Tag: Complex 40
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Hefty Hispasat satellite rides SpaceX rocket into orbit
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) with orbit details. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Tuesday. Credit: SpaceX A Spanish-owned, U.S.-built commercial communications satellite climbed into orbit early Tuesday from Cape Canaveral on the 50th flight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launching on…
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Live coverage: Hispasat communications lifts off on Falcon 9 rocket
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite for Hispasat of Madrid, Spain. 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.
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with Hispasat 30W-6
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Hispasat 30W-6 communications satellite into orbit around 33 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 12:33 a.m.…
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SpaceX launch with Spanish satellite planned for early Tuesday
SpaceX aims to launch its next mission, the 50th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, just after midnight Tuesday from Cape Canaveral with a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat. The two-hour launch window opens at 12:33 a.m. EST (0533 GMT). The Hispasat 30W-6 telecom craft will ride a 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket from the…
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Atlas 5 launch on track for Thursday, SpaceX mission expected to slip
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT), 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT), 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) and 8:30 p.m. EST Tuesday (0130 GMT Wednesday). File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is set to roll to…
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SpaceX postpones Falcon 9 launch over payload fairing concerns
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX officials have postponed the launch of a Spanish-owned telecommunications satellite from Cape Canaveral planned for this weekend to conduct additional testing on the Falcon 9’s payload fairing pressurization system, the company announced Saturday. SpaceX did not set a…
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SpaceX fires up Falcon 9 rocket for weekend launch from Florida
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Feb. 22 with weather forecast. A view of the Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Wednesday, awaiting the attachment of the Hispasat 30W-6 satellite for launch Sunday. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now A Falcon 9 rocket booked to launch a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat, a Madrid-based telecom company,…
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Photos: Falcon 9 soars into space with GovSat 1
SpaceX’s second Falcon 9 flight of the year lifted off Jan. 31 from Cape Canaveral with GovSat 1, a U.S.-built satellite funded by SES and the government of Luxembourg to provide secure communications for military and civil defense authorities. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 4:25…
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Video: Replay of the launch of GovSat 1 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket
Video credit: SpaceX The GovSat 1 communications satellite for SES and the government of Luxembourg lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 4:25 p.m. EST (2125 GMT) Wednesday. This video shows the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket carrying GovSat 1 climbing to the east from Cape Canaveral, then shedding its first stage…
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SpaceX rocket flies on 60th anniversary of first U.S. satellite launch
A Falcon 9 rocket takes off Wednesday with the GovSat 1 satellite. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher boosted a 4.7-ton military-grade communications satellite for SES and the Luxembourg government toward a perch 22,300 miles over the equator following a spectacular late afternoon liftoff Tuesday from Florida’s Space Coast, clearing the last mission off…