Tag: Launch
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with Merah Putih
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Merah Putih communications satellite into orbit around 32 minutes later. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is poised for launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 1:18 a.m.…
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SpaceX set to re-fly first Falcon 9 Block 5 booster Tuesday
The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket descends to a landing on SpaceX’s drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” on May 11 after launch from Cape Canaveral. It was the first upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 booster, and the same vehicle is set to re-launch Tuesday. Credit: SpaceX Forecasters expect good weather…
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SpaceX conducts hotfire test for another middle-of-the-night launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Aug. 3 with confirmation the Merah Putih mission will use a previously-flown Falcon 9 booster. Credit: Ken Kremer / kenkremer.com / spaceupclose.com Gearing up for the third Falcon 9 launch in less than two-and-a-half weeks, SpaceX fired up a rocket booster at Cape Canaveral on Thursday ahead of an early morning launch…
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Long March 4B rocket lofts Chinese Earth-observing satellite
A Chinese Long March 4B rocket lifts off Tuesday with the Gaofen 11 Earth observation satellite. Credit: Xinhua A sharp-eyed Chinese Earth-imaging satellite rode a Long March 4B booster into orbit Tuesday, tying the record for the highest number of space launches China has achieved in a single year. The three-stage, liquid-fueled Long March 4B…
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Solar probe moves into launch position at Cape Canaveral
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Aug. 1 with Tory Bruno comments on Delta 4-Heavy. Nestled inside the nose cone of its Delta 4-Heavy launcher, Parker Solar Probe departs its processing facility in Titusville, Florida. Credit: Ken Kremer / kenkremer.com / spaceupclose.com NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, fueled and buttoned up for liftoff Aug. 11 on the first mission…
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Another pair of Chinese navigation satellites successfully launched
A Long March 3B rocket lifted off at 0148 GMT Sunday (9:48 p.m. EDT Saturday) from the Xichang space center in southwestern China with two Beidou navigation satellites. Credit: CALT A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched two satellites Sunday to become the eighth and ninth spacecraft added to the country’s Beidou navigation system so…
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Video: Falcon 9 lifts off with Telstar 19 VANTAGE
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbed away from Cape Canaveral early Sunday, and its first stage booster returned to a drone ship parked in the Atlantic Ocean after sending a heavyweight commercial communications satellite toward orbit for Telesat. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off at 1:50 a.m. EDT (0550 GMT) Sunday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex…
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SpaceX delivers for Telesat with successful early morning launch
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated July 23 with orbital parameters. A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 1:50 a.m. EDT (0550 GMT) Sunday from Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX An upgraded model of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fired into orbit early Sunday from Florida’s Space Coast, hoisting a record-setting 7.8-ton (nearly 7.1-metric ton) communications satellite for Telesat toward…
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Record-setting commercial satellite awaits blastoff from Cape Canaveral
The Telstar 19 VANTAGE communications satellite is tested at SSL’s compact antenna test range. Credit: SSL A huge U.S.-built, Canadian-owned communications satellite weighing 15,600 pounds, the heaviest spacecraft of its kind ever launched, is mounted to a Falcon 9 rocket for liftoff early Sunday from Cape Canaveral on a heavy-lifting mission that previously would have…
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Live coverage: SpaceX launches heavyweight Canadian telecom satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the Telstar 19 VANTAGE communications satellite for the Canadian company Telesat. 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…