SpaceX leadership repeatedly stressed the experimental nature of the launch and said any result that involved Starship getting off the launchpad would be a success. The rocket flew for nearly 4 minutes andsuccessfully separatedfrom the Super Heavy booster, a key in-flight milestone, before suffering...
"The purpose of the countdown is to catch potential issues prior to flight. There are a thousand ways a launch could go wrong and only one way it can go right," Michael Andrews, a SpaceX supply chain supervisor, said during the launch's livestream. People watch from Playalinda Beach at...
For viewers at home, SpaceX will start a live broadcast of the countdown about a half-hour before liftoff. The launch window is 5 to 5:30 p.m. ET. The livestream feed will be available onSpaceX's website, and updates will beposted on X, the social platform also owned by Musk. ...
Time for SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to fly: Watch live video of the final countdown CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The maiden launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is arguably the biggest thing to hit NASA’s Kennedy Space Center since the retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2011. R...
Dragon hatch closed for Crew-9 launch The hatch to SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft has been closed for today's Crew-9 astronaut launch as the countdown continues for a planned 1:17 pm ET (1517 GMT) liftoff. It does appear to be raining at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space ...
EDT launch of the private Polaris Dawn mission, with weather still posing a concern. So far, the launch countdown appears to have gone smoothly, though SpaceX's video livestream (which the company is streaming exclusively on X) is experiencing repeatedly buffering and stalling, interrupting ...
Watch live coverage onCBSNthis Saturday, May 30. Launch is scheduled for 3:22 p.m. EDT. Opening a new chapter in American spaceflight, two veteran space shuttle fliers will blaze a fresh trail to orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Saturday, weather permitting — the first launch...
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Particularly cool was the footage of the stage separation two-and-a-half minutes after launch. While SpaceX usually livestreams this part via a camera attached to the Falcon 9’s upper stage, this time it captured the separation using a powerful ground camera. You can see the footage below...
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