Volume 14; Issue 231 ~ Zero-G News (ISSN 2333-7257) ~ A Publication Of Ares Institute, Inc.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Demonstrating SpaceX”s ramped-up two missions per month launch rate, the company successfully launched the Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 spacecraft on its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center today. Once again, Falcon flew from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), lifting off at 7:21 pm EDT. Falcon 9 / Inmarsat-5 F4 Launch Pad Remote And Press Site
Thursday, March 16, 2017
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket successfully orbited the EchoStar XXIII to Geostationary Transfer Orbit this morning, marking the company’s second flight from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Following a slight delay during the countdown, Falcon...
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Nearly five years after the final space shuttle mission blasted off and forty four years since the last humans left Earth to set foot on the Moon, Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A was again the focus...
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Four and a half months after a devastating explosion destroyed a $200 million dollar satellite and much of its Cape Canaveral launch complex, a SpaceX Falcon 9 blasted into space today on an all-important return-to-flight mission that successfully...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
NASA took another big step to ensure reliable crew transportation to the International Space Station into the next decade. The agency’s Commercial Crew Program has awarded an additional four crew rotation missions each to commercial partners, Boeing...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Four months after a massive fireball destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket, its Amos 6 communications satellite payload and much of Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX aims to return its flagship launch vehicle to flight on January 8....
Friday, September 23, 2016
(Editor’s Note: This is an update provided to Zero-G News by SpaceX on September 23,2016) – Three weeks ago, SpaceX experienced an anomaly at our Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This resulted...
Monday, July 18, 2016
Instruments to perform the first-ever DNA sequencing in space, and the first international docking adapter for commercial spacecraft, are among the cargo scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station after Monday’s launch of the SpaceX Commercial...
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Nearly six months after a space station resupply mission disintegrated in the sky above Cape Canaveral, SpaceX plans to return to flight the Falcon 9 launch vehicle as early as December 19, according to company CEO Elon...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
Emergency management: A behind the scenes look on the Eastern Range
Last week, the 45th Space Wing’s Incident Management Team responded to the Falcon 9 Static Test Fire anomaly on Space Launch Complex 40. The explosion occurred Sept. 1 at approximately 9:07 a.m. as many of us were...