Tag: commercial-space
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Watch a replay of the Falcon 9 engine test
The Falcon 9 rocket’s main engines briefly ignited at launch pad 39A in a standard pre-launch test. This is the second time this booster has test fired its engines on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral. The first stage first fired at launch complex 40 prior to the CRS-8 space station resupply mission in April…
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Watch Falcon 9 go upright on the launch pad in time lapse video
A Falcon 9 rocket is moved into the position for a static test firing of its nine Merlin 1D engines on March 27, 2017. This is second time this vehicle has stood on a launch pad in readiness for launch. It will be the first time SpaceX has reused a Falcon 9 first stage. This…
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Hotfire test completed ahead of milestone Falcon 9 launch Thursday
SpaceX tweeted this image of the Falcon 9 rocket conducting its static fire test at pad 39A on Monday afternoon. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has set the first launch of a “flight-proven” Falcon 9 rocket for Thursday evening after running the booster through a hold-down engine firing Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Nearly…
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Live coverage: Reused Falcon 9 rocket prepared for launch
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the third Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the first to use a previously-flown Falcon first stage booster. The mission will launch the SES 10 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page.…
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SES 10 telecom satellite fueled and readied for launch on reused rocket
SES 10 at its manufacturing site at Airbus Defense and Space in Toulouse, France. Credit: Airbus Defense and Space Launch preparations for the SES 10 communications satellite, the first spacecraft to ride a reused Falcon 9 booster to space, are on track for a late March blastoff from Florida, officials said. The satellite, designed to…
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Photos: EchoStar 23 takes flight on Falcon 9 rocket
The EchoStar 23 communications satellite, on the way to a 15-year service life broadcasting television signals, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Thursday from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 12,345-pound (5,600-kilogram) spacecraft took off at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT) aboard the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 booster. Around 34…
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Watch the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch the EchoStar 23 satellite
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, carrying the EchoStar 23 commercial television broadcast satellite into orbit. Video: SpaceX.
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TV broadcast satellite launched aboard Falcon 9 rocket
Updated to add spacecraft status and orbit information. The Falcon 9 rocket streaks downrange in this long exposure photo from atop the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched into a starry moonlit sky Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, making a…
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After delay, SpaceX launches EchoStar satellite – but forgoes rocket landing
The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lights up the night at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A. (SpaceX via YouTube) For the second time in a week, weather worries caused a delay in SpaceX’s launch of the EchoStar 23 communications satellite – but this time, liftoff took place less than a half-hour later than…
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High winds keep Falcon 9 rocket grounded
Updated at 12:15 p.m. EDT (1615 GMT). The countdown clock at the Kennedy Space Center’s press site is seen during the final countdown Tuesday before SpaceX’s scrub. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Rain showers and gloomy clouds blew through NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday evening, but it was high winds that prevented liftoff of a…