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Photos: SpaceX successful in nighttime blastoff from Cape Canaveral
Photos from the liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Monday from Cape Canaveral show the 20-story launcher climbing into a starry sky with the SES 12 communications satellite. The two-stage rocket, powered by a reused booster with nine Merlin main engines, lifted off at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral’s…
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Multi-mission telecom craft launched by SpaceX for SES
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Monday with the SES 12 communications satellite. Credit: SpaceX A powerful commercial communications satellite driven by plasma thrusters rode a reused SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster away from Cape Canaveral early Monday, climbing into orbit to connect companies, homes, airplanes and ships across much of the Eastern Hemisphere. Cocooned…
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Video: Falcon 9 soars into space with SES 12
Video credit: SpaceX Watch a replay of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral shortly after midnight Monday with the SES 12 communications satellite. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket took off at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad, and headed east over the Atlantic…
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Video: Falcon 9 joins rising moon in the sky during middle-of-the-night launch
Video credit: Steven Young/Spaceflight Now Flying with a reused first stage booster, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbed into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast early Monday with a commercial communications satellite for the Luxembourg-based operator SES. The Falcon 9 took off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT)…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with SES 12
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Monday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the SES 12 communications satellite into orbit around 32 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 12:29 a.m.…
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Live coverage: SpaceX rocket launches with SES 12 communications satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the SES 12 communications satellite for SES of Luxembourg. 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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SpaceX delays launch to run additional tests on rocket
File photo of a previous Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has delayed the launch of the SES 12 commercial communications satellite from Cape Canaveral until Monday to conduct additional tests on the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage, officials said Thursday. The liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40…
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SpaceX test-fires previously-flown rocket for May 31 launch
A cloud of exhaust rises from SpaceX’s launch pad at Cape Canaveral after Thursday night’s engine firing. Credit: Spaceflight Now The nine Merlin main engines at the base of a recycled Falcon 9 rocket booster ignited Thursday night for several seconds during a pre-flight test-firing on a Cape Canaveral launch pad, clearing a major hurdle…
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Video: Falcon 9 rocket ignites for hold-down test at Cape Canaveral
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ignited its main engines at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Thursday night, clearing a major hurdle before liftoff May 31 with the SES 12 communications satellite. The Falcon 9’s nine Merlin 1D main engines ignited at 9:30 p.m. EDT Thursday (0130 GMT Friday) as clamps held the two-stage rocket firmly…
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New target dates set for next two Falcon 9 launches
The two GRACE-Follow On Earth science satellites are mounted atop five Iridium Next satellites in preparation for liftoff May 22 from California. Credit: Iridium The launch of five commercial Iridium message relay satellites and a pair of U.S.-German orbiting geophysics probes on a Falcon 9 rocket from California has been delayed three days to May…