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[ March 30, 2026 ] Falcon 9 booster launches for record 34th time on Starlink delivery mission Falcon 9

Video: Zoomed in view of ignition of Falcon 9 engines in prelaunch test (members only)

January 25, 2019 Spaceflight Now

Watch a zoomed in view of the Falcon 9 rocket with the first Crew Dragon capsule atop, briefly fire its engines for a crucial pre-launch test on Jan. 24, 2019 at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.

Video: Falcon 9 with Crew Dragon briefly ignites engines (members only)

January 24, 2019 Spaceflight Now

Watch as a Falcon 9 rocket with the first Crew Dragon capsule atop, briefly fired its engines for a crucial pre-launch test on Jan. 24, 2019.

Watch live views of launch pad 39A in Florida (members only)

January 22, 2019 Stephen Clark

Spaceflight Now members can watch live views of launch pad 39A in Florida as SpaceX gears up for the first orbital test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Q&A with Tim Ellis, CEO and co-founder of Relativity Space (members only)

January 17, 2019 Stephen Clark

Relativity Space’s co-founder and chief executive says his company is working on innovations in manufacturing and rocket technology, and plans to use 3D printing at unprecedented scale in the space industry to ease access to space for a range of satellite operators, joining a fray of smallsat launchers saturating the market.

Time-lapse: The Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon roll to the launch pad (members only)

January 7, 2019 Spaceflight Now

In this time-lapse video, the Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon atop rolls to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center for the first time on January 3. The rocket was then lifted vertical for a series of fit checks and tests.

Live from launch pad 39A (members only)

January 1, 2019 Spaceflight Now

A live view of launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center where SpaceX is preparing for a test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft without astronauts aboard.

Video: Marc Buie, New Horizons Occultation Team Lead (members only)

December 31, 2018 Spaceflight Now

Marc Buie, Occultation Team Lead, reveals what we know so far about the shape of Ultima Thule as New Horizons races towards its encounter with the Kuiper Belt object.

Video: Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager, previews Ultima Thule flyby (members only)

December 30, 2018 Stephen Clark

New Horizons’s mission operations manager Alice Bowman previews the spacecraft’s New Year’s Day encounter with Ultima Thule in the Kuiper Belt, a distant zone of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Watch SpaceX’s crew access arm swing back (members only)

December 20, 2018 Spaceflight Now

The crew access arm at launch complex 39A swings back and the strong back is raised upright in this time-lapse video which runs at 100 times normal speed.

Live view of the Falcon 9 at pad 40 (members only)

December 18, 2018 Stephen Clark

Spaceflight Now members can watch a live view of the Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad as SpaceX counts down to launch of the GPS 3 SV01 navigation satellite