SpaceX conducted its final launch of 2017 Friday, with a Falcon 9 lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base to deploy ten more Iridium-NEXT communications satellites. The launch, which occurred at 17:27:23 Pacific Time (01:27 UTC on Saturday), took place 61 seconds after a Japanese H-IIA rocket is lifted off on the other side of the Pacific.
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SpaceX took a step into the future Thursday as it reused – for the first…
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SpaceX achieved another milestone on Friday when it conducted a Static Fire test on the…
SpaceX rolled out its Falcon 9 rocket for a static fire that was conducted on…
For the two commercial companies contracted with NASA for cargo resupply of the International Space Station,…
SpaceX is deep into an internal mishap investigation following the loss during First Stage flight of…
What was once thought to be a pipe dream of having a reusable system of…
SpaceX successfully launched its seventh Dragon resupply mission en route to the International Space Station…
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SpaceX’s reusability aspirations will receive further testing at Spaceport America, in the shape of the…
Nearly fifteen years after its originally planned launch date, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
SpaceX has launched the second Dragon mission of 2014, with a Falcon 9 v1.1 lofting…
Making their fourth orbital launch of the year, the SpaceX team have conducted another Falcon…
SpaceX made a fourth – and successful – attempt to launch its Falcon 9 v1.1…
When SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket last April, most eyes were on the…