Tag: Reusability
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Gallery of photos from Monday’s Falcon 9 flight
Taking off and landing in the middle of the night at Cape Canaveral, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully delivered a Dragon supply ship to orbit for the International Space Station as the launcher’s first stage booster swooped to a spectacular touchdown. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 12:45:29 a.m. EDT (0445:29…
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Weather looks favorable for Falcon 9 launch and landing
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft before a previous launch. Credit: SpaceX Forecasters predict mostly clear skies and light winds at the surface and aloft for Monday’s launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on a resupply mission to the International Space Station, favorable conditions for the booster’s liftoff and landing…
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Blue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth time
Updated at 11:15 a.m. EDT (1515 GMT) Sunday after successful flight. Blue Origin’s suborbital space transport system made another test flight Sunday, launching and landing at the company’s West Texas test facility to prove out the crew capsule’s resiliency to a parachute failure. The test flight also marked a change in public relations for the once-secretive…
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SpaceX’s latest booster back home as company mulls pricing, proof tests
A Falcon 9 first stage booster returned to Port Canaveral aboard SpaceX’s landing barge Thursday, six days after touching down following liftoff with the Thaicom 8 telecom satellite. Credit: SpaceX A Falcon 9 rocket core recovered after last week’s launch of a Thai communications satellite returned to port in Florida on Thursday as SpaceX preps…
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Reusability success on Earth is the proving ground for Mars goals – SpaceX
SpaceX’s Lars Hoffman stated his company’s continued advancements with its reusability goals are not only focused on reducing launch costs, but are aimed at providing a technology roadmap for its Martian goals. As the latest recovered Falcon 9 first stage sailed into Port Canaveral, Mr. Hoffman stated the recovery achievements are providing the tools for…
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Ride aboard the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on descent
Take a virtual trip from space back to planet Earth with an sped up video clip showing the eye-popping on-board views from the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster Friday as it plummeted back to Earth, opened aerodynamic steering fins and fired its engines for a final braking maneuver just before touchdown. The 156-foot-tall booster…
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SpaceX logs successful late afternoon launch for Thaicom
The Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 5:39 p.m. EDT (2139 GMT) Friday in this view from the roof the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: SpaceX A Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral and climbed into space Friday, propelling a Thai television relay satellite into orbit…
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SpaceX logs successful late afternoon launch for Thaicom
The Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 5:39 p.m. EDT (2139 GMT) Friday in this view from the roof the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: SpaceX A Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral and climbed into space Friday, propelling a Thai television relay satellite into orbit…
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Falcon 9 sails through customary preflight engine firing
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine kerosene-fueled Merlin engines on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Tuesday evening in a critical milestone before liftoff with a commercial Thai communications satellite later in the week. Held down by restraints at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad, the two-stage booster fired its engines for…
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Timeline for Falcon 9’s launch of the Thaicom 8 satellite
The Falcon 9 rocket’s fifth flight of the year will take off from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, heaving the Thaicom 8 communications satellite into orbit on an easterly trajectory from Florida’s Space Coast. It will take about 32 minutes to inject the approximately 6,800-pound (3,100-kilogram) spacecraft into a highly elliptical geostationary transfer orbit on the…