Tag: Falcon 9 Flight 15

  • 100th Merlin 1D engine flies on Falcon 9 rocket

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    File photo of a Merlin 1D engine. Credit: SpaceX Depending on how you count it, SpaceX launched its 100th kerosene-fueled Merlin 1D rocket engine on a Falcon 9 rocket Feb. 11, underscoring what it says is an accelerated flight regime for the centerpiece of the company’s propulsion shop. The Falcon 9 rocket uses 10 Merlin…

  • Photos: Falcon 9 soars into space at sunset

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on its 15th flight just before sunset Wednesday, putting on a spectacular sky show en route to space with a NOAA satellite to measure the solar wind. The 224-foot-tall booster launched at 6:03 p.m. EST (2303 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad, pitched east-northeast…

  • Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by high winds aloft

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    The Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Unfavorable high-altitude winds above Cape Canaveral on Tuesday kept a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with a NOAA space weather observatory on the ground another day. The 22-story rocket was filled with rocket-grade kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants, and nothing else…

  • Falcon 9 countdown halted by faulty radar tracker

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    Updated: 10:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 8 A problem with a U.S. Air Force tracking radar kept a Falcon 9 rocket crowned with a NOAA space weather observatory grounded Sunday, forcing a long-delayed mission to stay on Earth at least one more day. The countdown at Cape Canaveral smoothly ticked toward a target launch time…

  • Photos: SpaceX rocket standing on launch pad

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad ahead of a Feb. 8 launch attempt with NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory. The rocket will send the 1,250-pound spacecraft on an escape trajectory toward an operating post nearly a million miles from Earth to detect incoming solar storms. Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight…

  • Storied space weather observatory finally ready for launch

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    The Deep Space Climate Observatory inside a clean room before launch. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky The world’s most distant weather outpost is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launching to a point a million miles from Earth to warn forecasters of solar storms that could disrupt global air…

  • Live coverage: Falcon 9 soars into space with DSCOVR

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.