Tag: SLC-40
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Falcon 9 conducts SES-12 night launch from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX launched their sixth mission for telecommunications giants SES. The launch, using a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket to deploy the SES-12 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit, occurred at 00:45 Eastern on Monday, departing from SLC-40 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch of SES-12, SpaceX’s eleventh mission of the year, continues a…
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SpaceX successfully launches TESS on a mission to search for near-Earth exoplanets
SpaceX has launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS – with the launch on the Falcon 9 rocket taking place at 18:51:31 EDT (22:51:31 UTC). The planet-hunting observatory was lofted by a new Block 4 Falcon 9 rocket from SLC-40 into an orbital resonance with the moon that will allow it to perform a…
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CRS-14: SpaceX Falcon 9 conducts second flight with previously flown Dragon
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft began its fifteenth mission to the International Space Station Monday with a launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff, from Space Launch Complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, occurred at 16:30 Eastern Time (20:30 UTC). Monday’s launch carried CRS-14, the fourteenth flight of Dragon under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services…
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Falcon 9 set for CRS-14 mission completes Static Fire testing
SpaceX has conducted the milestone Static Fire test on the Falcon 9 set to launch the CRS-14 Dragon to the International Space Station (ISS). The test occurred a few hours into the six hour test window that opened at 11 AM Eastern at Cape Canaveral’s SLC-40. The latest CRS mission will once again involve hardware that highlights…
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SpaceX conducts 50th Falcon 9 launch with heavy Hispasat deployment
SpaceX launched its fiftieth Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday, deploying Spain’s Hispasat 30W-6 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit. Liftoff, from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), was on schedule at the start of a two-hour window at 00:33 local time (05:33 UTC). Hispasat 30W-6, also known as H30W-6, will be operated by Hispasat, a Spanish…
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Falcon 9 launches GovSat-1 from SLC-40 – Booster survives water landing
SpaceX launched Luxembourg’s first military spacecraft on Wednesday, with a flight-proven Falcon 9 carrying the GovSat-1 communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 was at the start of a 121-minute window that opened at 16:25 Eastern Time (21:25 UTC). Amazingly, the booster survived a water landing, despite the…
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SpaceX static fire flight-proven booster for SES-16/GovSat1 mission
For the second time this week, SpaceX has static fired one of their rockets at their Florida launch location. Static fire operations of the flight-proven booster that will launch the SES-16/GovSat1 mission next week occurred around midday local time on Friday. Static fires, while never routine (as nothing in spaceflight is), are becoming commonplace for…
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Flight proven Falcon 9 launches previously flown Dragon to ISS
SpaceX launched a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket Friday, deploying a Dragon spacecraft on the CRS-13 resupply mission to the International Space Station. The launch was conducted at the returning Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, lifting off at 10:36 Eastern time (15:36 UTC). SpaceX CRS-13 Launch: The launch was the…
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SpaceX adds mystery “Zuma” mission, Iridium-4 aims for Vandenberg landing
In what has already been a busy year for SpaceX, the commercial launch provider is adding one more mission to its jammed-packed end-of-year schedule. A mysterious mission codenamed “Zuma” will launch No Earlier Than 10 November 2017 from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Meanwhile, CRS-13 is slipping at least one week per the Station’s…
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Eastern Range ready to return with two key launches after stand down
With a busy year already in the books, the Eastern and Western Ranges in the United States are readying for the next salvo of missions from SpaceX and United Launch Alliance following a stand down of launch operations to provide time for maintenance. Specifically for the Eastern Range, the stand down period allowed the Air…