Tag: Launch
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Falcon 9 launch scheduled for Monday after hold-down engine firing
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, without its payload, is test-fired Thursday at pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX The launch of a commercial Bulgarian television broadcast satellite from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is set for Monday after SpaceX ran through a mock countdown Thursday and test-fired a previously-flown…
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Video: SpaceX’s second reused Falcon 9 rocket test-fired in Florida
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine Merlin main engines for several seconds Thursday at launch pad 39A in Florida, moving the previously-flown booster closer to a scheduled blastoff Monday with a Bulgarian communications satellite. The nine Merlin 1D first stage engines fired at 6:25 p.m. EDT (2225 GMT) after SpaceX’s launch team, stationed in…
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Boeing, DARPA to base XS-1 spaceplane at Cape Canaveral
Artist’s concept of the XS-1 spaceplane before releasing its expendable upper stage. Credit: Boeing A reusable suborbital spaceplane the size of a business jet being developed by Boeing and the Defense Department’s research and development arm could be launching and landing at Cape Canaveral in 2020, officials said after the defense contractor won a competition…
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Photos: Russian Proton rocket blasts off with EchoStar 21
Look back on last week’s launch of a Russian Proton rocket from Kazakhstan with the EchoStar 21 communications satellite, a commercial craft designed to beam broadband connectivity to customers across Europe. The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) rocket took off at 0345 GMT on June 8 (11:45 p.m. EDT on June 7) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan,…
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SpaceX aims to restore damaged launch pad to service by end of summer
File photo of the damaged strongback tower at Complex 40 shortly after the Sept. 1 Falcon 9 rocket explosion. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Construction crews at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad are busily repairing and upgrading the facility after a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded there last year, with the pad’s return to service…
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Photos: India’s GSLV Mk.3 debuts with on-target test flight
India’s new GSLV Mk.3 launcher delivered to orbit the GSAT 19 communications satellite Monday, and these photos show the rocket lifting off from a launch pad on the eastern Indian coastline powered by two side-mounted solid rocket boosters. The GSLV Mk.3 took off at 1158 GMT (7:58 a.m. EDT) Monday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center,…
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Video: Proton rocket returns to service with launch of EchoStar 21
Video credit: Roscosmos/TsENKI A Proton rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the EchoStar 21 communications satellite Thursday, the heaviest commercial payload ever flown aboard a Russian booster. The launcher lifted off from Pad 24 at Complex 81 at the historic spaceport at 0345:47 GMT Thursday (11:45:47 p.m. EDT Wednesday) to begin a…
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Live coverage: New Indian launcher succeeds on maiden orbital test flight
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a GSLV Mk.3 rocket from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center with the GSAT 19 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. ISRO’s live video stream begins at 1125 GMT (7:25 a.m. EDT).
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India’s launcher fleet gets an upgrade with successful test flight
A powerful new launch vehicle climbed into space from India’s east coast Monday, delivering a multi-beam communications satellite to orbit on its first full-up test flight, setting marks for the heaviest rocket and spacecraft ever launched from India. The upgraded Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, named GSLV MK.3, lifted off at 1158 GMT (7:58 a.m. EDT)…
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Watch a replay of India’s most powerful launcher heading into orbit
Video credit: ISRO India’s GSLV Mk.3 rocket took off Monday on its first full-scale orbital test flight, delivering the GSAT 19 communications satellite to an on-target orbit after successfully demonstrating new solid rocket boosters, a twin-engine core stage and an upgraded cryogenic upper stage engine. The 142-foot-tall (43-meter) rocket lifted off from India’s east coast…