Tag: Kennedy Space Center
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket makes evening ascent from pad 39A
Look back on last week’s liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, capping a busy two weeks for the launch company with a successful satellite deployment flight for Intelsat. The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Florida’s Space Coast at 7:38 p.m. EDT (2338 GMT) Wednesday, July…
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NASA says it’s OK for VP Mike Pence to touch that hardware marked ‘Do Not Touch’
Even Vice President Mike Pence couldn’t resist tweeting a Photoshopped version of the “Do Not Touch” photo snapped during his visit to Kennedy Space Center. (@VP Mike Pence via Twitter) You know that viral photo of Vice President Mike Pence putting his hand on a piece of space hardware marked with a “Do Not Touch”…
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Pence vows to renew American space leadership
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Vice President Mike Pence, chairman of the recently re-established National Space Council, toured the Kennedy Space Center Thursday and vowed to renew American leadership on the high frontier, telling spaceport workers “our nation will return to the moon, and we will put American boots on the face of…
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SpaceX delivers for Intelsat on heavyweight Falcon 9 mission
Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rumbled into the sky Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, flexing the rocket’s muscles and lofting a massive Intelsat satellite to orbit supporting wireless communications, television broadcasting and trans-Atlantic data relays. Recovering from back-to-back countdown aborts earlier in the week, the two-stage, 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher lit…
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Video replay of the Falcon 9 rocket’s liftoff with Intelsat 35e
Video credit: SpaceX Launching its 10th mission this year, SpaceX delivered an Intelsat communications satellite to a high-altitude transfer orbit Wednesday with a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 took off at 7:38 p.m. EDT (2338 GMT) Wednesday and released the Intelsat 35e communications satellite into a “supersynchronous”…
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Video: Press site view of the Falcon 9’s launch with Intelsat 35e
Watch a view of the Falcon 9 rocket’s liftoff Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center as seen from the press site around three miles from the launch pad. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off at 7:38 p.m. EDT (2338 GMT) Wednesday with the Intelsat 35e communications satellite, powering into the evening sky atop 1.7 million…
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Launch of Falcon 9 rocket scrubbed second day in a row
Updated at 4:30 a.m. EDT (0830 GMT) July 4. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and the Intelsat 35e communications satellite at launch pad 39A during Monday’s final countdown. Credit: SpaceX For the second day running, computers automatically aborted a Falcon 9 launch countdown Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the final seconds before…
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SpaceX scrubs Sunday launch attempt with Intelsat relay satellite
A computer-triggered abort halted the countdown of a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, pushing back the next mission in SpaceX’s launch surge until at least Monday. The 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket was counting down to liftoff with an Intelsat communications satellite at 7:36 p.m. EDT (2336 GMT) Monday, and…
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Video: SpaceX aborts launch countdown in final seconds
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of a nearly 7.5-ton Intelsat communications satellite Sunday after a computer-triggered abort halted the countdown in the final 10 seconds. The next launch opportunity from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida could be Monday at 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT), assuming engineers can resolve the problem. The Falcon 9 rocket is…
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Photos: Expendable Falcon 9 launcher raised vertical at pad 39A
SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 rocket was hydraulically hoisted vertical Sunday morning at launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, less than 12 hours before a scheduled blastoff with the Intelsat 35e communications satellite. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is not fitted with the landing legs or aerodynamic steering fins needed for recovery because the 14,905-pound…