Tag: Complex 40

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket closed out a busy 2017 Cape Canaveral launch schedule on Dec. 15 with a successful liftoff on a space station resupply mission. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster, making its second launch, returned to Florida’s Space Coast for an on-target landing. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket lifted off at 10:36:09 a.m. EST…

Watch replays of the launch and landing of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station. The SpaceX commercial launch vehicle lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 10:36am EST (1536 GMT) on December 15, 2017. The rocket’s first stage landed back at the Cape less than eight minutes later.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral Friday. Credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Sandra Joseph A cache of cargo bound for the International Space Station lifted off on a commercial SpaceX launcher Friday, thundering into mostly clear skies over Florida’s Space Coast aboard a reused booster that made a bullseye landing back at Cape…

Video credit: NASA TV Flying with a reused first stage and a recycled Dragon supply ship, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Friday bound for the International Space Station on an unpiloted cargo delivery mission. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) Falcon 9 rocket launched from Complex 40 at 10:36 a.m. EST (1536…

SpaceX’s mission patch for the CRS-13 cargo mission. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has delayed liftoff of its next cargo ship bound for the International Space Station until Friday, setting up a one-shot attempt to launch the commercial supply carrier from Cape Canaveral before a potential slip to late December due to high solar angles in orbit.…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 10 p.m. EST on Dec. 11 with one-day launch delay. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, sporting markings from the first stage’s first flight in June, stands poised for launch from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Tuesday. Credit: SpaceX Ready to double its Florida launch capacity with two pads, SpaceX is preparing…