Gearing up for their second Vandenberg flight in as many months, SpaceX has static fired the Falcon 9 that will lift an extremely light-weight Taiwanese satellite to orbit next week. The static fire, a key step in every Falcon 9 launch campaign, paves the way for the launch of Formosat-5 on Thursday, 24 August at 11:50 PDT from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, ahead of a first stage landing on the ASDS “Just Read The Instructions”.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made its twenty-fifth flight – and its second of the month…
The Falcon 9 first stage that successfully landed on the deck of the Autonomous Spaceport Drone…
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft returned to flight Friday with the CRS-8 resupply mission to the International…
SpaceX successfully conducted a second attempt to launch its Falcon 9 rocket, tasked with sending…
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the first West Coast return-to-launch-site mission Sunday. The launch,…
SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket conducted its Static Fire test on Tuesday, ahead of is…
Blue Origin is making the final preparations for crewed spaceflight in West Texas. Meanwhile, at…
SpaceX launched its second mission in two months for Telesat Canada Sunday, with a Falcon…
SpaceX has successfully static fired its latest Falcon 9 booster ahead of what was to…
SpaceX kept up its impressive launch pace as the company reused its first Block 5…
SpaceX successfully launched the seventh of eight planned missions for Iridium Communications from California’s Vandenberg…
SpaceX conducted their thirteenth launch of the year Sunday, with a Falcon 9 rocket deploying…
Begining July 22nd, SpaceX is currently scheduled to perform three Falcon 9 droneship recoveries, a…
Just over two weeks after their previous launch, SpaceX is again preparing their Falcon 9…
With the first half of 2018 in the books, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance’s near…
On May 11th, SpaceX successfully launched a Block 5 Falcon 9 – the final major…
SpaceX has conducted the debut launch of the final variant of its powerhouse Falcon 9…
The first Block 5 Falcon 9 completed a static fire test at Launch Complex 39A…
With its two April launches behind it, SpaceX is deep into processing for its coming…