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Rising against the clear blue Florida sky, the Upgraded Falcon 9 delivers SES-16/GovSat-1 to orbit. In the foreground is the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Photo Credit: Mike Killian/AmericaSpace Six hours shy of six full decades since the launch of America’s first man-made “moon”, a U.S.-built rocket has smoothly delivered SES-16/GovSat-1, one of the […] 
The Upgraded Falcon 9 sprints uphill into crystal-clear Florida skies to deliver KoreaSat-5A to orbit. Photo Credit: SpaceX/Twitter More than a third of all SpaceX launches have occurred in 2017 alone, as the Hawthorne, Calif.-based launch services provider despatched its 16th Upgraded Falcon 9 of the year on Monday afternoon (30 October) to […] 
The SES-10 satellite hitching a ride to orbit on SpaceX’s first reused Falcon-9, which also landed successfully minutes later on the company’s offshore autonomous drone ship. Photo Credit: John Studwell / AmericaSpace History was made this evening (Thursday, 30 March), when SpaceX successfully launched the first “re-used” rocket stage on a second mission […] 
The first “re-used” Upgraded Falcon 9 first stage undergoes a successful Static Fire Test on Monday, 27 March. Launch of the SES-10 mission is targeted for Thursday evening. Photo Credit: SpaceX/Twitter SpaceX seeks to set a raft of new records on Thursday, 30 March, as its launch cadence out of historic Pad […] 
Sunday’s mission will be the second SpaceX launch from historic Pad 39A. Since the end of the Space Shuttle era, the pad has been extensively refurbished, including the construction of a Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) for Upgraded Falcon 9 vehicles and payloads. Photo Credit: SpaceX Just three weeks after triumphantly bringing historic Pad […] 
Powered by its single RD-180 first-stage engine and three solid-fueled boosters, the Atlas V 431 springs away from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-41 at the Cape at 2:13 p.m. EST on Sunday, 18 December. Photo Credit: John Kraus/AmericaSpace Only weeks after passing its 10th anniversary of operations, and just over a year since its […] 
In the middle of the night, SpaceX delivered the JCSAT-16 payload into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), on behalf of SKY Perfect JSAT Group. Photo Credit: Alan Walters/AmericaSpace For the first time in its 14-year history, SpaceX has successfully launched an eighth mission within a single calendar year. Its Upgraded Falcon 9 booster—first flown […] 
Following hard on the heels of 6 May’s JCSAT-14 launch, SpaceX will deliver its second payload for SKY Perfect JSAT Group to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) on Sunday, 14 August. Photo Credit: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace Three weeks after spectacularly bringing its Upgraded Falcon 9 first-stage hardware to a smooth touchdown on Landing […] 
The Upgraded Falcon 9 first stage for the Eutelsat 117 West B and ABS-2A double-deployment mission arrives at Cape Canaveral on 27 May. Photo Credit: SpaceX If all goes according to plan, the morning of Wednesday, 15 June, should bring a pinch of déjà vu for SpaceX, as the Hawthorne, Calif.-headquartered launch services […] 
The Thaicom 8 satellite will be co-located with its sister, Thaicom 5, at 78.5 degrees East longitude. Photo Credit: Orbital ATK For the 25th time in a little under six years, the roar of a Falcon 9 rocket’s Merlin-class engines is expected to echo across Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on Thursday, […] |
 Next Launch CRS-17 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral AFB, FL scheduled for: 30 Apr 19 at 8:22 GMT 30 Apr 19 at 4:22am Eastern 
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