Tag: Reusability
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ULA touts new Vulcan rocket in competition with SpaceX
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s illustration of a Vulcan rocket launching from Cape Canaveral. Credit: United Launch Alliance SpaceX and its visionary founder Elon Musk win the lion’s share of public attention in the commercial rocket arena, with dramatic, increasingly routine booster landings and spectacular stunts like the launch of Musk’s Tesla…
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Launch preps advance in California for next Falcon 9 flight
All 10 Iridium Next satellites for the next Falcon 9 launch have arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for liftoff March 29. Credit: Iridium SpaceX’s fifth launch of replacement spacecraft for Iridium’s global voice and data communications network is set for March 29 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a flight that…
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Live coverage: Hispasat communications lifts off on Falcon 9 rocket
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite for Hispasat of Madrid, Spain. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior to launch, and will be available on this page.
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with Hispasat 30W-6
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite into orbit around 33 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is poised for launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:33 a.m.…
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SpaceX launch with Spanish satellite planned for early Tuesday
SpaceX aims to launch its next mission, the 50th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, just after midnight Tuesday from Cape Canaveral with a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat. The two-hour launch window opens at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT). The Hispasat 30W-6 telecom craft will ride a 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket from the…
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SpaceX’s Mr. Steven, the FSV fairing catcher
Last Thursday, SpaceX performed its first full-blown fairing recovery test during the Falcon 9 launch of PAZ and two Starlink demonstration satellites. The attempt involved a new addition to the SpaceX recovery fleet, Mr. Steven, complete with a giant net that is designed to catch returning fairings. While the catch during the PAZ mission was…
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SpaceX postpones Falcon 9 launch over payload fairing concerns
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX officials have postponed the launch of a Spanish-owned telecommunications satellite from Cape Canaveral planned for this weekend to conduct additional testing on the Falcon 9’s payload fairing pressurization system, the company announced Saturday. SpaceX did not set a…
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SpaceX fires up Falcon 9 rocket for weekend launch from Florida
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Feb. 22 with weather forecast. A view of the Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday, awaiting the attachment of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite for launch Sunday. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A Falcon 9 rocket booked to launch a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat, a Madrid-based telecom company,…
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New drone ship under construction for SpaceX rocket landings
File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster being offloaded from a drone ship at Port Canaveral, Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX will deploy a new rocket landing platform off Florida’s Space Coast to enter a rotation with another drone ship stationed at Cape Canaveral, company founder Elon Musk said Monday. The third drone ship…
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Video: Replay of SpaceX’s first launch and landing of 2018
Watch a replay of the launch and landing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 7 at Cape Canaveral. This video shows the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket taking off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 8 p.m. EST Jan. 7 (0100 GMT Jan. 8) and climbing through mostly clear skies over Florida’s…