SpaceX reports the Falcon 9, Dragon spacecraft and the Polaris Dawn crew are all go for launch, with only the weather posing a concern for launch tonight. Suit leak checks are underway. September 10, 2024 at 12:54 PM Polaris Dawn astronauts enter Dragon (Image credit: SpaceX) The four...
SpaceX is getting ready to launch its mighty Starship on its fifth test flight, scheduled for Sunday, October 13. With a mostly-successful fourth test flight behind it, the Starship has already been into orbit and returned to Earth mostly intact. This time, SpaceX will be hoping to catch ...
But the company stood down from that launch to focus on the landing mishap. Both of this morning's Starlink missions — the one that flew and the one that didn't — were relatively late additions to SpaceX's launch schedule. The company didn't publicly announce them until after it had ...
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#LaunchAmerica pic.twitter.com/iUqPo0ZfEX— NASA (@NASA) November 15, 2020 7:00 a.m. 14:09:05, November 16, 2020 Weather is looking good From CNN Business' Jackie Wattles Forecasters expected a 50-50 chance that the weather would stay clear enough to allow tonight’s launch to ...
SpaceX has called off the launch of the highly anticipated Polaris Dawn mission for the second day in a row, but this time it has not set a new schedule. In a messageposted on social mediaon Tuesday evening about five hours before a Falcon 9 rocket carrying four passengers was due to ...
“If the schedule’s long, it’s wrong,” he told a crowd of journalists, employees and fans. “If it’s tight, it’s right.” SpaceX’s Starship Mk1 prototype stands alongside a first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket, which had its first successful orbital launch in 2008. If yo...
With 9 hours delay, and no set launch window since it is a test jump, the thrill is gone. I might have a look tomorrow to see how many days there are until the next schedule launch attempt then. Don’t sit up waiting tonight, honey. ...
Just north of Boca Chica, here on South Padre Island, spectators gathered by the hundreds this morning to watch the launch. They cheered as the orange light from Starship's 33 first-stageRaptorengines blazed through its plume of exhaust as the huge rocket began its climb. Standing nearly 400...