NASA and SpaceX launched their "Crew-3" mission from Florida on Wednesday evening (local time), sending another four astronauts to the International Space Station. The SpaceX-built launch vehicle consists of a Crew Dragon capsule perched atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket....
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday, April 28, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX via X) To plan, the Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth for a vertical landing about 8.5 minutes after launch. It...
SpaceX wants to build this futuristic campus in Florida to support an astonishing number of rocket launchesDave Mosher
A Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 Starlink spacecraft to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 8:50 a.m. EDT (1250 GMT), after a one-day weather delay. As is typical for these missions, the first stage of Falcon 9 made a soft landi...
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sept. 10, 2024. Joe Raedle / Getty Images Key Takeaways SpaceX completed the launch of its Polaris Dawn flight Tuesday morning, its latest crewed flight and the first of three in the Polaris...
It's the first SpaceX launch from Florida since a Falcon 9 exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on September 1, 2016.
For reference, the press site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center is a little over three miles away from the launchpads in Florida. It's a little foggy here near Starbase, and SpaceX said that its launch team is "keeping an eye on the weather." ...
On two previous attempts, SpaceX has tried to land its rocket on a boat, butit came down too fast, andon one occasion exploded. This time, they got permission from the Federal Aviation Authority to land at a decommissioned launch site they have leased and repurposed at Cape Canaver...
SpaceX plans to convert a launch pad into a landing pad for the reusable rocket boosters it is developing to power its Falcon family of rockets.
A new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and previously flown Dragon cargo ship stand atop their launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to launch the CRS-17 cargo mission for NASA.(Image credit: SpaceX) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —SpaceX’s next cargo missionto the International Space ...