Tag: Falcon 9
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Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by high winds aloft
The Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Unfavorable high-altitude winds above Cape Canaveral on Tuesday kept a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with a NOAA space weather observatory on the ground another day. The 22-story rocket was filled with rocket-grade kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants, and nothing else…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches the DSCOVR spacecraft
Nearly fifteen years after its originally planned launch date, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission has set sail atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday at 18:03 local time. A scrub on Sunday’s was followed by unacceptable Upper Level winds ahead of the second attempt on Tuesday.…
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SpaceX plans a busy day Tuesday
File photo of a SpaceX Dragon supply ship at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Tuesday is shaping up to be a busy day for SpaceX, with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a NOAA space weather satellite, an experimental booster flyback maneuver to advance reusable launch technologies, and the splashdown of a…
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17 years later, Gore makes case for viewing Earth from deep space
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, and former Vice President Al Gore speak to reporters at the Kennedy Space Center before Sunday’s launch attempt for the Deep Space Climate Observatory. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett After waiting nearly two decades for dream to become reality, former Vice President Al Gore said Sunday the mission he fostered in 1998 —…
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Falcon 9 countdown halted by faulty radar tracker
Updated: 10:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 8 A problem with a U.S. Air Force tracking radar kept a Falcon 9 rocket crowned with a NOAA space weather observatory grounded Sunday, forcing a long-delayed mission to stay on Earth at least one more day. The countdown at Cape Canaveral smoothly ticked toward a target launch time…
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Photos: SpaceX rocket standing on launch pad
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad ahead of a Feb. 8 launch attempt with NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory. The rocket will send the 1,250-pound spacecraft on an escape trajectory toward an operating post nearly a million miles from Earth to detect incoming solar storms. Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight…
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Photos: DSCOVR buttoned up for Falcon 9 launch
Engineers worked inside a climate-controlled clean room for two months to ready NOAA’s new space weather observatory for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Deep Space Climate Observatory, equipped to detect incoming solar storms and give scientists a new view of Earth’s climate, will blast off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape…
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Storied space weather observatory finally ready for launch
The Deep Space Climate Observatory inside a clean room before launch. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky The world’s most distant weather outpost is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launching to a point a million miles from Earth to warn forecasters of solar storms that could disrupt global air…
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New challenges await SpaceX’s next rocket landing attempt
A view of SpaceX’s rocket landing ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: SpaceX via Elon Musk A rocket recovery team positioned off Florida’s East Coast is standing by for liftoff Sunday of a Falcon 9 launcher with a space weather satellite, but the demanding trajectory of the flight adds more unknowns to the company’s dicey…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 soars into space with DSCOVR
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.