Tag: Falcon 9
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Offshore barge landing targeted after next Falcon 9 launch
The first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is pictured after landing at Cape Canaveral following a Dec. 21 launch with 11 satellites. Credit: SpaceX Nearly a month after nailing a landing a rocket landing at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX plans to steer the next flight of a Falcon 9 booster toward a recovery vessel in…
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Offshore barge landing targeted after next Falcon 9 launch
The first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is pictured after landing at Cape Canaveral following a Dec. 21 launch with 11 satellites. Credit: SpaceX Nearly a month after nailing a landing a rocket landing at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX plans to steer the next flight of a Falcon 9 booster toward a recovery vessel in…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 conducts static fire test ahead of Jason-3 mission
SpaceX rolled out its Falcon 9 rocket for a static fire that was conducted on Monday at the company’s west coast launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The Jason-3 mission, scheduled to launch on 17 January 2016, will monitor Earth’s ocean’s surface topography and currents for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as…
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Florida spaceport tallies highest launch rate in more than a decade
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad on May 20, 2015, with the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images Cape Canaveral was the departure point for more space launches in 2015 than in any year since 2003, with 17…
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Florida spaceport tallies highest launch rate in more than a decade
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad on May 20, 2015, with the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane. Credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images Cape Canaveral was the departure point for more space launches in 2015 than in any year since 2003, with 17…
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What’s next for SpaceX’s recovered Falcon 9 booster?
The returned Falcon 9 booster flown Dec. 21 is pictured inside the hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX ground crews at Kennedy Space Center’s Apollo-era launch complex 39A are putting the 156-foot-tall Falcon 9 first stage booster that flew to space and back Dec. 21 through a thorough inspection, setting…
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What’s next for SpaceX’s recovered Falcon 9 booster?
The returned Falcon 9 booster flown Dec. 21 is pictured inside the hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX ground crews at Kennedy Space Center’s Apollo-era launch complex 39A are putting the 156-foot-tall Falcon 9 first stage booster that flew to space and back Dec. 21 through a thorough inspection, setting…
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SpaceX rocket landing applauded, but experts say implications TBD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Photo credit: SpaceX The successful launch and landing by the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Monday was a significant step toward achieving reusability and, eventually, lowering launch costs, but turning that success into operational reality poses a significant challenge for company founder Elon Musk, space…
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From all angles: Up and down with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster
Relive the experience with imagery from Monday night’s blazing blastoff of a Falcon 9 rocket and its historic, dramatic landing at Cape Canaveral. Carrying 11 Orbcomm communications satellites, the Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad at 8:29 p.m. EST Monday (0129 GMT Tuesday). The second stage of the rocket…
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Watch SpaceX recover booster: “The Falcon has landed”
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket booster, the equivalent of a 156-foot-tall flying broomstick, turned around and flew back to Cape Canaveral minutes after blastoff Monday, descending to a smooth landing. The rocket-assisted touchdown at Landing Zone 1, situated just to the north of the tip of Cape Canaveral, was the first time a booster stage of…