Tag: SpaceX
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Dragon spacecraft splashes down with station research specimens
SpaceX released this view of the Dragon spacecraft descending to the Pacific Ocean on Friday. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX-owned Dragon cargo craft left the International Space Station on Friday and flew back to Earth for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean with a dozen mice and more than 3,000 pounds of experiment specimens and…
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SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down, bringing mice and more from space station
SpaceX’s Dragon pulls away from the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA TV) SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean today, carrying more than 3,000 pounds of cargo and science samples back down to Earth from the International Space Station. NASA’s Kate Rubins and Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi worked with the station’s robotic…
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CRS-9 Dragon completes homecoming, concludes successful mission
SpaceX’s CRS-9 Dragon spacecraft departed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, following a highly successful Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the orbital outpost. Known as End Of Mission (EOM) operations, Dragon’s safe return was marked by a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean later in the day. SpaceX CRS-9 EOM: Dragon’s journey into space…
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SpaceX puts historic flown rocket on permanent display
Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News Crews outside the SpaceX’s headquarters in Southern California on Saturday positioned the booster that stuck the first Falcon 9 rocket landing for vertical display, and now the launcher is an unmistakable Space Age trophy visible to passersby on nearby streets and freeways. Workers put the rocket near the southeast corner…
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Another Falcon 9 rocket returns to perch in Port Canaveral
A 156-foot-tall (47-meter) first stage from a Falcon 9 rocket sits at Port Canaveral on Saturday evening. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now The sixth Falcon 9 rocket booster recovered by SpaceX has returned to Port Canaveral after an up-and-down flight Aug. 14 that sent a commercial Japanese broadcasting satellite toward orbit. The 15-story first stage of…
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Space station crew installs a new front door for SpaceX and Boeing spaceships
NASA’s Jeff Williams works on the space station’s International Docking Adapter. (Credit: NASA TV) The International Space Station now has a door that will let crews float in from the commercial space taxis that SpaceX and Boeing are building, thanks to a nearly six-hour spacewalk. NASA spacewalkers Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins installed the Boeing-built door, known as…
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Carbon fiber report whips up interest in SpaceX’s plans for a colony on Mars
An artist’s conception shows a Falcon Heavy rocket lifting off for Mars. (Credit: SpaceX) Is SpaceX planning to buy billions of dollars’ worth of carbon fiber for future Mars-bound spaceships? The answer’s up in the air, but a report to that effect from Japan’s Nikkei Asian Review has set SpaceX’s fans abuzz. The report claims…
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Photos: Falcon 9 climbs away from Cape Canaveral with JCSAT 16
The Falcon 9 rocket’s eighth flight of 2016 took off from Cape Canaveral early Sunday with the Japanese JCSAT 16 communications satellite, setting a new mark for the most launches made by SpaceX in a single year. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket blasted off at 1:26 a.m. EDT (0526 GMT) Sunday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40…
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SpaceX launches second JCSAT mission via Falcon 9
SpaceX launched Japan’s JCSAT-16 communications satellite in the early hours of Sunday via a Falcon 9 rocket, with lift off occurring from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral at the start of a two-hour launch window that opened at 01:26 local time (05:26 UTC). Once again, a return of the first stage to SpaceX’s drone ship was…
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SpaceX launches JCSAT-16 satellite, then lands Falcon 9 rocket at sea
A webcast view shows SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on the oceangoing drone ship known as “Of Course I Still Love You.” (Credit: SpaceX) SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a satellite for a Japanese communication company tonight, and then made a bull’s-eye landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. The two-stage Falcon 9 carried the JCSAT-16 satellite…