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…
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…
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…
Endeavour’s highly advanced payload arrived at Pad 39A on Monday evening, as STS-134 continues to…
In what is highly likely to be her final rollout, Discovery – as the STS-133…
The STS-129 stack has completed rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Pad 39A…
Atlantis has rolled back out to Pad 39A for her re-aligned STS-125 mission to the…
Space shuttle Endeavour has been escorted on a mini tour of the Kennedy Space Center…
With less than a day to go before the lift-off of STS-117, Shuttle Atlantis is…
This week got off to a flying start when new science experiments and cargo were…
Blue Origin tested its second human-rated New Shepard capsule this week, which had been delayed…
SpaceX has launched a mission that will not only see humans travel the farthest away…
The Hubble Space Telescope continues to operate to this day in part due to the…
Blue Origin has sent another crew of six to space with the launch of their…
