Photos: Falcon 9 blasts off in thick Fog, lifting Jason-3 into Orbit
Making its second launch from the West Coast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-4E on Sunday, successfully delivering
Read moreMaking its second launch from the West Coast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-4E on Sunday, successfully delivering
Read moreSpaceX can celebrate another successful mission, launching their Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday for its second west-coast mission – successfully placing into orbit the Jason-3 oceanography satellite in a U.S.-European collaboration.
Read moreSpaceX was not able to achieve the company’s next milestone on Sunday when their Falcon 9 first stage booster came in hot and made a hard landing in the latest attempt to fly the rocket to the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship located in the Pacific Ocean.
Read moreTimeline and Flight Data Reconstruction for the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of the Jason-3 satellite, Sunday, January 17, 2016
Read moreMaking its second launch from the West Coast, a SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from SLC-4E on Sunday, successfully delivering the Jason-3 satellite to orbit after a 56-minute ascent mission to begin a mission dedicated to the continuation of a two-decade record of Ocean Altimetry, tracking currents and winds across the world’s oceans.
Read moreThe final Falcon 9 v1.1 rockets stands tall atop its West Coast launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force base to await its liftoff with the Jason-3 satellite.
Read moreA fully assembled Falcon 9 rocket has been rolled to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base for the first time in over two years for Sunday’s planned launch of the U.S.-European Jason-3 Oceanography Satellite.
Read moreJason-3: Pre-Launch News Conferences
Read moreSpaceX is gearing up for the company’s first launch from the U.S. West Coast in over two years, also coinciding with the final mission of the Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle version – tasked with lifting the U.S.-European Jason-3 oceanography satellite.
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