Tag: Falcon 9
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Photos: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on the pad at Cape Canaveral
Crowned with a Japanese telecommunications satellite, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sits atop its Cape Canaveral launch pad hours before its scheduled blastoff Friday. Standing 229 feet (70 meters) tall, the two-stage rocket rolled out of its hangar at the Complex 40 launch pad Thursday and was erected vertical for liftoff with the JCSAT 14 communications…
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Falcon 9 flight timeline with the JCSAT 14 satellite
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral early Friday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the JCSAT 14 communications satellite into orbit 32 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall rocket is poised for launch from Complex 40 at 1:21 a.m. EDT (0521 GMT) Friday at the opening of a 120-minute…
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Stormy weather in Florida delays Falcon 9 launch
Updated with weather forecast. The Falcon 9 rocket slated to launch Japan’s JCSAT 14 communications satellite inside SpaceX’s hangar at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has delayed a planned Falcon 9 launch with a Japanese communications satellite to Friday due to inclement weather on Florida’s Space Coast. The launch window is unchanged, opening at 1:21…
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SpaceX looks to future with new pad, USAF contract, and boost for Falcon
Following a banner week for what was once the new kid on the block, SpaceX has secured a coveted US Air Force launch contract in the same week the company announced a joint venture with NASA to send its Red Dragon human rated spacecraft to Mars in 2018 while also announcing new maximum performance margins…
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Hold-down test firing complete for next SpaceX launch
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket’s static fire test at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX technicians are attaching a Japanese communications satellite to the top of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of a planned launch Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral. The JCSAT 14 communications satellite, made in California by Space…
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SpaceX completes static fire ahead of JCSAT-14 mission
SpaceX has completed a crucial static firing of their Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the upcoming mission to loft the JCSAT-14 satellite for the Tokyo-based SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation. The static fire took place late on Sunday at SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ahead of a planned launch on Thursday, 5 May.…
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Commercial Falcon 9 rocket launch scheduled for next week
File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 rocket launch is set for no earlier than May 5, sources said Friday, with a Japanese television broadcasting satellite heading to orbit from Cape Canaveral. The two-stage booster was scheduled to roll out of SpaceX’s…
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Falcon 9 rocket wins landmark U.S. Air Force launch contract
File photo of a Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch a third-generation GPS navigation satellite for the U.S. military in 2018, the Air Force said Wednesday, breaking a monopoly held by United Launch Alliance since its formation nearly a decade ago. The second satellite in the Air…
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Falcon 9 booster preparing for reuse testing at KSC
The first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9, that successfully helped launch the CRS-8 Dragon to the ISS prior to landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic, has completed its Port Canaveral processing. The stage has now been transported to KSC for a series of static fire tests, with the ultimate goal to clear…
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New views of Falcon 9 landing from on-board SpaceX’s drone ship
SpaceX has released new photos of last week’s thrilling rocket landing aboard a floating drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, showing the 15-story Falcon 9 first stage slowing to a hover just as it touched down on the platform. The first stage booster landed less than nine minutes after launching from Cape Canaveral on Friday…