Tag: Launch
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches communications satellite for Qatar
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center with Qatar’s Es’hail 2 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Spaceflight Now members can watch a live view of the launch pad. SpaceX’s live video webcast begins around 15 minutes prior to launch, and…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with Es’hail 2
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Es’hail 2 communications satellite into orbit around 32 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is poised for launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:46 p.m. EST…
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Photos: Previously-flown Falcon 9 booster ready for another launch
A Falcon 9 rocket powered by a first stage booster recovered after a launch in July is being readied for another flight Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is standing at pad 39A, the starting point for numerous space shuttle launches and Saturn 5 moonshots, in preparation for liftoff…
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India’s GSLV Mk.3 aces test launch, clearing way for lunar mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 7:30 a.m. EST (1230 GMT) after launch. Credit: ISRO The second orbital test flight of India’s GSLV Mk.3 launcher took off Wednesday, hoisting a high-throughput communications satellite into orbit to connect the county’s remote population and clearing the way for a robotic lunar lander to use the rocket in January. Boosted…
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SpaceX fires Falcon 9 booster on pad 39A, aims for comsat launch Thursday
A plume of exhaust erupts from the flame trench at pad 39A during a hold-down firing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Monday night. Credit: William Harwood/CBS News SpaceX test-fired a Falcon 9 rocket Monday night at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, clearing the way for a launch Thursday with Qatar’s Es’hail 2 communications…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket test-fired at Kennedy Space Center
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Es’hail 2 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Spaceflight Now Members can watch a live view of the launch pad. Become a member and support our coverage.…
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No new date set for Pegasus launch with NASA’s ICON satellite
The Pegasus XL rocket, slung underneath an L-1011 carrier jet, before departure from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday morning for a launch attempt that was later aborted. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux NASA and Northrop Grumman officials have not set a new target date for the launch of the ICON ionospheric research satellite aboard an…
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European weather satellite blasts off from French Guiana
A Soyuz rocket blasts off with Europe’s MetOp-C weather satellite. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – JM Guillon A Russian-built Soyuz rocket launched Tuesday from the Guiana Space Center on the northeastern coast of South America, boosting Europe’s MetOp-C satellite into orbit to benefit weather forecasters worldwide and closing out a generation…
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Timeline for Pegasus launch of ICON satellite
Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket will take about 11 minutes to place NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, satellite into a roughly 357-mile-high (575-kilometer) orbit after an airborne launch off Florida’s east coast. The nearly 53,000-pound (24-metric ton) rocket will drop from the belly of a modified L-1011 carrier plane, named Stargazer, flying on an…
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NASA managers clear Pegasus rocket for launch with ICON satellite
Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 carrier jet, named Stargazer, arrived at Cape Canaveral’s Skid Strip on Oct. 19. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA and Northrop Grumman managers at the Kennedy Space Center decided Tuesday to press ahead with final preparations to launch a NASA scientific research satellite early Wednesday aboard an air-launched Pegasus XL rocket off Florida’s east…