Video: Falcon 9 fires up engines for static fire test (members only)

A new weather observatory that will track storms across the globe as it orbits from pole to pole has been trucked to its launch site in California for a long-awaited ascent into space this November.

Watch a 4K video replay of the first Falcon Heavy launch as viewed from the Kennedy Space Center Press Site around 3 miles from pad 39A.

An Israeli-built moon lander aiming to become the first privately-funded mission reach another planetary body rocketed away from Cape Canaveral on Thursday night aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, riding piggyback with an Indonesian communications spacecraft and an experimental U.S. Air Force space surveillance microsatellite.