Tag: Falcon 9
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Flown Falcon 9 booster hoisted off landing platform
SpaceX rocket technicians offloaded the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket from its landing platform Tuesday, beginning a pioneering test campaign to verify its readiness for another launch later this year. The 15-story booster arrived at Port Canaveral, a few miles south of the Falcon 9 launch site, around 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT)…
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Falcon 9 first stage sails into Port Canaveral atop ASDS – ahead of big plans
The Falcon 9 first stage that successfully landed on the deck of the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) barge on Friday sailed into Port Canaveral early on Tuesday. Riding atop “Of Course I Still Love You” the stage is hoping to conduct around ten static test fires ahead of SpaceX’s next reusability milestone of launching the flown…
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket returns to port
Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Riding into port aboard a floating platform before dawn, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket booster arrived back at Cape Canaveral early Tuesday after sticking a historic landing at sea last week, kicking off a series of inspections and tests before engineers ready it for launch again. A small crowd of…
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Photos of the Falcon 9’s Friday afternoon flight
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on Friday afternoon, sending a Dragon cargo freighter on the way to the International Space Station as the launcher’s first stage booster returned to Earth aboard a floating platform. The landing is a key advance for SpaceX’s rocket reusability initiative. The 213-foot-tall rocket blasted off from…
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Video: Press conference following Falcon launch and landing
Kirk Shireman, NASA’s manager of the International Space Station Program, SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX vice president of flight reliability, hold the post-launch press conference from Kennedy Space Center on April 8.
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Video: SpaceX lands rocket on drone ship for first time
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster steered toward a first-ever landing on a drone ship floating 185 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean minutes after blasting off from Florida with a space station cargo ship. The 156-foot-tall booster, slowed by one of its Merlin rocket engines, descended to the football field-sized vessel about 8…
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Photos: SpaceX cargo mission prepared for launch
SpaceX’s eighth operational cargo mission to the International Space Station is set for liftoff with nearly 3.5 tons of research investigations, crew provisions and an experimental expandable habitat for the International Space Station. Launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for Friday at 4:43 p.m. EDT (2043 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch…
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Live coverage: Space station robot arm captures Dragon supply ship
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with SpaceX’s eighth operational Dragon resupply flight to the International Space Station. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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SpaceX lands rocket on ocean-going drone ship
A split-screen view during SpaceX’s launch webcast showed the Falcon 9 first stage booster after touchdown on the drone ship, while the Dragon cargo capsule is deployed from the Falcon 9’s upper stage in orbit. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster descended under engine power to a floating landing platform in the Atlantic…
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Video: Launch camera replays from Friday’s Falcon 9 blastoff
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