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Scott PowersJune 2, 2016

The upcoming launch of a Delta IV Heavy rocket with a spy satellite is back on. United Launch Alliance announced Thursday the launch originally scheduled for this Saturday, then delayed, has been reset for June 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket will carry a satellite into orbit for the U.S. National Reconnaissance […]

Scott PowersMay 6, 2016

After four consecutive tumbles SpaceX is now on a two-landing winning streak to successfully bring back rockets launched from Cape Canaveral. In the wee hours Friday SpaceX blasted off a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and sent a private communications satellite into orbit. A few minutes after the launch, the company […]

Scott PowersMarch 17, 2016

When NASA officials refer to their singular human-spaceflight program “Journey To Mars,” they’re not talking about the 800 to 1,000 days it will take for astronauts to get there and back. At Kennedy Space Center, indeed all of Cape Canaveral, and worldwide for that matter, spaceflight and human-spaceflight facilities and organizations are incubating private, commercial-space programs […]

Scott PowersMarch 4, 2016

The fifth try was a charm. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Friday evening carrying an SES communications satellite to orbit, where it will provide commercial services to southern Asia. The launch, at 6:35 p.m., came on the fifth launch date SpaceX set in the past week and […]

Scott PowersFebruary 23, 2016

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SpaceX is hoping for weather to hold out at Cape Canaveral long enough Wednesday to finally launch a Falcon 9 rocket to carry an SES communications satellite into orbit. Launch time, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, is set for 6:46 pm, almost a half-hour after sunset. The mission would take the SES-9 satellite, originally […]

Scott PowersJanuary 17, 2016

SpaceX launched its second rocket since its recovery from a launch disaster last summer as a Falcon 9 carrying an ocean-monitoring satellite blasted off cleanly through a foggy Sunday afternoon at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The flawless lift-off at 1:42 p.m. Eastern time reaffirms that SpaceX, which launches most of its rockets from Cape […]

Drew WilsonOctober 2, 2015

Gov. Rick Scott highlighted a state-commissioned report Friday that shows the defense industry had a $79.8 billion impact on the Florida economy last year. Commissioned by Enterprise Florida and CareerSource Florida, the report ranks defense as the fourth-largest industry in the state behind only agriculture, health care and tourism. The $79.8 billion figure accounts for […]

Drew WilsonSeptember 15, 2015

A deal between Florida and a private space flight company owned by the CEO of Amazon promises to pump 330 new jobs and $200 million in investments into the Space Coast. Gov. Rick Scott announced the deal Tuesday alongside Amazon head Jeff Bezos, who said Florida beat out about a dozen other states vying for […]

Tag: Cape Canaveral

Delta IV Heavy rocket launch reset for June 9

SpaceX launches satellite into space and then sticks rocket landing again

NASA’s ‘Journey To Mars’ begins with a thousand steps

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral with communications satellite

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch set for early evening Wednesday

SpaceX launches 2nd rocket in its return to flight

Report: Defense industry had $79.8B impact in Florida, despite decline in Fed funding

New Blue Origin launch facility to create 330 Brevard County jobs, governor says