Tag: Falcon 9
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SpaceX, NASA conduct static fire test of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Crew-11 launch
SpaceX conducts a static fire test of its Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 12:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC) on Tuesday, July 29, 2025. The hot fire test of the rocket is part of the prelaunch evaluations leading up to the liftoff of the Crew-11 mission to the…
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SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into a polar orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-2 mission on July 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update July 26, 12:56 a.m.: The Falcon 9 booster landed on the droneship. SpaceX launched another 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit onboard a Falcon 9 rocket flying…
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SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into a polar orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-2 mission on July 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update July 26, 12:56 a.m.: The Falcon 9 booster landed on the droneship. SpaceX launched another 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit onboard a Falcon 9 rocket flying…
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Crew-11 astronauts, cosmonaut arrive in Florida ahead of launch to the space station
The three astronauts and cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission descend from a Gulfstream jet at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. From bottom to top: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. Image: John Pisani/Spaceflight Now The next…
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Amazon says $139.5 million investment in Florida is key to ramping up launch cadence with Project Kuiper
Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot payload processing facility at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The site is used to prepare its Project Kuiper satellites ahead of launches on Blue Origin’s New Glenn, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and United Launch Alliances’s Vulcan and Atlas 5 rockets. Image: Amazon Amazon is hoping to get a…
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FAA caused Falcon 9 TRACERS launch scrub
The FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) has noted that it was responsible for the scrub of a SpaceX launch at the Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday. SpaceX was gearing up to launch TRACERS, NASA’s latest mission to study solar wind and how it impacts Earth, with liftoff set to occur at SLC-4E at Vandenberg, with…
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SpaceX, NASA launch TRACERS to study Earth’s magnetic field
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California, carrying a series of investigative missions and technology demonstrators designed to enable new capabilities and reduce time to launch, with several of them fielded under various NASA programs. NASA’s TRACERS mission and other payloads launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East…
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FAA: ‘Regional power outage’ causes last-minute scrub of NASA’s TRACERS mission
NASA’s two TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) are encapsulated along with five other satellites ahead of launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Image: NASA Update July 23, 2:30 p.m. EDT: Launch occurred at 11:13 a.m. PDT (2:13 p.m. EDT, 1813 UTC). Update July 22, 6 p.m.…
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SpaceX launches 15th mission for SES following one-day scrub
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars away from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, carrying the fifth pair of SES’ O3b mPOWER satellites for its medium Earth orbit constellation. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update July 22, 5:47 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship, ‘Just Read the…
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Launch Roundup: Russian and European science missions launched during busy week
Seven launches took place this week. Four of these are Falcon 9s, with SpaceX launching two customer missions and two Starlink missions. Internationally, Russia and Europe have both launched science payloads, while, in Australia, Gilmour Space intended to attempt to launch its Eris rocket once again, but has delayed again, into next week. In China,…