Tag: Kennedy Space Center
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Fire returns to flame trench at Apollo-era launch pad in Florida
Credit: William Harwood/CBS News Nine Merlin engines ignited and throttled up to nearly 2 million pounds of thrust Sunday during a brief hold-down firing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, sending a plume of smoke out of the flame trench at Kennedy Space Center’s historic launch pad 39A as the company preps for a space station…
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Live coverage: SpaceX begins final launch preparations at historic launch pad
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the first Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will send a Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Station cargo flight leapfrogs commercial satellite launch on SpaceX manifest
A view of launch pad 39A, with SpaceX’s rocket erector vertical, taken on Jan. 26. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images SpaceX said Sunday that the first Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A, a former shuttle-era complex at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is scheduled to send a Dragon supply ship to…
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‘Great relief’ the worst of Hurricane Matthew stayed away from space center
Kennedy Space Center officials said Tuesday that Hurricane Matthew knocked out the main cooling system for the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building and surrounding structures, but they expect no lingering effects from the storm on NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spaceship scheduled for their first full-scale test flight around the moon in 2018. Employees returned…
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Hurricane Matthew passes by Cape Canaveral coastline
Updated at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Credit: National Weather Service Hurricane Matthew slammed NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, home to multiple launch pads and spacecraft assembly facilities, with wind gusts of more than 100 mph early Friday, but there were no immediate reports of significant damage at the spaceport as officials assessed the storm’s impact…
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Kennedy Space Center, Air Force station, brace for Matthew
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NOAA’s GOES-East weather satellite captured this image of Hurricane Matthew around 11:45 a.m. EDT (1445 GMT) Thursday, when the storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph. Credit: NOAA Launch pads and critical facilities at the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are braced…
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Kennedy Space Center, Air Force station, brace for Matthew
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NOAA’s GOES-East weather satellite captured this image of Hurricane Matthew around 11:45 a.m. EDT (1445 GMT) Thursday, when the storm had maximum sustained winds of 140 mph. Credit: NOAA Launch pads and critical facilities at the Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are braced…
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Hurricane Matthew forecast track prompts precautions at the Cape
Forecast track from the 45th Space Wing’s Weather Squadron. As Hurricane Matthew churns ever closer to the United States, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station have begun preparations for possible impacts from the storm. At 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) today, KSC went to Hurricane Condition 3 alert status. HURCON…
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Hurricane Matthew forecast track prompts precautions at the Cape
Forecast track from the 45th Space Wing’s Weather Squadron. As Hurricane Matthew churns ever closer to the United States, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station have begun preparations for possible impacts from the storm. At 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) today, KSC went to Hurricane Condition 3 alert status. HURCON…
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Quick work saved the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission from nearby explosion
Smoke pours off Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad shortly after a Sept. 1 explosion. Credit: U.S. Air Force Engineers scrambled to keep NASA’s billion-dollar asteroid-bound OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on track for its launch last week in the aftermath of an explosion a mile away at SpaceX’s launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Quick action by safety…