SpaceX launched Ireland's first satellite and a South Korean reconnaissance satellite today. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched at 1:19 p.m. EST (1819 GMT or 10:10 a.m. PST) from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the California coast. The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landed at ...
SpaceX launched NASA's planetary defense mission, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday. The mission is an attempt to understand how to deflect an asteroid off a collision course toward ...
SpaceX put its first two prototype Starlink broadband satellites into orbit along with a Spanish radar imaging satellite today. The launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California came at 6:17 a.m. PT Thursday, 24 hours after strong upper-level winds forced a postponement of the first att...
Six of the cell-capable satellites were among a batch of 21 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 7:44 p.m. PT Tuesday. The satellites were deployed successfully, and the rocket’s first-stage booster made a routine landing on a drone ship in the Pa...
A Falcon 9 rocket launched two Earth-observation satellites for the company Maxar today (May 2) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 2:36 p.m. EDT (1836 GMT; 11:36 a.m. local California time). It was the 20th mission for this rocket's first stage, tying a record that...
Today, SpaceX is scheduled to launch a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Liftoff is currently scheduled for 3:47 PM ET (12:47 PM PT). The payload includes five Iridum NEXT communication satellites and a pair of Earth-observing satellites called GR...
“Today’s vote hasn’t changed the [Department of the Air Force’s] or Vandenberg’s unwavering commitment to preserving the California coastline and the precious species that reside there,” Ravi Chaudhary, assistant secretary of the Air Force for energy, installations and environment, said in ...
On February 22, 2018, SpaceX successfully launched the first two Starlink test satellites (named Tintin A and Tintin B) from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California.SpaceX The number of satellites shot into orbit is about to rocket. And astronomers are none too happy about it. Elon Musk...
With the Space Force flight safely on its way, SpaceX engineers on the West Coast attempted to launch 22 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base northwest of Los Angeles. But SpaceX called off that flight at the end of its launch window. ...
SpaceX live stream: How and when to watch the Falcon 9 “Starlink” launch Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch a recycled Falcon 9 rocket this morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California. It's the company's first advertisement ...