Tag: APSTAR 5C

  • Another recovered Falcon 9 booster arrives back in port

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    WATCH: SpaceX booster rocket arrives at Port Canaveral after launching Early Monday morning. This was a live recording as it passed by Jetty Park. Gotta love all this space stuff! pic.twitter.com/D67U7iH0y0 — Port Canaveral (@PortCanaveral) September 12, 2018 SpaceX brought another Falcon 9 booster into Port Canaveral on Wednesday, a little more than two days…

  • Photos: Falcon 9 rocket blasts off with Telstar 18 VANTAGE comsat

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    SpaceX launched its 16th mission of the year early Monday, lighting up a nighttime sky with a Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a Canadian-owned commercial communications satellite to orbit. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) after a weather delay to…

  • SpaceX, Telesat achieve repeat success with midnight-hour launch

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    A Falcon 9 rocket streaks into space after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday. Credit: SpaceX For the second time in seven weeks, SpaceX, Telesat and SSL teamed up for a commercial satellite launch from Cape Canaveral early Monday, this time successfully deploying into orbit a high-power…

  • Falcon 9 launch timeline with Telstar 18 VANTAGE

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Monday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Telstar 18 VANTAGE communications satellite into orbit around 32 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 11:28…

  • Live coverage: Falcon 9 lifts off after weather delay

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the Telstar 18 VANTAGE/APSTAR 5C communications satellite for the Canadian company Telesat. 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.

  • SpaceX launch delayed to Sunday night

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT) with SpaceX’s confirmation of the one-day delay. File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on its launch pad. Credit: SpaceX A commercial communications satellite set for launch from Florida’s Space Coast on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to beam broadband and television signals across the Asia-Pacific…

  • Hotfire test keeps SpaceX on schedule for weekend launch

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    A plume of exhaust erupted from the Falcon 9’s launch pad as the rocket test-fired its engines at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) Wednesday. Credit: William Harwood/CBS News A brief test-firing of a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday morning kept SpaceX on track for a launch Saturday night from Cape Canaveral with a communications satellite to…