Iridium Communications announced on Thursday the company reached an agreement with SpaceX for the use of flight-proven boosters on the next two launches supporting the Iridium-NEXT constellation in order to keep up the pace of their fleet replacement
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SpaceX’s two Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships have returned to their home ports on the East and West Coast of the United States after catching Falcon 9 boosters earlier this week.
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SpaceX successfully launched its third re-flown Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, lifting off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral at sunset with the SES 11 broadcasting satellite.
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A ‘flight-proven’ SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida’s Launch Complex 39A at 22:53 UTC on October 11, 2017 carrying the SES 11 satellite into Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
Read moreA ‘flight-proven’ SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida’s Launch Complex 39A at 22:53 UTC on October 11, 2017 carrying the SES 11 satellite into Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was moved to Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on Tuesday and took its vertical launch position in the afternoon hours in preparation for a liftoff at sunset on Wednesday.
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The launch was visible from a large stretch of the south-western United States and video captured by onlookers shows the spectacular display put on by the rocket’s first and second stages as they parted ways some 70 Kilometers in altitude
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Continuing to move at a brisk pace through launch manifests on both coasts of the United States, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, thundering off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base before sunrise to dispatch the third group of Iridium-NEXT communications satellites into orbit.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:37:01 UTC on Monday, October 9, 2017 to dispatch the third group of ten Iridium-NEXT communications satellites into orbit.
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Setting up for a Falcon 9 double header, SpaceX successfully conducted its second Static Fire Test of the week on Thursday at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base in preparation for an early morning liftoff on Monday
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SpaceX has delayed the launch of a ‘flight-proven’ Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SES 11 broadcasting satellite from its original Saturday launch date to no-earlier-than Wednesday, October 11 in response to an issue discovered on the previously flown first stage.
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SpaceX test fired a previously flown Falcon 9 booster on its Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad on Monday in preparation for the company’s third re-use mission aiming for liftoff on Saturday.
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SpaceX CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk provided on update on the company’s proposed Interplanetary Transport System (ITS) and BFR Rocket on Friday
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 blasted into partly cloudy skies over Cape Canaveral on Thursday, carrying into orbit the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B winged space plane on a mostly classified mission to test out new technologies in space and perform a range of experiments out of public view as part of the program’s fifth flight to space.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 14:00 UTC on September 7, 2017 – carrying into orbit the fifth mission of the U.S. Air Force X-37B space plane.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A at 14:00 UTC on September 7, 2017 – carrying into orbit the fifth mission of the U.S. Air Force X-37B space plane.
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Keeping up the pace, SpaceX checked off the Static Fire Test for the company’s 13th launch of the year, aiming for a September 7 liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center with the U.S. Air Force X-37B space plane heading off on its fifth mission.
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