered four additional launches to deliver cargo to the International Space Station in 2017 — three from SpaceX and one from Orbital ATK — to cover the research lab’s logistics needs until a new set of resupply contracts take…

  • Photos: Last look at Sunday’s launch by SpaceX

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    Sunday’s liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket marked the 16th flight of SpaceX’s workhorse launcher, and its third mission of the year. The rocket carried two communications satellites into orbit for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite. Here is another set of launch photos from SpaceX. Photo credit: SpaceX Photo credit: SpaceX Photo credit: SpaceX Photo…

  • Reader-submitted shots of Falcon 9 launch

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    Spaceflight Now readers sent in photos of Sunday’s blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, which lit up a late-night moonlit sky over Florida’s Space Coast on the way to orbit with two communications satellites. We present a selection of the reader-submitted snapshots. Photo credit: David Hash (@turndownformars) Photo credit: David Hash…

  • Boeing’s first two all-electric satellites ready for launch

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    Artist’s concept of the Eutelsat 115 West B satellite. Credit: Boeing A new class of Boeing-built spacecraft will fly into orbit for the first time Sunday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, combining Boeing’s electric propulsion technology with SpaceX’s bargain launch prices to send up communications satellites at a fraction of the typical cost. SpaceX ground…

  • Photos: Falcon 9 stands ready to launch dual-satellite stack

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    SpaceX’s 22-story Falcon 9 rocket stands on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Sunday, hours before the scheduled liftoff of a pair of commercial communications satellites for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite. The mission is set for takeoff at 10:50 p.m. EST Sunday (0350 GMT Monday) at the opening of a 42-and-a-half minute launch window.…

  • SpaceX Falcon 9 launches debut dual satellite mission

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made its sixteenth launch Sunday, carrying a pair of commercial communications satellites in the company’s first dual launch to a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The Falcon departed at the first attempt from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at the start of a 44-minute window that opened at 22:50 local time (03:50…

  • Falcon 9 launch timeline with Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS 3A

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    Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent into space from Cape Canaveral with the Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS 3A communications satellites. Launch is set for 10:50 p.m. EST on March 1 (0350 GMT on March 2) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. The satellites will be deployed in a…