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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In what has already been a busy year for SpaceX, the commercial launch provider is…
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base Monday, before succcessfully deploying…
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SpaceX launched its fortieth Falcon 9 Thursday, carrying the Formosat-5 spacecraft for the Taiwan’s National…
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Gearing up for their second Vandenberg flight in as many months, SpaceX has static fired…
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Just over two days after its successful launch of BulgariaSat-1, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket conducted…
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With NASA’s management officially informing the workforce that evaluations are taking place into installing a…
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SpaceX returned its Falcon 9 rocket to flight Saturday with a mission that delivered ten…
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EuropeanUncrewed
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The recently recovered Falcon 9 first stage (F9-0024-S1) has arrived inside SpaceX’s Pad 39A Horizontal…
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SpaceX launched an international ocean research mission Sunday via its Falcon 9 rocket, the final…
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket returned to flight Monday, on a mission for communications firm Orbcomm…
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SpaceX’s aspirations towards recovering launched Falcon 9 first stages are continuing to focus on ocean…
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CommercialUncrewed
DSCOVR and Recover: SpaceX chase the cigar with next Falcon 9 mission
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The mystery behind the “floating platform” – set to welcome home a returning Falcon 9…
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NASA has confirmed a December 16 placeholder for the Falcon 9 v1.1 launch of the…
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United Launch Alliance (ULA) conducted a commercial Atlas V launch on Wednesday on behalf of…
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Following the recent success of the Falcon 9 launch with six ORBCOMM spacecraft, SpaceX is…
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Minor issues with elements of the International Space Station (ISS) Life Support hardware continue to…