Tag: Falcon launch
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Blue Origin and SpaceX revisit their latest rocket landings in must-see videos
A view from the “vent cam” on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital booster shows a West Texas landscape during an April 2 flight, plus a “toasty brown” ring fin at the top of the frame. (Credit: Blue Origin) Will seeing a spaceship land on its feet ever get old? The novelty is still there in…
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Woohoo! SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes nighttime landing at sea after launching JCSAT-14 satellite
Hours after its nighttime landing, a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage stands tall on an autonomous spaceport drone ship nicknamed “Of Course I Still Love You.” (Credit: SpaceX) SpaceX increased the degree of difficulty for tonight’s Falcon 9 rocket landing attempt at sea after launching a Japanese satellite into a super-high orbit – but the feat…
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SpaceX Falcon booster comes full circle to Cape Canaveral after landing at sea
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 first-stage booster makes its way back to the company’s processing facility in Florida after its recovery at sea. (Credit: USLaunchReport.com via YouTube) Eleven days after a thrilling landing at sea, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket booster is coming back to the company’s space-age garage in Florida, in preparation for engine tests and potentially the first-ever…
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President Obama leads celebration on Twitter for SpaceX’s rocket landing at sea
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shows President Barack Obama around the company’s Cape Canaveral rocket processing site in 2010. (Credit: Bill Ingalls / NASA) SpaceX’s first-ever at-sea rocket landing was cause for a Twitter celebration that drew in President Barack Obama as well as other space-loving luminaries. SpaceX used its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket on Friday to…
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SpaceX lands Falcon rocket at sea after launching a pop-up room to space station
The first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands erect on a drone ship after landing. (Credit: SpaceX) SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule today with an expandable module for the International Space Station, and then successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on an oceangoing platform. The Atlantic Ocean landing, accomplished after four…
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SpaceX rocket launches satellite, but tips over during sea landing attempt
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rises into the fog from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, sending the Jason 3 sea-watching satellite into space. (Credit: NASA) Less than a month after SpaceX’s first successful rocket landing, billionaire Elon Musk’s company tried to do it again today – but this time, one of the rocket’s landing legs…
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SpaceX rehearses Falcon 9 rocket launch – and relives last month’s rocket landing
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fires its engines during a launch-pad test at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Monday evening. (Credit: SpaceX) SpaceX fired the engines of its Falcon 9 rocket on its California launch pad on Monday evening, marking a seemingly successful rehearsal for this weekend’s launch of the Jason 3 ocean-monitoring satellite.…
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SpaceX plans Falcon 9 rocket landing on Pacific drone ship after Jan. 17 launch
The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket descends toward a drone ship during SpaceX’s April landing try in the Atlantic. The attempt was unsuccessful, but SpaceX plans to try again in the Pacific on Jan. 17. (Credit: SpaceX) SpaceX is planning something completely different for its next rocket-landing trick: After launching the U.S.-European Jason 3 satellite…
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SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch – and lands in Florida!
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fires its engines to descend to a touchdown at Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Credit: SpaceX) SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket for the first time in six months today, and then brought the first-stage booster back down for a first-ever Florida landing. “The…
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Spaceflight buys a whole rocket from SpaceX for small satellites
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off in April, sending cargo to the International Space Station. The payloads included Planetary Resources’ A3R satellite, which was flown under an arrangement with Seattle-based Spaceflight. (Credit: SpaceX) In the first deal of its kind, Seattle-based Spaceflight says it’s buying a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will be set aside…