Tag: Complex 40
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Commercial Falcon 9 rocket launch scheduled for next week
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 rocket launch is set for no earlier than May 5, sources said Friday, with a Japanese television broadcasting satellite heading to orbit from Cape Canaveral. The two-stage booster was scheduled to roll out of SpaceX’s…
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Photos: SpaceX cargo mission prepared for launch
SpaceX’s eighth operational cargo mission to the International Space Station is set for liftoff with nearly 3.5 tons of research investigations, crew provisions and an experimental expandable habitat for the International Space Station. Launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for Friday at 4:43 p.m. EDT (2043 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch…
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Video: Launch camera replays from Friday’s Falcon 9 blastoff
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket’s flight from liftoff to orbit
This video replay shows the Falcon 9 rocket’s flight from liftoff until deployment of the Dragon supply ship, including the dramatic touchdown on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The rocket took off at 4:43 p.m. EDT (2043 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Email the author. Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter:…
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SpaceX ready to return to the space station
A Falcon 9 rocket sits on its launch pad this week awaiting liftoff Friday at 2043 GMT (4:43 p.m. EDT). Credit: SpaceX Ground crews loaded time-critical experiments, including 20 mice to help scientists study muscle atrophy, into SpaceX’s commercial Dragon cargo capsule Thursday, a day before a launch planned from Cape Canaveral toward the International…
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Mostly clear skies predicted for Friday’s SpaceX launch
A Falcon 9 rocket sits on its launch pad this week awaiting liftoff Friday at 2043 GMT (4:43 p.m. EDT). Credit: SpaceX Mostly clear skies and brisk westerly winds are forecast at launch time Friday afternoon for SpaceX’s first resupply mission to the International Space Station in nearly a year. There is a 90 percent…
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SpaceX adds abort function for Dragon cargo flights
The Dragon spaceship set for liftoff Friday is pictured during launch preparations. Credit: SpaceX Taking a lesson from a launch failure last June, SpaceX wrote coded commands for future Dragon cargo capsules to deploy their parachutes for an emergency landing in the event of rocket explosions, starting with Friday’s resupply flight to the International Space…
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Timeline for the Falcon 9 rocket’s 23rd flight
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will go from Cape Canaveral to low Earth orbit in 10 minutes Friday with a Dragon capsule heading for the International Space Station carrying nearly 7,000 pounds of supplies and experiments. Liftoff is set for 2043:32 GMT (4:43:32 p.m. EDT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. It will be…
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Static fire complete in run-up to launch of SpaceX supply ship
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is pictured inside the hangar at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad before rollout leading up to Tuesday’s static fire test. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX ran a Falcon 9 rocket through a customary preflight checkout Tuesday, filling it with super-cold propellants and firing its nine Merlin first stage engines in preparation for…
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SpaceX hopes to raise launch tempo after space station flight
File photo of a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is targeting April 8 for the launch of its first resupply run to the International Space Station in nearly a year, a mission that the company hopes will mark the start of a rapid-fire launch manifest full of payloads waiting to fly. The early…