Tag: SpaceX
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on 47th Starlink launch of 2023
Update 9:05 p.m. EDT (2222 UTC): Launch at 8:39 p.m. EDT (0039 UTC). SpaceX followed up a double launch day on Friday, Oct. 13, with an evening launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, sending up another 22 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. The Tuesday evening mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40)…
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on 47th Starlink launch of 2023
Update 9:05 p.m. EDT (2222 UTC): Launch at 8:39 p.m. EDT (0039 UTC). SpaceX followed up a double launch day on Friday, Oct. 13, with an evening launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, sending up another 22 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. The Tuesday evening mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40)…
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SpaceX gearing up for a possible WDR as it waits for regulatory approval
While Ship 26 started its engine testing campaign, SpaceX looks to be gearing up for a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for Booster 9 and Ship 25. Related notices have been posted for the coming week, as SpaceX returned to a full stack for the next Starship to launch – as soon as November, pending regulatory…
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NASA just launched the Psyche mission—no one knows what it will find
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—A roughly 3-ton spacecraft launched Friday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin a six-year trip to an enigma in the asteroid belt, an unusual metallic world the size of Massachusetts that could hold clues about the formation of Earth and other rocky planets. This mission, named Psyche, will survey its…
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Live coverage: SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches NASA’s Psyche on mission to a metal asteroid
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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites on its second Friday launch
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites, delayed by upper level winds and held up for the Falcon Heavy launch of NASA’s Psyche, launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:01 p.m. EDT (2301 UTC) Friday night. The U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron, based at Cape Canaveral,…
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Rocket Report: European rockets finally fly; Artemis II core stage issues
Welcome to Edition 6.15 of the Rocket Report! We’re now more than three-quarters of the way through the year, and as of Thursday, there have been 156 orbital launches since January 1. Last year, which set a record for global launch activity, we didn’t reach 156 orbital launches until mid-November. At the cadence set so…
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Falcon Heavy launches NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe
Falcon Heavy climbs away from Kennedy Space Center, carrying NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. Getting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe roared into space atop a Falcon Heavy rocket Friday, setting off on a 2.2-billion-mile voyage to a rare, metal-rich asteroid that may hold clues about how the…
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NASA, SpaceX launch Psyche mission to metallic asteroid
NASA and SpaceX teams launched the agency’s Psyche mission to metallic asteroid 16 Psyche from Florida on Friday, Oct. 13. Psyche launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Launch occurred at 10:19 AM EDT (14:19 UTC). Psyche is the first mission…
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Strong winds stymie back-to-back SpaceX launch plans; Vandenberg launch successful
Update 4 a.m. EDT: A Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 12:43 a.m. PDT (0743 UTC). Its first stage booster, making its 14th flight, landed successfully on a drone ship in the Pacific. Upper level winds forced SpaceX to scrub the Starlink 6-22 mission from Cape Canaveral. SpaceX was hoping…