Tag: EchoStar
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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…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 launches with TV satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the EchoStar 23 communications satellite. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at approximately 1:15 a.m. EDT (0515 GMT). Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Photos: Falcon 9 booster, minus landing legs and grid fins, poised for launch
A 229-foot-tall (70-meter) SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stood on launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday afternoon on the eve of a scheduled blastoff with the EchoStar 23 television broadcast satellite. The two-stage rocket will fly without the four landing legs and grid fins normally carried on Falcon 9 missions. That’s because…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with EchoStar 23
Updated with 48-hour delay to Thursday. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral early Thursday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the EchoStar 23 communications satellite into orbit 34 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is poised for launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in…
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Commercial TV broadcast satellite ready to ride Falcon 9 rocket
The EchoStar 23 satellite is seen inside SpaceX’s payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral after arriving at the launch base in November. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is expected to transfer its next Falcon 9 rocket to launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday with a direct-to-home television broadcast satellite on-board, setting…
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4K video: Wide-angle view of Falcon 9 hotfire
A wide-angle view of the Space X Falcon 9 rocket test firing at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A on March 9, 2017 during final preparations for it scheduled blastoff with the EchoStar 23 communications satellite. Watch in up to to 4k resolution.
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Falcon 9 rocket performs static fire test
The Falcon 9 rocket fires its engines for a hold-down test Thursday. Credit: SpaceX Held down by heavy-duty restraints, a Falcon 9 rocket fired up its nine Merlin engines for more than three seconds Thursday evening in a key readiness test before launching from Florida with a commercial television broadcast satellite next week. The nine…
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket test-fired ahead of EchoStar 23 launch
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was test-fired at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A on Thursday evening, a few days before its scheduled blastoff with the EchoStar 23 communications satellite. The nine Merlin 1D engines at the base of the booster ignited for more than three seconds at 6 p.m. EST (2300 GMT) Thursday, generating around…
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Live coverage: SpaceX readies next Falcon 9 for liftoff
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the second Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch the EchoStar 23 television broadcast satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Station cargo flight leapfrogs commercial satellite launch on SpaceX manifest
A view of launch pad 39A, with SpaceX’s rocket erector vertical, taken on Jan. 26. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images SpaceX said Sunday that the first Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A, a former shuttle-era complex at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is scheduled to send a Dragon supply ship to…