Live coverage: Kennedy Space Center to reopen Friday

Watch in 4K video was SpaceX test-fires a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of an upcoming in-flight test of the Crew Dragon’s emergency escape rockets.

The update comes after NASA said it and Boeing completed ground hot fire testing of a reaction control system (RCS) to better understand some of the in-flight anomalies seen during the spacecraft’s rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station.

On the eve of the launch of his country’s first communications satellite on a Falcon 9 rocket, the chief executive of BulgariaSat credited SpaceX’s cost-cutting ways with making space accessible for small nations and money-conscious companies like his own.