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...
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 ...
Be sure to check SpaceX’ssocial media feedfor any late changes to the schedule that could be caused by technical or weather issues. Editors’ Recommendations SpaceX won’t be launching its big Starship test flight today after all How to watch SpaceX’s seventh Starship launch on Thursday Wa...
Dragon separation. SpaceX’s reusable supply ship separated from the Falcon 9 rocket 12 minutes after launch tonight, starting a 36-hour transit to the International Space Station. The US military’s Space Test Program payload is visible in Dragon’s trunk.https://t.co/DKmD70YVyppic.twitter....
Space Station from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.Joe Skipper / REUTERSMonitoring the automated ascent from inside the Crew Dragon "Freedom" were commander Nick Hague, a veteran NASA astronaut, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, making his first flight.Crew Dragonsnormally launch with...
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 ...
The space agency launched its first Artemis mission last year, sending an unpiloted Orion capsule around the moon and back in the maiden flight of the Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket. The Artemis 2 mission, sending three NASA astronauts and a Canadian flier on a similar around-the-moon...
But even before it reaches the final P/2 orbit, the spacecraft will be ready to begin its science operations. About six to eight days after launch, after the health of the spacecraft is confirmed, the science instruments will be turned on, including four wide-field cameras to scan the sk...
“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...
As dramatic as the Falcon Heavy’s first flight will be, it’s just the beginning for the rocket and SpaceX. Even if the Falcon Heavy fails on its first test, it won’t be the end of the program, and it may not hurt SpaceX's ambitious Falcon 9 launch schedule in 2018. ...