By Mike Killian, on October 3rd, 2020
The Sentinel-6A spacecraft in a clean room at Germany’s IABG space test center, prior to being shipped to Vandenberg AFB recently for launch on Nov 10, 2020. Photo: ESA
NASA and ESA’s next Earth Observing science mission aims to better understand sea level rise and how it changes over time, as coastal communities around […]
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By Mike Killian, on August 29th, 2020
Falcon 9 launch off SLC-40. Photo: Jeff Seibert / AmericaSpace
United Launch Alliance scrubbed their latest launch attempt with NROL-44 for a second time overnight, and will now stand down for the next week, giving SpaceX the eastern range to launch their next batch of Starlinks from Kennedy Space Center LC-39A at 10:12 a.m. […]
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By Ben Evans, on August 6th, 2019
AMOS-17 headed to orbit atop a 3x used Falcon 9 rocket from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL on 6 August 2019. Photo: SpaceX
Shortly before sunset Tuesday, 6 August, a fond farewell was paid to one of few rockets in history to have flown as many as three times. SpaceX’s B1047 first-stage […]
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By Ben Evans, on August 6th, 2019
Falcon 9 rocket ‘B-1047’ stands ready for its third and final launch 6 Aug 2019, ahead of its first launch attempt to deliver the AMOS-17 satellite to orbit tonight. Photo: SpaceX
UPDATE 5:00pm EDT – SpaceX is now targeting a new T-0 of 7:23 p.m. EDT, 23:23 UTC for launch of AMOS-17, team […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 25th, 2019
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 25, 2019, at 6:01 p.m. for the company’s 18th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. Photo credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace.com
The International Space Station (ISS) is shaping up […]
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By Ben Evans, on July 23rd, 2019
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands ready for lift off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida for the company’s 18th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-18) mission to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled for 25 July 2019 at 6:01pm Eastern time. Photo: NASA
First launch attempt scrubbed for […]
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By Mike Killian, on February 22nd, 2019
The SpaceX ‘Crew Dragon’ atop its Falcon 9 rocket on pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo Credit: SpaceX
It has been nearly a month since SpaceX conducted a test fire of the Falcon 9 rocket which will launch the first Crew Dragon, and today’s NASA Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy Space […]
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By Mike Killian, on February 22nd, 2019
A SpaceX Crew Dragon test article launches on a Pad Abort Test from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station SLC-40, Florida. Photo Credit: John Studwell / AmericaSpace
The Falcon 9 rocket which launched last night’s SpaceX mission performed beautifully on its third flight, delivering Indonesia’s PSN-6 satellite “Nusantara Satu” to orbit, along with a U.S. […]
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By Ben Evans, on February 20th, 2019
File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch off SLC-40. Photo Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace
SpaceX is scheduled to launch their first Florida mission of 2019 on Thursday evening, targeting liftoff from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with their second three-times-used Falcon 9 booster at 8:45 p.m. […]
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By Mike Killian, on December 6th, 2018
A recovery boat tows in SpaceX’s CRS-16 Falcon 9 rocket, which launched a Cargo dragon to the International Space Station for NASA a couple days prior but missed its landing pad, instead ditching offshore. Photo: Jeff Seibert / AmericaSpace
ORIGINAL REPORT Dec 5, 2018: While Dragon CRS-16 heads to a Saturday rendezvous with […]
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