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Scott PowersMarch 29, 2017

SpaceX is set to launch a recycled Falcon 9 rocket Thursday afternoon, marking the first time a rocket used once to put a spacecraft into orbit has been landed, refurbished and put on the launch pad to be used again. SpaceX’s first customer for such a rocket, the Luxembourg-based SES satellite company, prefers the term […]

Scott PowersFebruary 19, 2017

Kennedy Space Center is back in the rocket-launching business – and this time it’s really a business. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off into space from historic Launch Complex 39A Sunday morning, the first launch from Kennedy since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. This was a business launch in almost every sense, except […]

Scott PowersFebruary 18, 2017

SpaceX scrubbed its debut launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A Saturday morning because of uncertainty regarding readings from the second-stage thruster control system. The company was saying little else Saturday. The issue was noted about an hour before launch but the countdown was allowed to proceed to […]

Scott PowersFebruary 17, 2017

As SpaceX prepares to launch its first rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s historic Launch Complex 39A Saturday – marking the first launch from Kennedy in more than five years – company president Gwynne Shotwell said she was more nervous than ever. “I never get nervous speaking in front of a crowd and my heart is […]

Scott PowersJanuary 19, 2017

Kennedy Space Center is getting back in the rocket business, now that SpaceX is back in business. SpaceX is planning to launch its next rockets in the next few weeks from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A . They will be the first rockets to blast off from Kennedy Space Center since the space shuttle program was […]

Scott PowersJanuary 3, 2017

Declaring that the glitch that blew up its last rocket while sitting on the launch pad back in September has been identified and fixed, SpaceX announced it is ready to launch again – Sunday, from California. SpaceX said it plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Station. to carry a French Iridium […]

Scott PowersJuly 18, 2016

Shortly after midnight Monday a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, lifting a spacecraft full of supplies, including a new spacecraft docking hatch for the International Space Station. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:45 a.m. with almost 5,000 pounds of cargo, including scientific supplies to […]

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 PowersMay 4, 2016

UPDATE (11:30 a.m.): According to a press release, due to inclement weather, the JCSAT-14 launch is now scheduled for no earlier than 1:21 a.m. EDT on Friday, May 6. There is two-hour launch window. Original story: A SpaceX Falcon 9 is prepared to launch in the wee hours of Thursday morning to carry a private […]

Scott PowersApril 7, 2016

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch planned for Friday afternoon is aimed at the International Space Station, but much of the science and technology inside its Dragon capsule is aimed at taking humans far deeper into space one day The launch is scheduled for 4:43 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission is to […]

Tag: Falcon 9

SpaceX used – er, ‘flight-tested’ – rocket set to launch

Kennedy Space Center back in launch business — this time for business

SpaceX scrubs Saturday launch, retry Sunday

‘Heart pounding’ as SpaceX prepares to reopen Kennedy launch pad

SpaceX to reopen legendary Kennedy launch site

SpaceX shooting to launch again on Sunday, in California

SpaceX cargo shipment headed to space station

SpaceX launches satellite into space and then sticks rocket landing again

SpaceX Falcon 9 looking for weather window Friday morning for launch

SpaceX launch to provide space station with long-term spaceflight survival research