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SpaceX rocket readied for space station resupply run
File photo of a Dragon spacecraft on top of a Falcon 9 rocket before a previous mission. Credit: SpaceX Ground teams at the Kennedy Space Center were packing last-minute cargo into a commercial Dragon supply ship Sunday, a day before the automated freighter is set for liftoff on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…
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4K and HD video replays of SpaceX rocket undergoing static fire test at pad 39A
In one of its final preflight tests, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignited at pad 39A in Florida for several seconds Thursday, ramping up to full throttle in an end-to-end checkout of the booster before liftoff next week on a space station resupply flight. The cargo mission is set for launch Monday at 12:31 p.m.…
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SpaceX performs static fire, preps for Monday launch from Florida
A plume of exhaust and steam erupts from pad 39A as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fires its nine Merlin main engines during Thursday’s static fire test. Credit: Spaceflight Now Set to resume a brisk pace of launch activity after a nearly six-week respite, SpaceX test-fired its next Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
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Station-bound instrument to open new chapter in the story of cosmic rays
This mosaic image of Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion, was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Recent research shows that galactic cosmic rays flowing into our solar system originate in clusters like these. Credit: NASA/ESA/Arizona State University Physicists are gearing up to send a re-engineered science instrument originally designed…