Tag: SpaceX
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Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by high winds aloft
The Falcon 9 rocket on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Unfavorable high-altitude winds above Cape Canaveral on Tuesday kept a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with a NOAA space weather observatory on the ground another day. The 22-story rocket was filled with rocket-grade kerosene and liquid oxygen propellants, and nothing else…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launches the DSCOVR spacecraft
Nearly fifteen years after its originally planned launch date, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission has set sail atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday at 18:03 local time. A scrub on Sunday’s was followed by unacceptable Upper Level winds ahead of the second attempt on Tuesday.…
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SpaceX: Latest Falcon 9 landing attempt thwarted by 3-story waves in Atlantic
The “autonomous spaceport drone ship” that SpaceX built to recover the Falcon 9 first stage. After multiple scrubs in recent days, SpaceX is counting down again for the launch of its first deep-space mission this afternoon, sending the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) into space to monitor solar storms. However, the company won’t be attempting to…
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SpaceX plans a busy day Tuesday
File photo of a SpaceX Dragon supply ship at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Tuesday is shaping up to be a busy day for SpaceX, with the liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a NOAA space weather satellite, an experimental booster flyback maneuver to advance reusable launch technologies, and the splashdown of a…
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Falcon 9 countdown halted by faulty radar tracker
Updated: 10:30 p.m. EST on Feb. 8 A problem with a U.S. Air Force tracking radar kept a Falcon 9 rocket crowned with a NOAA space weather observatory grounded Sunday, forcing a long-delayed mission to stay on Earth at least one more day. The countdown at Cape Canaveral smoothly ticked toward a target launch time…
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SpaceX CRS-5 Dragon returns home via Pacific splashdown
SpaceX’s CRS-5 Dragon spacecraft departed the International Space Station (ISS) ahead of a return to Earth on Tuesday. The EOM (End Of Mission) events climaxed with a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at around 7:44 pm Eastern, concluding another successful mission for the commercial resupply spacecraft. CRS-5 Dragon – EOM: (*CLICK HERE FOR FULL…
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Storied space weather observatory finally ready for launch
The Deep Space Climate Observatory inside a clean room before launch. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky The world’s most distant weather outpost is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launching to a point a million miles from Earth to warn forecasters of solar storms that could disrupt global air…
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New challenges await SpaceX’s next rocket landing attempt
A view of SpaceX’s rocket landing ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: SpaceX via Elon Musk A rocket recovery team positioned off Florida’s East Coast is standing by for liftoff Sunday of a Falcon 9 launcher with a space weather satellite, but the demanding trajectory of the flight adds more unknowns to the company’s dicey…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 soars into space with DSCOVR
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.