SpaceX launched Qatar’s Es’hail-2 spacecraft Thursday, using a Falcon 9 rocket to place the communications satellite into orbit. Falcon lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at the start of a 101-minute window that opened at 15:46 Eastern Time (20:46 UTC). Thursday’s mission used a flight-proven Falcon 9 booster, making its second mission.
SpaceX is finishing its years-long campaign to return Launch Pad 39A to crew operations. Following…
Just two weeks after the announcement of the NASA astronauts who will fly the company’s…
Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is preparing for a return to crew…
SpaceX launched its first re-used Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 on Saturday, beginning the…
SpaceX has conducted its first launch from the Kennedy Space Center since the end of…
A moment nearly six years in the making. Fire and flame returned to the historic…
SpaceX has officially announced a mission swap, resulting in the Falcon 9 launch of the…
Following the loss of its Falcon 9 rocket during a static fire test, SpaceX is…
The recently recovered Falcon 9 first stage (F9-0024-S1) has arrived inside SpaceX’s Pad 39A Horizontal…
SpaceX has conducted a rollout of its giant Transporter/Erector strongback system at the Kennedy Space…
SpaceX’s new rocket system, the Falcon Heavy, is continuing preparations for her 2015 debut, with…
SpaceX has confirmed it is now into the construction phase of converting Kennedy Space Center’s…
Launch Pad 39A – vacated since the end of the Space Shuttle Program (SSP) –…
The mothballed Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) began looking towards the future…
Endeavour’s highly advanced payload arrived at Pad 39A on Monday evening, as STS-134 continues to…
Just a day after the fleet leader, Discovery, landed at the nearby Shuttle Landing Facility…
Discovery has completed her journey back out to Pad 39A with her modified External Tank…
In what is highly likely to be her final rollout, Discovery – as the STS-133…
STS-132’s weather-delayed rollout to Pad 39A began at 23:31 local time on Wednesday, following three…