NASA’s Perseverance rover has met its giant Atlas V booster at last, as it prepares for 30 July launch and multi-month voyage to Mars. […]
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The B1051 core launches its maiden mission in March 2019 to deliver SpaceX’s Demo-1 Crew Dragon to the International Space Station (ISS). Photo Credit: Alan Walters/AmericaSpace Only days after seeing off its first mission for the U.S. Space Force, SpaceX again stands primed to conduct as many as four Falcon 9 flights in July, […] 
Laden with GPS III-03, the Falcon 9 powers into a hot Florida afternoon on its third mission of June 2020. Photo: Jeff Seibert / AmericaSpace SpaceX has successfully launched and, for the first time, recovered a Falcon 9 booster following a National Security Space Launch (NSSL) mission. The never-before-used B1060 core, teamed with a […] 
The U.S. Air Force’s first GPS III satellite heads to orbit atop SpaceX’s Upgraded Falcon 9 in December 2018. Photo Credit: Alan Walters/AmericaSpace Hopes of seeing four Falcon 9 rockets launch within a single calendar month have evaporated, following SpaceX’s decision to postpone its Starlink/BlackSky rideshare flight by a few days. This puts a […] 
The scheduled 20 July launch of NASA’s Perseverance rover will also mark the seventh flight of the Atlas V 541 and its second mission to Mars. Photo Credit: ULA Noticeably lacking its Mars-bound payload, the giant Atlas V assigned to loft NASA’s Perseverance rover towards the Red Planet on 20 July has wrapped […] 
The ULA Atlas V 541 rocket saw its maiden launch in November 2011, delivering NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover to the Red Planet. NASA’s next Mars Rover, Perseverance, is scheduled to launch on the same rocket as soon as July 20, 2020. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.com Less than a month since […] 
The Falcon 9 v1.0, which completed its maiden voyage 10 years ago today, went on to complete five missions by September 2013. It was the forerunner of the reusable, versatile boosters of today. Photo Credit: SpaceX Watching the grainy footage makes it look older and you might be forgiven for thinking SpaceX’s Falcon 9 […] 
SpaceX’s B1049 powers into the night, setting a new record of only four days between two East Coast launches of the Falcon 9. Photo Credit: SpaceX The smoke, noise and euphoria of last Saturday’s spectacular launch of Dragon Endeavour and her crew—NASA veterans Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken—had barely settled when another Falcon 9 […] 
B1049 launches a 60-strong batch of Starlink satellites on its most recent mission in January, the first U.S. spaceflight of the 2020s. Photo Credit: Mike Killian/AmericaSpace SpaceX’s foot is firmly on the gas as the organization prepares for its ninth launch of 2020 and its second in less than a week. Following the triumphant […] 
SpaceX’s next launch promises to be its most momentous so far: the launch of humans into space aboard a U.S. spacecraft, atop a U.S. rocket, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since July 2011. Photo Credit: NASA Poor weather at the start of the weekend and uncertainty about Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship […] |
 Next Launch Starlink-9 on a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC,FL scheduled for: 11 Jul 20 at 14:54 GMT 11 Jul 20 at 10:54am Eastern 
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