Tag: Falcon 9

  • Photos: Falcon 9 awaits liftoff

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is awaiting liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad as soon as Tuesday after three scrubs caused by propellant loading problems and a boat that strayed into restricted waters in the Atlantic Ocean. These photos from the past few days show the 229-foot-tall rocket on the launch pad, crowned by…

  • Falcon 9 grounded again after last-second abort

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    The Falcon 9 rocket’s nine first stage engines start up moments before the countdown aborted Sunday. Credit: SpaceX A commercial communications satellite stayed on Earth after a last-second launch abort Sunday, the third time in five days that SpaceX has scrubbed the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. Sunday’s countdown got closer…

  • Telesat launch agreements awarded to SpaceX

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    Updated Feb. 29 with confirmation Telstar 18V and 19V will launch on Falcon 9s. File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch. Credit: SpaceX The Canadian telecom satellite operator Telesat plans to launch two multipurpose communications spacecraft aboard SpaceX Falcon rockets in 2018, the company disclosed this week in a quarterly earnings announcement. A…

  • SpaceX launch aborted in final minutes

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    SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch Thursday aborted less than two minutes before liftoff. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX kept an upgraded Falcon 9 rocket on the ground Thursday after running into a problem loading super-cold liquid propellants into the launcher’s fuel tanks, postponing blastoff of a commercial communications satellite for the second day in a row. The California-based…

  • Commercial Falcon 9 launch delayed to Thursday

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    Credit: SpaceX SpaceX called off the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday to make sure the booster’s supply of super-chilled cryogenic liquid oxygen is cold enough to support the delivery of the 5.8-ton SES 9 commercial communications satellite to an orbit nearly 25,000 miles above Earth. The launch company said…

  • Live coverage: SpaceX finally launches Falcon 9 rocket

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the SES 9 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at 6:25 p.m. EST (2325 GMT).

  • Falcon 9 rocket to give SES 9 telecom satellite an extra boost

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    The Falcon 9 rocket stands at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad with the SES 9 satellite. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX and SES, owner of a 5.8-ton commercial telecom satellite poised for launch from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, struck a deal to tweak the Falcon 9 rocket’s standard launch profile to give the SES 9 spacecraft…

  • SES eager to fly satellite aboard used Falcon 9 rocket

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    The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket stands on its landing pad at Cape Canaveral after a successful touchdown following a Dec. 21 launch with 11 Orbcomm communications satellites. Credit: SpaceX In one of the strongest public endorsements of SpaceX’s initiative to put a reusable launcher on the commercial market, a top official from…

  • Flight timeline for Falcon 9’s launch of SES 9

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    Updated after scrubs. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Friday evening, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the SES 9 television broadcast satellite into orbit 31 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall rocket is poised for launch from Complex 40 at 6:35 p.m. EST (2335 GMT) Friday at…

  • Falcon 9 clears static fire test before launch this week

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    The Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin 1D first stage engines fired Monday while the booster was on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s launch team in Cape Canaveral fueled a Falcon 9 rocket with super-chilled liquid propellants and briefly fired the first stage’s nine Merlin engines Monday in a customary preflight test…