For the first time, SpaceX will launch the astronaut flight from its original Florida launch pad: Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It will be the first-ever crewed launch from the pad. You canwatch the Crew-9 launch live on Space.com, starting at 9:10...
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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...
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...
[UPDATE: Weather concerns have prompted the mission team to pause the countdown clock. It’s now targeting 5:23 a.m. ET for launch, nearly two hours later than originally planned. However, a final decision has yet to be made.]
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, right, walk toward the stage for a countdown clock briefing for the SpaceX Demo-2 mission Friday, May 29, 2020, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The Falcon 9, with the Crew Dragon s...
During Thursday’s countdown, SpaceX’s launch team turned over control of the Falcon 9 countdown to an automated computer sequencer 35 minutes before liftoff. About a million pounds of super-chilled, densified kerosene and liquid oxygen were pumped into the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket ah...
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The team then seamlessly transitioned launch operations into a countdown rehearsal and stopped the clock just prior to ignition. After an investigation, engineers determined the problem was a frozen pressure valve. SpaceX officials later announced they'd be ready to try again Thursday, April 20. ...
The countdown at the Florida launch site proceeded smoothly until nine seconds from lift-off. The first sign that something was wrong came when the clock inexplicably stopped. A short while later,SpaceXprincipal integration engineer John Insprucker, who was presenting live coverage of the mission ...