SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has conducted its second flight on Thursday, carrying its first customer payload – the Arabsat-6A communications satellite into space. Following a delay on Wednesday due to unacceptable Upper Level winds, Falcon Heavy lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at the start of a one hour, 57-minute window that opened at 18:35 Eastern Time (22:35 UTC), taking a little over 34 minutes to deploy its payload into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
SpaceX took a major step towards ending the United States’ human spaceflight gap Saturday, with…
Dragon 2 remains on track for her maiden flight to the International Space Station (ISS)…
SpaceX launched Qatar’s Es’hail-2 spacecraft Thursday, using a Falcon 9 rocket to place the communications…
After several weeks without a launch, SpaceX is returning to action, conducting the static fire…
Teams from NASA, SpaceX, and the Department of Defense recently completed medical emergency training at…
SpaceX’s launch manifest for the remainder of 2018 is beginning to take shape. The company…
SpaceX is finishing its years-long campaign to return Launch Pad 39A to crew operations. Following…
The Space Launch System (SLS) Mobile Launcher (ML) has conducted a major milestone, as it…
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…
In a year that should see both SpaceX and Boeing conduct the uncrewed test flights…
SpaceX has launched with the debuting of an upgraded payload fairing for the Falcon 9…
SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket for the US military Thursday, carrying the X-37B spaceplane…
With just one year to go until the scheduled completion of all uncrewed and crewed…
Engineers have begun to install the new Flame Deflector into the Flame Trench of Pad…
Arianespace has conducted the fourth Ariane 5 launch of the year with the lofting of…
SpaceX launched Bulgaria’s first communications satellite on Friday – the first of two Falcon 9…
SpaceX has conducted a static fire test on the next Falcon 9 to launch from…
A major milestone in the build-up to the maiden launch of the Space Launch System has…