Tag: Kennedy Space Center
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Crew-4 mission to ISS begins with pre-dawn liftoff
The fourth SpaceX Commercial Crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on Wednesday, April 27 at 03:52 Eastern Daylight Time (07:52 UTC), using Falcon 9 B1067-4 for the first flight of Crew Dragon C212, also known as Freedom. Crew-4, the seventh flight of the Crew Dragon vehicle with people on board, flew…
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SpaceX testing and building boosters at Starbase as Florida Starship factory begins construction
Booster 7 has been returned to the High Bay after undergoing two ambient tests and a cryogenic test at the orbital launch site. Teams have, in the meantime, continued progress on the construction of Booster 8, while welcoming new Raptor 2 engines to Starbase in support of the eventual orbital test flight for Starship and…
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Axiom-1 launches first ever private crewed mission to ISS
SpaceX and Axiom Space launched the AX-1 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, April 8, 2022, at 11:17:11 am EDST / 15:17:11 UTC from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The first private crewed mission to the station is using the Crew Dragon Endeavour, flying its third mission, and will…
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NASA moon rocket SLS rolls out to “rebuilt” LC-39B ahead of Artemis 1 rehearsal
A moment more than a decade in the making. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis 1 mission made its first trip down the crawlerway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday evening, March 17. Rollout first motion happened just before 6:00 pm EDT (22:00 UTC) for a planned 11-hour journey…
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Frosty Texas vehicles and groundwork in Florida ahead of Starship evolution
Future vehicles are continuing to take shape in what appears to be a multi-flow of preparations at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas. While Booster 4 and Ship 20 continue to provide valuable ground test data at the launch site, modifications are being employed on future Boosters and Ships undergoing preparation down the road at…
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SpaceX keeping up the pace with Starlink Group 4-9 launch
SpaceX has launched another 47 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. The liftoff occurred at 9:25 AM EST (14:25 UTC) on Thursday, March 3, from the historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission marked SpaceX’s ninth launch of 2022 and their first launch of the month. The 45th Weather…
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Focus on Florida – SpaceX lays the ground work for East Coast Starship sites
A significant construction effort has begun in Florida to create a home port for Starship on the East Coast. With a launch facility at the historic 39A, potentially followed by pads at LC-49, the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is likely to become the flagship launch site for Starship in the coming years, supplemented by Starbase…
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Focus on Florida – SpaceX lays the ground work for East Coast Starship sites
A significant construction effort has begun in Florida to create a home port for Starship on the East Coast. With a launch facility at the historic 39A, potentially followed by pads at LC-49, the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is likely to become the flagship launch site for Starship in the coming years, supplemented by Starbase…
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SpaceX conducts first orbital launch of 2022 with Starlink Group 4-5
SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites to the fourth shell of the constellation for the first global orbital launch attempt of the year. Lifting off from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), the Starlink Group 4-5 mission lifted 49 Starlink v1.5 satellites southeastward from Kennedy into a 210 x 339 km low Earth orbit with…
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NASA, SpaceX launch IXPE x-ray observatory atop Falcon 9
NASA and SpaceX have launched the revolutionary Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Thursday morning atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 1:00 a.m. EST (06:00 UTC). IXPE is a 325 kg, three-telescope polarized x-ray observatory. A joint venture between NASA and the Italian Space…