Tag: SpaceX
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Audio: Elon Musk speaks with reporters after Falcon Heavy test launch
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk briefed reporters on the status of the Falcon Heavy test flight, and several of the company’s other projects, shortly after the huge rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon Heavy took off from launch pad 39A at the Florida spaceport at 3:45 p.m. EST…
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SpaceX debuts world’s most powerful rocket, sends Tesla into solar system
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 8:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 7 (0130 GMT on Feb. 8) with updated orbital elements. SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket climbs into the sky from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX Rumbling into the sky from a historic NASA-owned launch pad, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket —…
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Dramatic photos of historic SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch from GeekWire camera 1,200 feet away
Falcon Heavy clears the tower. (GeekWire Photo/Kevin Lisota) [Editor’s Note: This post has been updated with additional pictures, including the one above, retrieved Wednesday from a third camera set up by photographer Kevin Lisota inside the fence at Cape Canaveral, 1,200 feet away from the Falcon Heavy launch pad.] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The maiden voyage…
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4K video: Wide-angle view of Falcon Heavy launch
Watch a 4K video replay of the first Falcon Heavy launch as viewed from the Kennedy Space Center Press Site around 3 miles from pad 39A. The dramatic test flight took off at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT) Tuesday from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the same facility used by…
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Internet users – including Donald Trump – are over the moon about SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket
SpaceX employees cheer at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., after the successful launch of the first Falcon Heavy rocket. (SpaceX via YouTube) SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket didn’t blow up on the launch pad, but it did blow up the internet. More than 2 million people tuned in to the launch of the world’s most…
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Time for SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to fly: Watch live video of the final countdown
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The maiden launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is arguably the biggest thing to hit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center since the retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2011. RELATED: SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy rocket for first time, putting a sports car in space Liftoff was set for 3:45 p.m. ET…
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SpaceX launches its Falcon Heavy rocket for first time, putting a sports car (and Starman) in space
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from its launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s triple-barreled Falcon Heavy rocket rose into space today for the first time on a pillar of flame and clouds of exhaust, blending the serious and silly sides of spaceflight.…
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Elon Musk marvels at Falcon Heavy’s triumph, looks ahead to bigger rocket
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk meets the press at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, says that even he was surprised by how successful the first flight of his company’s Falcon Heavy rocket turned out to be, and that it boosted his confidence about building…
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Video: Falcon Heavy blasts off, boosters land at Cape Canaveral
SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket successfully soared into orbit Tuesday, and its two strap-on boosters came back to Cape Canaveral for an electrifying double-landing punctuated by quadruple sonic booms. The dramatic test flight took off at 3:45 p.m. EST (2045 GMT) Tuesday from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the same…
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First Falcon Heavy launch blends SpaceX style, raw power and the unknown
SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy rocket at pad 39A. Credit: SpaceX The electric sports car shrouded inside the nose of the first Falcon Heavy rocket may conjure notions of a flight of fancy, but SpaceX founder Elon Musk says the powerful new launcher awaiting blastoff Tuesday from Florida’s Space Coast has a lot to prove. The…