Scott PowersAugust 14, 2020
4min500
Three American astronauts and one Japanese astronaut will be on board.
Tag: Falcon 9 rocket
Scott PowersAugust 14, 2020Scott PowersMay 1, 2020
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This is a high-priority mission for the United States of America.
Scott PowersMay 25, 2016
3min276
Cape Canaveral’s launch manifest is filling fast for this summer with announcements of two more launches, including of one using America’s most powerful rocket, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy. ULA announced it will launch a Delta IV Heavy rocket, the world’s most powerful space vehicle now in use, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on […]
Scott PowersMay 23, 2016
1min182
SpaceX has established a firm rocket launch time and date for its next Falcon 9 on Thursday afternoon. The rocket is set to blast off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 5:40 p.m. Thursday to carry a private, Asian telecommunications satellite into orbit. The payload will be a Thai satellite, the Thaicom 8, which will […]
Scott PowersFebruary 25, 2016
1min194
For the second straight evening, SpaceX’s attempts to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base was aborted Thursday, this time reportedly due to a technical problem. The launch scrub was announced literally in the last minute of the countdown Thursday. There were unconfirmed reports that the SpaceX launch control center detected […]
Scott PowersFebruary 23, 2016
2min195
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 29, 2016
2min282
NASA has announced a launch date for the next commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, but the mission is the next one planned for Orbital ATK to fly, not the SpaceX mission that was expected to come first. NASA is preparing for an early-morning, March 10 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. […]