Tag: Kennedy Space Center
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Bulgaria’s first communications satellite to ride SpaceX’s second reused rocket
The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket descends to a landing platform in the Pacific Ocean following a Jan. 14 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Credit: SpaceX A U.S.-built, Bulgarian-owned broadcast satellite will launch in mid-June from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a previously-used SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that…
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Photos: SpaceX kicks off the week with Falcon 9 launch and landing
SpaceX started the week with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida just after sunrise Monday, delivering a classified U.S. government spy satellite to orbit as the booster’s first stage returned to Cape Canaveral for a vertical landing. The nine-minute flight from launch to landing produced stunning imagery,…
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Photos: SpaceX kicks off the week with Falcon 9 launch and landing
SpaceX started the week with the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida just after sunrise Monday, delivering a classified U.S. government spy satellite to orbit as the booster’s first stage returned to Cape Canaveral for a vertical landing. The nine-minute flight from launch to landing produced stunning imagery,…
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Video: Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket viewed from KSC press site
Email the author. Check out a view of the Falcon 9 launch Monday from our camera at the Kennedy Space Center press site about three miles from pad 39A. The rocket blasted off at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT) with a top secret spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. Monday’s mission marked the 33rd…
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Video: Liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket viewed from KSC press site
Email the author. Check out a view of the Falcon 9 launch Monday from our camera at the Kennedy Space Center press site about three miles from pad 39A. The rocket blasted off at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT) with a top secret spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. Monday’s mission marked the 33rd…
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SpaceX successfully boosts top secret U.S. government satellite into space
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fired into space from Florida’s Atlantic coastline Monday with a clandestine payload for a U.S. government spy agency, then returned to Cape Canaveral for a pinpoint landing. Climbing away from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with 1.7 million pounds of thrust at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT),…
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SpaceX successfully boosts top secret U.S. government satellite into space
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fired into space from Florida’s Atlantic coastline Monday with a clandestine payload for a U.S. government spy agency, then returned to Cape Canaveral for a pinpoint landing. Climbing away from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with 1.7 million pounds of thrust at 7:15 a.m. EDT (1115 GMT),…
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SpaceX launch scrubbed in final minute of countdown
A view of the Falcon 9 rocket at launch pad 39A just before Sunday’s launch attempt was scrubbed. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX scrubbed an attempt to launch a commercial Falcon 9 rocket Sunday less than a minute before liftoff, blaming a sensor issue on the vehicle’s first stage and pushing back the company’s first national security…
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SpaceX launch scrubbed in final minute of countdown
A view of the Falcon 9 rocket at launch pad 39A just before Sunday’s launch attempt was scrubbed. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX scrubbed an attempt to launch a commercial Falcon 9 rocket Sunday less than a minute before liftoff, blaming a sensor issue on the vehicle’s first stage and pushing back the company’s first national security…
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Time lapse of Falcon 9 rocket hoisted vertical at pad 39A
Watch a time lapse replay of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket as it was raised upright at launch pad 39A in Florida on Saturday, a day before its scheduled launch with a top secret payload for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket was stood up at the launch pad shortly after 8…