Tag: Falcon 9 Flight 18
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Throttle valve blamed for Falcon 9’s unsuccessful landing
SpaceX engineers have narrowed the cause of last week’s unsuccessful landing of a Falcon 9 rocket booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean on a commanding issue with an engine throttle valve, according to Elon Musk, the company’s founder and chief executive. Musk posted the update on Twitter late Saturday, and he confirmed the…
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Photos: SpaceX’s debris-strewn landing barge back in port
This image, shared with Spaceflight Now by Twitter user @petr_bourdais, was posted anonymously on Reddit. Returning to port late Thursday under the cover of darkness, SpaceX’s rocket recovery platform has moored at a dock in Jacksonville, Florida, for unloading of charred debris from Tuesday’s crash landing of a Falcon 9 booster. The 14-story booster was…
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Photos: Tuesday’s SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral
A sun-splashed Florida afternoon was the setting for Tuesday’s liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket, which fired its nine-engine booster stage and climbed into space with a commercial cargo spacecraft en route to the International Space Station. Photo credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.
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Video: SpaceX rocket booster crash lands on barge
A Falcon 9 rocket booster — under the power of a single Merlin 1D engine — descends toward a specially-outfitted ocean landing platform off Florida’s East Coast on Tuesday in a brief video clip released by SpaceX. The rocket tipped over moments after touching down on the barge, which was parked in the Atlantic Ocean…
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Images from Falcon 9’s launch and landing
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, powering a commercial Dragon cargo ship into orbit while trying a dicey descent maneuver to return to landing on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX says the booster touched down hard and tipped over after landing. Photo credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now Photo credit:…
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Falcon 9 successfully launches, descends to off-balance landing
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral at 4:10 p.m. EDT (2010 GMT). Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with a 2.2-ton package of supplies and experiments for the International Space Station on Tuesday, but the booster toppled over after descending to a barge parked in the…
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SpaceX swaps order of next two Falcon 9 launches
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral before a liftoff in April 2014. Credit: NASA/Glenn Benson Confronted with pesky problems in the Falcon 9 rocket’s helium pressurization system, SpaceX has shuffled the order of the next two launches, choosing to go ahead with the liftoff…