SpaceX confirms the final payload on tonight's Falcon Heavy launch -- Astranis's first MicroGEO communications satellite named Arcturus -- has separated from the rocket.Arcturus will provide internet coverage to Alaska for Pacific Dataport.https://t.co/x0h2tQImUK pic.twitter.com/vu2NEredGR—...
Live coverage of the launch begins around 15 minutes before liftoff, so that’s around 8:20 p.m. ET (5:20 p.m. PT) tonight. You can watch the livestream either onSpaceX’s YouTube pageor using the embedded video above. As is typical with SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rockets, the...
The four Polaris Dawn astronauts are entering their Dragon spacecraft, called Resilience, to prepare for tonight's launch at 3:38 a.m. EDT (0738 GMT). SpaceX operations leads Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon were the first to board the spacecraft as mission specialists, with pilot Scott "Kidd...
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The next-generation satellites will be designed for launch on SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket, which is currently under development. If that development effort runs into snags, SpaceX may come up with an interim solution that would allow the satellites to be launched on the ...
NASA and SpaceX are making final preparations for Crew-8’s flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in a launch targeted for Sunday night. The early part of the mission, including the liftoff, return of the first-stage Falcon 9 booster, and stage separation, will be live-streamed...
SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:26 am EST Sunday morning from Cape Canaveral Air Base in Florida. The rocket carries a Japanese communications satellite, JCSAT-16, which it will put into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The plan is for the first stage rocket booster to land on one...
People in the eastern United States will have an opportunity, weather permitting, to see SpaceX's robotic Dragon capsule launch on a cargo mission to the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Sept. 20).
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Overnight tonight, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket starting a private Japanese lander on a journey to the moon.