Tag: Kennedy Space Center
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s 12th batch of approximately 60 Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission audio”] [tabbyending]
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Penultimate piece of NASA’s first SLS rocket arrives at Kennedy Space Center
The Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter for the first Space Launch System test flight was offloaded from NASA’s Pegasus barge July 30 and transferred into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: TOSC/Tracy Yates One of the final pieces for the first test flight of NASA’s huge Space Launch System heavy-lift…
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NASA developing plans to fly astronauts on suborbital rockets
File photo of a New Shepard launch. Credit: Blue Origin NASA says it is interested in flying astronauts and scientists on commercial suborbital vehicles, like those being tested by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin, to provide additional training and research opportunities augmenting missions to the orbiting International Space Station. The space agency announced this week…
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Live coverage: SpaceX scrubs Starlink launch
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s tenth batch of Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Spaceflight Now members can watch a live view of the pad. Join…
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SpaceX gearing up for another launch of Starlink broadband satellites this week
File photo of a Falcon 9 launch. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now For the third time in three weeks, SpaceX is preparing to launch a batch of satellites for the company’s Starlink Internet network from Florida’s Space Coast. Liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket is set for Thursday afternoon from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
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SLS booster segments arrive in Florida, but stacking on hold until core stage test
The 10 booster segments for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System travel across a bridge between Titusville, Florida, and the Kennedy Space Center on Monday, June 15. Credit: Northrop Grumman Fueled segments of the solid rocket boosters that will lift off on the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System have arrived at…
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South Korean satellite shipped to Cape Canaveral for Falcon 9 launch next month
Artist’s concept of a Eurostar E3000 satellite in orbit. The Anasis 2 spacecraft built for the South Korean government is based on the Airbus Eurostar E3000 satellite platform, but other design details have not been disclosed. Credit: Airbus A communications satellite built for the South Korean military arrived at Cape Canaveral this week from an…
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Closer than humanly possible: New launch pad photos capture historic SpaceX liftoff in all its glory
Flames from the Falcon 9 Merlin engines at liftoff. 1300 ft (400 m) from launchpad (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are now safely aboard the International Space Station after yesterday’s historic launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.…
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Assembly of Mars rover’s rocket to begin this week
EDITOR’S NOTE: United Launch Alliance ground crews raised the Atlas 5 rocket’s first stage inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Thursday, May 28, to begin stacking of the launch vehicle for the Perseverance rover mission. Wrapped up for shipment, the first stage of the Atlas 5 rocket that will launch…
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Launch preparations continue for NASA’s next Mars rover
NASA’s Perseverance rover is seen underneath its back shell inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 29. Credit: NASA JPL/Christian Mangano On track for launch from Cape Canaveral in July, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been secured to its rocket-powered descent stage and back shell, part of the…