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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 […]

Scott PowersMarch 31, 2016

The two companies NASA hired to carry astronauts from the United States to the International Space Station won’t be doing so officially until 2018 but are expected to have test flights with humans aboard next year, a top NASA official said Thursday. NASA Chief Financial Officer David Radzanowski told the NASA Advisory Council that the space […]

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 25, 2016

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 24, 2016

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SpaceX scrubbed its planned launch Wednesday of a Falcon 9 rocket with a communications satellite because of high wind at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Tentatively, SpaceX is expected to try again Thursday, with a 6:46 p.m. launch time, though that was not yet confirmed Wednesday evening. The launch is intended to carry a communication […]

Scott PowersFebruary 23, 2016

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 PowersFebruary 8, 2016

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral Feb. 24 to carry an SES television service satellite into orbit the satellite company announced this morning. The time of the launch, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, has not been announced. SES stead SpaceX has Feb. 25 as a backup date […]

Scott PowersJanuary 29, 2016

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. […]

Scott PowersJanuary 28, 2016

NASA expects to delay its next shipment of equipment and supplies to the International Space Station because SpaceX has not yet determined a launch date. After successful return-to-flight launches in December from Cape Canaveral and last week from California, SpaceX had two launches coming up next, but neither has been set yet. That includes the […]

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 […]

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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral with communications satellite

SpaceX launch scrubbed again at Cape Canaveral

SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 rocket launch

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch set for early evening Wednesday

SpaceX launch of SES satellite set for Feb. 24 at Cape Canaveral

NASA preps for next Orbital ATK resupply mission, possibly skipping SpaceX

NASA delaying space station resupply awaiting SpaceX launch plans

SpaceX launches 2nd rocket in its return to flight