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.
With last Friday’s successful launch of CRS-13, SpaceX marked its fiftieth orbital launch. The milestone…
SpaceX launched a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket Friday, deploying a Dragon spacecraft on the CRS-13…
While SpaceX continues to investigate a payload fairing issue, the company’s only two confirmed December…
A major question for SpaceX’s end of year manifest appears to be gaining some answers…
SpaceX has launched the Koreasat-5A communications satellite for South Korea’s KT SAT on Monday, with…
Iridium Communications – in the midst of launching their next generation communications constellation – has…
SpaceX’s CRS-10 resupply mission has enjoyed a smooth period following its somewhat eventful berthing to…
