Byline: Niamh Lyons Political CorrespondentDaily Mail (London)
For some launches, the first stage of the Falcon rocket will return and land back at Cape Canaveral about eight minutes after liftoff. Landings take place at Landing Zone 1, which used to be called Launch Complex 13 (28.486 N, 80.545 W), used from the 1950s-70s. As the pad is about ...
The Falcon Heavy's two strap-on side boosters shut down and peeled away two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff and flew back to staggered side-by-side landings at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The expendable central core booster continued firing another minute and a half before it, ...
November: Blue Origin will launch its New Glenn rocket from Launch Complex 36 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket stands about 322 feet (98 meters) tall and can send 50 tons (45 metric tons) to low Earth orbit, and will be Blue Origin's first orbital rocket. The company is now in...
SpaceX knocked out the 11th launch from the Space Coast for the year under clear blue skies on Tuesday afternoon. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:11 p.m. carrying the Merah Putih 2 telecommunications satellite for Telkom ...
United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur launched on its first-ever flight, called Cert-1, early this morning (Jan. 8), from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Vulcan lifted off at 2:18 a.m. EST (0718 GMT), when the rocket's two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) and ...
Relativity Space's Terran 1 rocket on the launch pad at Launch Complex 16 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 10, 2023. /CFP Relativity Space, an aerospace startup that carried out the first test flight of a 3D-printed rocket, announced Wednesday that it will focus o...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on March 02, 2023 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronaut Warren Hoburg, NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen and UAE (United Arab...
Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida for an Aug. 26, 2023 liftoff. They are, from left: Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Russia; European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen; NASA astronaut Jasmin Mog...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 56 of the company's Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on March 29, 2023. (Image credit: SpaceX) It was the fourth launch and landing for this particular booster, SpaceX wrote in a mission description. The Falcon...