KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — On Thursday, March 3 at 9:25 a.m. EST, SpaceX launched 47 Starlink broadband satellites from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was SpaceX’s 9th Falcon 9 launch of 2022. SpaceX has launched a total of 2,187 Starlink satellites since February 2018. This was the 11th flight for the Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched GPS III-3, Turksat-5A, […]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket roared off NASA’s historic Pad 39A on Sunday morning, marking a rebirth of a complex that once hosted the launches of Apollo moon ships and space shuttles. The booster lifted off on time at 9:39 a.m. EST carrying a Dragon resupply ship bound for the International Space Station. The Dragon separated from second stage as planned and unfurled its two solar arrays. It will take two […]
Falcon 9 on Launch Pad 39A. (Credit: NASA)
By Steven Siceloff,
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida
NASA’s first cargo resupply mission of 2017 is poised to lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida loaded with almost 5,500 pounds of science experiments, research equipment and supplies bound for the International Space Station and its resident astronauts.
F9/CRS10: A wider-angle shot from the top of the CBS bureau at KSC showing the Falcon 9 atop pad 39A 3.1 miles away pic.twitter.com/sWWZrIjmj2 — William Harwood (@cbs_spacenews) February 10, 2017 SpaceX has rolled out the Falcon 9 booster to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The booster will undergo a test of its first stage engines in preparation for a scheduled Feb. 18 launch. The rocket will […]
NASA’s historic Launch Complex 39A will see its first flight in nearly six years in mid-February when a SpaceX Falcon 9 launches a Dragon resupply ship to the International Space Station. The California-based company announced over the weekend that the launch of the EchoStar 23 communications satellite, set to be the first from the renovated pad, would be delayed until after the CRS-10 Dragon supply flight. SpaceX is leasing the […]
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the OA-6 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41. (Credit: ULA)
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The United States and China led the world in orbital launch attempts in 2016 with 22 apiece. The combined 44 launches made up more than half of the 85 flights conducted around the world.
The astronauts who will train for the first Commercial Crew Program flight tests are Doug Hurley, Eric Boe, Bob Behnken and Sunita “Suni” Williams. (Credit: NASA)
By Steven Siceloff,
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
A year after awarding landmark contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build a new generation of human-rated space systems, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program has made great strides to re-establish America’s capability to launch astronauts to the International Space Station. Both companies are constructing the infrastructure needed to safely launch and operate crew space transportation systems. They also have offered detailed refinements to their designs and begun building the test vehicles that will be put through extreme analysis before their flight test regimens begin.
Falcon Heavy. (Credit: SpaceX)
After a three-year delay, SpaceX plans to fly its Falcon Heavy launch vehicle for the first time next spring, followed quickly by three additional flights of the 28-engine rocket by the end of 2016.
Launch Pad 39A with the space shuttle Endeavour. (Credit: NASA)
The Orlando Sentinel has an update on the battle to control mothballed space shuttle Launch Complex 39A. In a dream match up made in NewSpace heaven, the battle pits billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX against fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, whose bid is supported by United Launch Alliance (ULA), which has made billions launching U.S. defense satellites.