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Falcon Heavy to Lift First Lunar Gateway Elements NET May 2024, NASA Announces
@SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch the first elements of the lunar-orbiting Gateway no sooner than May 2024, NASA announced Tuesday. More
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SpaceX Delivers Starlinks, SkySats to Orbit, as Falcon 9 Sets New Records
@SpaceX & @PlanetLabs lofted 61 satellites to orbit on Wednesday morning, atop the first six-times-flown #Falcon9 rocket. More
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Falcon Heavy Delivers STP-2 on Spectacular First ‘Night Shift’ Launch
The world’s most powerful in-service launch vehicle roared aloft for its third mission overnight, delivering no fewer than 24 payloads for U.S. government, military and civilian customers into several different orbital locations. SpaceX’s triple-cored Falcon Heavy—whose 27 Merlin 1D+ first-stage engines generate some 5.1 million pounds (2.3 million kg) of propulsive yield at liftoff, took […] More
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Watch Falcon Heavy Fly Its First Night Launch & DOD Mission Tonight
UPDATE 9:00pm Eastern June 24: SpaceX has delayed tonight’s planned launch from 11:30pm to ‘No Earlier Than’ 2:30am Eastern time. ORIGINAL STORY: For the third time in 16 months, SpaceX is readying the most powerful rocket in its fleet—the tripled-cored Falcon Heavy—to launch from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. […] More
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in SpaceFalcon Heavy’s Launch with Arabsat 6A in Spectacular Imagery
SpaceX put on another spectacular show April 11 with the second launch of their triple-barreled Falcon Heavy rocket, delivering the heavy-lift vehicle’s first paying customer to space with the Arabsat-6A satellite. As always, our imagery team set out with a fleet of cameras to capture as many angles as we could. Featured here is some […] More
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in Space, SpaceX, Falcon 9, Launch Complex 39Falcon Heavy Goes Operational; Delivers Arabsat 6A, Successfully Lands All Three Boosters
Just an hour before Florida sunset, SpaceX’s gigantic Falcon Heavy—lauded by the Hawthorne, Calif.-headquartered launch services provider as the world’s most powerful active rocket, by a factor of two—successfully roared aloft tonight (Thursday, 11 April) from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for its long-awaited first commercial mission. Fourteen months after a triumphant […] More
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in SpaceWhere to Watch Wednesday’s Falcon Heavy Launch Locally
Upwards of 100,000+ people are expected to descend upon Florida’s Space Coast on Wednesday, all in anticipation of witnessing the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy, which will fly its first commercial mission for a paying customer from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Liftoff with the Saudi Arabsat-6A satellite is currently scheduled for […] More
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Good Test Fire Clears Next Falcon Heavy for April 9 Launch with Arabsat 6A
Fourteen months since its triumphant maiden voyage, the 27 engines of SpaceX’s mighty Falcon Heavy came to life again today (April 5) for a standard launch practice countdown (dress rehearsal) and Static Test Fire, which now paves way for the beast to soar again as soon as April 9, as it takes flight with its […] More
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Means and the Muscle: Where Does Falcon Heavy Stand Alongside the Heavylifters?
“If you can hear me over the cheering,” intoned SpaceX’s John Insprucker in the seconds after 3:45 p.m. EST Tuesday, 6 February, “Falcon Heavy, heading to space on her test-flight. Building on the history of Saturn V-Apollo, returning Pad 39A to interplanetary missions.” He was right. Last week’s spectacular maiden voyage of the 230-foot-tall (70-meter) behemoth […] More
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Long-Awaited Maiden Voyage of Falcon Heavy Brings Deep-Space Exploration Closer
Riding the plumes of its 27 engines, and carrying the hopes and dreams of a generation, the most powerful rocket in the world took flight earlier today (Tuesday, 6 February), as SpaceX’s mammoth Falcon Heavy conducted its long-awaited maiden test-flight. The “triple niner”—which boasts three Upgraded Falcon 9 booster cores, each equipped with nine Merlin […] More
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in News, KSC, Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, KSCVC, Space Coast, Launch, Flight Test, FH TestThese Are The Best Places to Watch Falcon Heavy’s Debut Next Week
Thousands of space enthusiasts and spectators, as well as around 400 credentialed journalists from around the globe, are flocking to Florida’s “Space Coast” this weekend to witness what will become the world’s most powerful operational rocket, the Falcon Heavy, launch on its maiden voyage no-earlier-than (NET) next week. Counting down to a liftoff attempt on Tuesday, […] More
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Falcon Heavy Roars to Life as Successful Test Fire Paves Way for February Launch Debut
One of the most highly-anticipated rockets in history roared to life for the first time today (Jan 24, 2018) atop its historic launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as SpaceX’s first triple-barreled Falcon Heavy conducted a successful Wet Dress Rehearsal and Static Test Fire of its 27 Merlin engines. America’s newest […] More
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